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Top news items in major S. African news outlets

Xinhua, April 26, 2016 Adjust font size:

The following are highlights of South Africa's major media outlets on Tuesday.

-- Former president Thabo Mbeki on Monday cautiously weighed in on calls for President Jacob Zuma to be recalled or resign from office.

In a rare comment on the state of the country, Mr Mbeki said SA needed to discuss how to arrest the current decline, intimating that if this led to a call for the removal of Mr Zuma, then "let that be". (Business Day).

-- President Jacob Zuma has ordered the Special Investigating Unit to probe how a little-known firm of consulting engineers received water and sanitation contracts worth hundreds of millions of rands without tendering for the jobs.

In terms of the proclamation gazetted last week, the unit will investigate the appointment of LTE Consulting by Lepelle Northern Water. (City Press)

-- Hundreds of workers from Gupta family-owned Oakbay Investments will on Tuesday march to the banks in an effort to save their jobs.

The operations of Oakbay were thrown into jeopardy after South Africa's four main banks closed accounts of businesses owned by the controversial family.(Mail & Guardian). Enditem