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Top news in major S. African news outlets

Xinhua, December 9, 2016 Adjust font size:

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

-- A new overtime policy introduced by the Department of Health could see some doctors in the public sector facing a pay cut as high as 30 percent in January.

Some doctors have warned of a mass exodus of specialists from the public sector to the private sector if the policy is implemented. (News24)

-- South Africa improved three places on the Nation Brand Index and now stands at position 35 out of 50 countries, Brand South Africa said in a statement. (Fin24)

-- The Justice Alliance of South Africa, JASA, is the latest group to welcome this week's Supreme Court of Appeal decision on euthanasia.

The ruling sets aside a Pretoria High Court decision to allow doctors to perform assisted suicide on terminally-ill patients.(South African Broadcasting Corporation) Enditem