Top news items of S. African major media outlets

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

-- A R171m (US$12m), two-year contract has been awarded to black-owned Empire Technology, for project management systems for the nuclear build programme, Energy Minister Tina Joemat-Pettersson said on Friday. (Business Day).

-- The whistleblowers behind the Twitter handle @espionageSA, who leaked thousands of pages of information on the illegal spying, corruption and money laundering going on behind the scenes in the tobacco industry, have come out into the open.

Last month @espionageSA released documentation showing that a security company, FSS, contracted by British American Tobacco, was spying on competitors and who allegedly had police, metro police, and South African Revenue Service officials on their payroll. (News24)

-- Academics at Wits University and the University of Johannesburg have called for an urgent public meeting in Johannesburg on Saturday to discuss the crises at institutions of higher learning.

They have appealed to parents, lecturers, students and workers to attend the meeting. The academics say lack of funding has made universities to be like private institutions. (South African Broadcasting Corporation) Endit