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Top news items in major S. African news outlets

Xinhua, January 15, 2017 Adjust font size:

The following are news items in major South African news outlets on Sunday:

-- South Africa's government departments and poultry producers will meet in the next few weeks in a last-ditch bid to save the country's chicken industry.

The sector is on the verge of collapse as it battles a flood of cheap chicken quarters that are allegedly being dumped by the EU countries and the United States. (Fin24)

-- The SA Union of Students will meet Higher Education Minister Blade Nzimande on Tuesday ahead of planned protests at universities across the country.

"We do not want any student left out of funding this year," said a student leader on Saturday. (City Press)

-- The International Relations Department said it was doing its best to ensure the release of South African photo-journalist Shiraaz Mohamed, who has allegedly been kidnapped in Syria.

Mohamed, 38, was kidnapped near the Turkish border on Tuesday. (South African Broadcasting Corporation) Enditem