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Top news items in major S. African media outlets

Xinhua, January 22, 2017 Adjust font size:

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

-- Treasury said on Saturday Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan will only be responding to the latest attack by the Indian Gupta family through his responding affidavit to be submitted next Friday.

Last October, Gordhan filed an explosive affidavit which reveals suspicious transactions by the Gupta family amounting to nearly R7 billion.(Eyewitness News).

-- Police Minister Nathi Nhleko allegedly ignored a short list of five highly qualified police officers when he went ahead and appointed Major-General Mthandazo Ntlemeza as head of priority crimes investigation unit, the Hawks.

After the first process was concluded in 2013, Nhleko readvertised the job and hired Ntlemeza.(City Press) Endit