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Top news items in major S. African media outlets

Xinhua, October 4, 2016 Adjust font size:

The following are news highlights in South Africa's major media outlets on Tuesday.

-- Energy Minister Tina Joemat-Petterssen released on Monday evening a preliminary information memorandum (PIM) for the development of the first liquefied natural gas (LNG) to power plant by independent power producers,

The memorandum outlines the scope of the LNG-to-power independent power producer procurement program for prospective and interested bidders to consider. (Business Day)

-- The African National Congress (ANC) believes it has exceeded the goals for higher education it set down in the Freedom Charter, ANC secretary general Gwede Mantashe said on Monday.

People tended to exaggerate the charter's objectives on free education, he told journalists at a briefing on the outcomes of the ANC's national executive committee meeting. (News24)

-- The ANC has vowed to halt the electoral decline, reclaim lost ground and restore people's trust and confidence by rooting out corruption within its ranks. This came out at the end of its three-day national executive committee held over the weekend in Pretoria.(South African Broadcasting Corporation) Enditem