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Top news items in major S. African media outlets

Xinhua, September 21, 2016 Adjust font size:

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

-- The University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg has suspended all academic activity for the rest of the week, it announced in a statement on Tuesday night. (News24)

-- President Jacob Zuma has used the intractable Syrian conflict as a means to highlight the inherent structural dysfunction of the UN Security Council as he pressed the question of reform in his address to the General Assembly in New York. (South African Broadcasting Corporation)

-- Soon after shutting its Snap Lake mine in Canada, De Beers has officially opened its new Gahcho Kue mine, which it described as the largest new diamond mine in 13 years.

De Beers is the 51 percent owner of the 1 billion U.S. dollar mine, which it shares with Toronto-listed Mountain Province Diamonds. (Business Day) Enditem