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Top news items of S. African major media outlets

Xinhua, July 19, 2016 Adjust font size:

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

-- The risks to South Africa being downgraded in December are significant but the country still has time to avoid it, says BMI Research sub-Saharan Africa head Julie Beckenstein.

Implementing fiscal consolidation, ensuring better management at state-owned enterprises and reforming the labour market might help SA avoid a credit ratings downgrade, Beckenstein said. BMI Research is a unit of Fitch Group. (Business Day)

-- A second KwaZulu-Natal ANC member and candidate councillor was shot dead on Monday on her way to a Mandela Day event, the Hawks said.

Hawks spokesperson Captain Simphiwe Mhlongo told News24 that 41-year-old Khanyisile Sibisi was shot on Monday afternoon while on her way to donate goods at a Mandela Day event in Ladysmith. (News24)

-- South Africa has made giant strides in the prevention of HIV transmission from mother to child.

Latest official statistics show that the country has reduced mother-to-child transmission from 8.5% in 2008 to 1.5% currently.(City Press) Endit