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Top news items of S. African major news outlets

Xinhua, July 20, 2016 Adjust font size:

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

-- South Africa must make job-creation a priority, and tackle anticompetitive behaviors by labour and big business, IMF deputy MD David Lipton said yesterday in a speech more blunt in its prescriptions for reform than the organization was in its report on the country a week ago.

Speaking in Johannesburg on Tuesday, Lipton said the economy needed to absorb the one-third of the workforce that was excluded from the economy.(Business Day)

-- Load shedding has not been a problem for electricity utility Eskom for the past 11 months and the power utility projects that there will be no load shedding for the remainder of winter and possibly until March 2017.

This is according to chief executive Brian Molefe, who delivered the state of the quarter address at the POWER-GEN DistribuTECH Africa 2016 conference in Johannesburg on Tuesday. (News24)

-- For the first time, there has been a significant focus on transgender issues at the 21st International AIDS conference underway in Durban.

Various non-profit organizations have added their voices calling for the inclusion of minority groups in the fight against HIV/AIDS.(South African Broadcasting Corporation) Endit