Top news items in major S. African media outlets

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

-- MTN lost 4.5-million subscribers in Nigeria as it moved to comply with the government's demand that it properly registers its customers.

Last year, Nigeria fined MTN 1,000 U.S. dollars for each of 5.2-million subscribers not properly identified, in the country's drive to prevent Boko Haram militants using cellphones to co-ordinate attacks and buy arms.(Business Day).

-- The public works department has learnt from Nkandla and had already implemented all the remedial actions of the Public Protector, Minister Thulas Nxesi told Parliament Wednesday.

Delivering his budget vote, Nxesi said that to prevent a repeat of Nkandla, a turnaround strategy was also in place with a "zero tolerance of fraud and corruption".(City Press).

-- Rhodes University has laid an interdict against students and the Student Representative Council following increasingly violent protests on the campus this week that saw five students arrested on Wednesday.

The university's academic activities had been suspended until Monday. The university applied for the interdict at the Grahamstown High Court, and included people "engaging in unlawful activities" as well as those "associating themselves" with such activities.(Mail & Guardian). Endit