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Top news items in major S. African media outlets

Xinhua, December 6, 2016 Adjust font size:

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

-- Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa said on Monday although South Africa has made great strides since the adoption of its Constitution twenty years ago, there is still a long way to go.

The country risked being diverted from the path it has chosen, he told guests at the Nelson Mandela Foundation in Johannesburg.(News24)

-- Moody's Investors Service (Moody's) on Monday gave South Africa's electricity utility Eskom a reprieve by confirming its Ba1 senior unsecured and (P)Ba1 senior unsecured MTN ratings. The rating agency has simultaneously assigned to Eskom a national scale rating of A2.za. The outlook on both ratings is negative.(Fin24).

-- As the festive season kicks off, Transport Minister Dipuo Peters and traffic officers will on Tuesday meet to discuss new and innovative ways of reducing road fatalities in the country.

Peters is expected to deliver a keynote address at the National Traffic Indaba which opens on Tuesday at the Albert Luthuli International Convention Centre in Durban.(South African Broadcasting Corporation). Endit