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Top news items of S. African major media outlets

Xinhua, August 29, 2016 Adjust font size:

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

-- The rift in the ANC-led alliance deepened on Sunday as the South African Communist Party (SACP) suggested that President Jacob Zuma wielded too much power in the Cabinet and in the ANC's national executive committee, and that Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan was being hounded to weaken the National Treasury's battle against corruption and the capture of the state.(Business Day)

-- Three people have died after their light aircraft crashed on a mountain in Mpumalanga immediately after taking off, the police say.(News24)

-- The South African Communist Party (SACP) general secretary Blade Nzimande says the party is treating the announcement by the Guptas that they intend to sell all their assets in South Africa with a great deal of skepticism.

He addressed the media in Kempton Park on Gauteng's East Rand on Sunday.(South African Broadcasting Corporation) Enditem