Top news items of South African major media outlets

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

-- A Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) programming error, in which the bourse wildly overstated the purchase of equities by foreigners in May and July, distorted data used by the South African Reserve Bank in its interest rate decision last week. (Business Day)

-- When it comes to nation building and transformation, firms do too little, according to former Minister in the Presidency, Trevor Manuel.

Manuel, as current non-executive chairperson of Old Mutual Group Holdings, delivered an address at the Insurance Institute of South Africa (IISA) Insurance Conference for 2016 at Sun City, on Monday. He highlighted the role of firms in transforming society and the responsibility firms have to unite the country. (Fin24)

-- The Democratic Alliance (DA) has described its election campaign in the Nelson Mandela Bay in the Eastern Cape as successful.

The party has wrapped up its election campaign in the Metro. (South African Broadcasting Corporation) Endit