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Top news items of S. African major news outlets

Xinhua, July 1, 2016 Adjust font size:

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

-- More than a year after the Passenger Rail Agency of SA (Prasa) fired its CEO Lucky Montana, the agency's board has accused Transport Minister Dipuo Peters of causing harm to the organization and undermining the board by delaying the appointment of a new CEO.

In a letter addressed to Peters in May, Prasa board chairman Popo Molefe told Peters that she had failed to respond to submissions on a CEO.

He said her delay "perpetuated noncompliance" with governance codes, and caused harm to an organization that had experienced "serious instability in the recent past". (Business Day)

-- The Democratic Alliance's dream of snatching Mpumalanga's Steve Tshwete Local Municipality in Middelburg risks going up in smoke due to racism flowing like magma through the party leadership in the town.

A potential councillor candidate for the Kanonkop ward 15, Buks Olivier (67), is digging up history from the municipality's files and using it against one of the hopefuls after racism allegations. (City Press)

-- President Jacob Zuma will lead an African National Congress (ANC) election campaign trail at the Abaqulusi Local Municipality in northern KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) on Friday. He will conduct a do a door-to-campaign and interact with community members in Mondlo.(South African Broadcasting Corporation) Endit