Top news items in major S. African media outlets

The following are highlights of major South African media outlets on Monday.

-- A new tax compliance status system that is expected to speed up the process of obtaining tax clearance certificates from the South African Revenue Service (SARS) comes into effect on Monday.

Businesses are required to submit tax clearance certificates when they apply for a government tender, to confirm that the business or person is in good standing. Individual tax payers need the certificate to show that they are tax compliant when they emigrate from South Africa. (Business Day).

-- President Jacob Zuma has promised voters that a vote for the ANC would also mean "a vote for the Constitution of South Africa".

"The ANC remains committed to the assertion in the Freedom Charter that South Africa belongs to all who live in it, black and white," Zuma said at the ANC's manifesto launch on Saturday.(Mail & Guardian).

-- A huge civil suit against President Jacob Zuma, three Cabinet members and the national police commissioner is giving renewed impetus to sensational allegations that senior government leaders and secret intelligence agents were involved in the creation of a new trade union that was apparently intended to lure mine workers, particularly in the platinum industry, away from the Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (AMCU). (City Press). Endit