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Top news items in major S. African media outlets

Xinhua, October 5, 2016 Adjust font size:

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

-- Public Protector Thuli Madonsela will interview President Jacob Zuma this week in the final leg of her investigation into "state capture" and allegations that he abused power and allowed friends, the Gupta family, to influence state business.

The probe is viewed by African National Congress leaders critical of Zuma as a last-ditch attempt to rein him in and neutralize the influence of the Gupta family after an ANC attempt to investigate the same thing failed dismally. (Business Day)

-- Higher Education and Training Minister Blade Nzimande on Tuesday urged a group of matric students to speak out against the burning of university property. (News24)

-- Higher Education and Training Minister Blade Nzimande believes the demands of students for free education have been hijacked by a third force.

Nzimande said on Tuesday that poor students are plundering universities on behalf of the rich who know that they will send their children abroad as soon as the higher education system collapses. (South African Broadcasting Corporation) Endit