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Top news items of S. African major media outlets

Xinhua, July 6, 2016 Adjust font size:

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

-- The South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) takes "serious exception" to insinuations that its managers are neither properly educated nor qualified to run the state broadcaster.

It also says it has not changed its editorial policy, and the decision not to show violent protests was an editorial call intended to ensure it adhered to SA's broadcasting code of conduct.(Business Day)

-- Paralympian Oscar Pistorius is expected to be sentenced in the High Court in Pretoria this Wednesday morning. Judge Thokozile Masipa will hand down her judgment in the sentencing.

In February 2013, Pistorius shot and killed his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp at his Pretoria home.(South African Broadcasting Corporation) Endit