1.   Task teams are also created to help management deal with problems.

2.   A board managing the new Medicines Regulatory Authority would have the power to question decisions by the committees, the task team proposed.

3.   A government-appointed task team recommended Tuesday that the panel that regulates medicines in South Africa should be replaced by a new board.

4.   A second task team headed by deputy secretary general Marthinus van Schalkwyk would concentrate on party growth and effectiveness, de Klerk said.

5.   A task team headed by Environment Minister Dawie de Villiers would work out a land-use strategy for the greater St. Lucia area, it said.

6.   Earlier Thursday, a Northwest Province legislative committee set up a negotiation task team to investigate the causes of the racial clashes.

7.   Five special task teams had started working to come up with recommendations within this month on corrective economic measures.

8.   Following those talks, the ministers will join expanded task teams followed by a reception to be attended by US Trade Representative Mickey Kantor.

9.   Frederik van Zyl Slabbert, who chairs the Kwazulu-Natal electoral task team overseeing the organisation of the poll and his deputy, Kehla Shubani, will also be members.

10.   He warned rugby administrators to cooperate fully with the task team or face a full-blown judicial commission of inquiry.