31.   Two sophisticated international crime syndicates operating out of South Africa have been smashed by police, national police commissioner George Fivaz said here Thursday.

32.   Police have smashed a gang headed by a police officer who were smuggling Egyptian artifacts, the official news agency MENA said Wednesday.

33.   South African police have smashed a gun-running syndicate which allegedly stole arms from the defence force and sold them to criminals, a police spokesman said Thursday.