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Top news items of S. African major news outlets

Xinhua, July 18, 2016 Adjust font size:

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

-- Textile union the Southern African Clothing and Textile Workers' Union (Sactwu) has agreed to an 8.25% wage increase with employers in the cotton sector, the group said on Monday.

The deal represents an above-inflation increase for Sactwu's 4,630 members and will apply to all employers in the sector.(Business Day)

-- South African rally champion Gugu Zulu has died while climbing Mount Kilimanjaro, the Nelson Mandela Foundation said on Monday.

The Foundation confirmed that Zulu had died while attempting to climb Kilimanjaro on Mandela Day in Tanzania.(News24)

-- Founder and chair of the Thembekile Mandela Foundation and the daughter of Nelson Mandela's late eldest son Thembekile Mandela, Ndileka, will start Monday morning cleaning up a municipality office followed by a lunch for 500 people to mark the UN sanctioned Nelson Mandela Day.(South African Broadcasting Corporation) Endit