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Top news items in major S. African media outlets

Xinhua, June 5, 2016 Adjust font size:

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

-- President Jacob Zuma has urged African National Congress (ANC) members to put the party first ahead of the local government elections.

"The ANC is indeed a democratic movement which adheres to principles of democracy... all our members must put the interest of the ANC first and place their skills and energies at the disposal of the organization at the elections," he said. (Business Day).

-- The South African cabinet has put a bill on hold that could make South Africa the first African country to withdraw from the International Criminal Court.

A memo with the draft bill was circulated at a cabinet meeting last month, but two independent sources who briefed about the meeting said the cabinet had not approved it going to Parliament, where it would be fine-tuned before it can be passed. It is not clear why the memo was rejected. (News24)

-- The South African Communist Party (SACP) has once again reassured the African National Congress (ANC) that it has not registered to contest the August 3 Local Government Elections in Alfred Nzo district in the Eastern Cape.

This came after ANC secretary general Gwede Mantashe made the accusation that the communist party had submitted its candidates list for the polls. (South African Broadcasting Corporation) Endit