Top news items in major S. African media outlets

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

-- The leaders of a trade union that was allegedly established as a covert intelligence project claims they received instructions from President Jacob Zuma to spy on rival trade unions such as the Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union.

This is among the explosive claims made in a civil suit brought against Zuma and several government ministers and departments in the North Gauteng High Court in Pretoria. (News24)

-- The extent of the Indian Gupta family's fight against the major South African banks, together with their friend, Mineral Resources Minister Mosebenzi Zwane, has been laid bare.

In a long and scathing affidavit this week, Standard Bank attacked what it called "impermissible political interference", aimed at reversing its decision to close the bank accounts of Gupta-owned companies.(City Press) Endit