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Top news items in major S. African media outlets

Xinhua, December 7, 2016 Adjust font size:

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

-- Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa will face questions on the minimum wage and the relationship between the legislature and the executive in the National Assembly on Wednesday.

The deputy president will be answering oral questions for the last time this year. (News24).

-- South Africa may struggle to hit a previously projected 0.5 percent gross domestic product growth in 2016 amid a weaker-than-expected GDP expansion of 0.2 percent for the third quarter.

Statistics South Africa released the third-quarter data for GDP growth on Tuesday. Data showed that growth was 3.1 percentage points lower than that reported in the second quarter. It was also 0.1 of a percentage point lower than the 0.3 percent recorded in the third quarter of 2015. (Fin24).

-- The Department of Energy said on Tuesday it is concerned about the slow transformation within the petroleum retail sector.

The department is currently having consultative workshops to try and understand why there are few blacks owning petrol stations in the country. (South African Broadcasting Corporation). Endit