Top news items of S. African major media outlets

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

-- South African Airways (SAA) has made a complete reversal on its statement that it subsidises subsidiary Mango Airlines through below-cost aircraft subleases. In a "clarification" it says: "All such agreements had been concluded on a full cost recovery basis."

The initial statement was potentially damaging to both SAA and Mango, as it laid them open to penalties under the Competition Act for unfair competition in the low-cost airline market.(Business Day).

-- President Jacob Zuma has until July 4 to respond to complaints of hate speech laid against him at the Human Rights Commission (HRC) by the Freedom Front Plus (FF Plus), HRC spokesperson Isaac Mangena has said. (News24).

-- The United Nations (UN) has on Thursday paid tribute to the memory of those who fell during the uprising and the progress made by South Africa since its first democratic elections in 1994.

Three days after the Soweto uprising in 1976, the Security Council expressed its deep shock over the large-scale killings and wounding of "Africans" in the country following what it termed the callous shooting of African people including schoolchildren and students demonstrating against racial discrimination. (South African Broadcasting Corporation). Endit