Top news items in major S. African media outlets

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

-- A damning forensic report about financial wrongdoing at controversial Auction Alliance has implicated a string of auctioneers, liquidators, attorneys, bank officials and prominent individuals in hundreds of millions of rand of secret commission payments.

Although some similar transactions have been reported in the past, the forensic report, a copy of which Business Day has seen, shows how they were only the tip of the iceberg involving financial wrongdoing at the firm. (Business Day)

-- Anyone among the ANC's top six officials could have leaked a report that accused Mpumalanga premier, David Mabuza, of being an apartheid spy.

Former ANC treasurer-general Mathews Phosa, who is being sued by Mabuza for R10 million in the Northern Gauteng High Court, said the leak made him feel "betrayed". (City Press)

-- Aurora mine bosses Khulubuse Zuma and Zondwa Mandela could face criminal charges and a multimillion-rand lawsuit after they lost an appeal against a high court judgment that found them personally liable for the collapse of two mines.

However, an unperturbed Zuma remained defiant, maintaining that he was innocent and that the ruling of the high court in Pretoria which held him and Mandela liable for the collapse of Aurora Mines was wrong. (The Star) Endit