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Jurie Els did not turn his back on SA

Johannesburg – Jurie Els launched his latest CD Voorbegin... Vat-Vat 5 and autobiographyVer van Vrede at the Queens Corner shopping centre in Pretoria on Sunday.

"My publishers, Naledi, asked me to launch my two new products in South Africa," said Els.

Els and his wife Hestrie Cloete currently live in New Zealand.

Crime and potholes

Els said that he and his wife still love South Africa's people and that they did not turn their back on the country.

"I turned my back on crime and potholes," he said about the move to New Zealand.

Els explained that his family did not join him on his tour, "I did not want to disrupt Hestrie and the children's lives... We miss each other very much."

Els will return to New Zealand on July 3.

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