Top news items in major S. African news outlets

The following are news highlights in major South African media outlets on Saturday.

-- The Department of Mineral Resources blindsided the mining industry on Friday, releasing a draft revised mining charter that demands a perpetual minimum of 26% black ownership per mining right. (Business Day).

-- The postponement of sentencing hearing in the Oscar Pistorius murder case will be heard on Monday in the North Gauteng High Court in Pretoria, the office of the chief justice announced Friday tonight.

During the hearing, which is expected to last between 30 minutes and an hour, the sentencing proceedings of the disgraced Olympian will be formally postponed to June 13. (City Press).

-- Ruling ANC secretary general Gwede Mantashe took a swipe at Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng on Friday for publicly discussing the Constitutional Court judgment on the Nkandla matter.

Addressing the media ahead of the party's manifesto launch in Port Elizabeth on Saturday, Mantashe warned that the judiciary's conduct will open a debate. Mantashe's said that Mogoeng's continuous utterances about the judgment would attract responses from politicians that may be interpreted as an attack on the judiciary. (Mail & Guardian) Enditem