Top news items in S. African major media outlets

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

-- Letters of reprimand from President Jacob Zuma to Cabinet ministers involved in the overspending at Nkandla were delivered last week, sparking outrage from opposition parties, which described them as "useless" and "a joke".

The Constitutional Court ordered last month that Mr Zuma comply with remedial action in the public protector's 2014 report into overspending on security upgrades at his private Nkandla residence. The action included that he "reprimand the ministers involved for the appalling manner in which the Nkandla project was handled and state funds were abused". (Business Day).

-- It is proving tough for the New Development Bank to fill the position of African Regional Centre director-general - the job that former finance minister Nhlanhla Nene was apparently nominated for.

This week, the bank readvertised the position on its website on the same day that Nene was appointed to the board of Allan Gray as a nonexecutive director.

City Press).

-- Parliament on Sunday strongly rejected reports by two Sunday newspapers claiming that "Parliament blows R1-million on a jaunt to London".

The reports were "sensational, baseless, and calculated to besmirch and damage the name of the institution, its administration, and the good names of the officials cited", it said in a statement.(Mail & Guardian). Endit