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Top news items in major S. African media outlets

Xinhua, November 8, 2016 Adjust font size:

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

-- Economic Freedom Fighters leader Julius Malema has remained defiant in his call for black South Africans to take back unoccupied land.

"We will take our land no matter how. It's becoming unavoidable, it's becoming inevitable," said Malema on Monday. (News24)

-- Students living at a private residence in the Johannesburg CBD, where a University of Johannesburg student was shot and killed, say they can no longer bear living in the building and are now packing their bags and going back home.

Twenty-one-year-old Kevin Baloyi was killed, allegedly by a security guard, over the weekend after a year-end party on the premises. (Eyewitness News)

-- Former Public Protector Thuli Madonsela has refused to comment about the alleged leaking of an audio recording of her interview with President Jacob Zuma regarding her investigation into the alleged State Capture. The audio recordings were allegedly leaked to one of the TV stations. (South African Broadcasting Corporation) Enditem