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Top news items in major S. African media outlets

Xinhua, December 26, 2016 Adjust font size:

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

--The South African National Civic Organization on Sunday called for clamping down on reckless and negligent driving following an accident that claimed many lives on Sunday.

This is after 12 people were killed in a collision between a bus and a taxi on a N1, outside Worsester in the Western cape on Saturday.(News24).

-- Suspended National Police Commissioner Riah Phiyega is not fit to hold office and should be dismissed, the board of inquiry into her fitness to hold office has found.

The board of inquiry, headed by Judge Cornelis Claassen, also found that Phiyega lied to the Marikana Commission of Inquiry.(City Press).

-- Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) leader Luthando Mbinda said on Sunday suspended National Police Commissioner Riya Phiyega is not the only person who should account for the 2012 Marikana tragedy in which 34 mineworkers were killed.

Mbinda supports Congress of the People's (COPE) call for a Parliamentary committee to investigate the alleged involvement of Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa and former Police Minister Nathi Mthethwa.South African Broadcasting Corporation) Endit