Top news in major S. African news outlets

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

-- A group of over 100 ANC veterans have rejected the party's decision to make its consultative conference part of its policy conference next year.

There needed to be distance between the two, so the consultative conference could exhaust all issues which had to be addressed, writer and poet Wally Serote told reporters in Johannesburg on Tuesday. (News24).

-- The private sector should be able to compete on a more equal footing with South Africa's state-owned entities (SOEs), the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said after an official visit to the country.

"To foster economic growth and job creation, the cost of crucial inputs for businesses and of services for workers -- such as electrical power, telecommunications, and transportation - needs to be brought down," it said in a statement on Tuesday following the visit earlier this month. (Fin24).

-- The Human Rights Commission said on Tuesday a ruling by the Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA), confirming the use of English as medium of instruction at the University of the Free State, made it clear that courts of law are determined to address imbalances at institutions of higher learning.

The ruling came after Civil Rights movement Afriforum challenged the matter.(South African Broadcasting Corporation) Enditem