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Top news items in major S. African media outlets

Xinhua, December 5, 2016 Adjust font size:

The following are highlights of South African major media outlets on Monday:

-- Unruly behaviour by some in Parliament does not conform with teachings of the Bible, President Jacob Zuma told thousands of members of the Twelve Apostles in Christ church at the Moses Mabhida Stadium in Durban on Sunday.

It was Zuma's first public appearance after a meeting of the National Executive Committee of the African National Congress 10 days ago in which several ministers in his Cabinet led a call for him to step down. (News24).

-- The R17.3m (1.25 million U.S. dollars) bonuses that PetroSA executives received this year must be paid back immediately, said Gordon Mackay, Democratic Alliance spokesperson on energy.

"The DA also wants the legal opinion which informed this disastrous payment to be made public and tabled before Parliament's portfolio committee on energy," Mackay said on Sunday. (Fin24).

-- Veterans of the African National Congress (ANC) in Cape Town say leaders must reflect on whether they are following in the footsteps of the late former President, Nelson Mandela.

Party members gathered in Athlone near Cape Town on Sunday to remember Mandela on the third anniversary of his death.(South African Broadcasting Corporation) Endit