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Top news items in major S. African media outlets

Xinhua, January 28, 2017 Adjust font size:

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

-- With just three days to go for African leaders to decide who will succeed African Union Commission Chairperson Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, anything is possible.

There are an unprecedented five candidates and some frontrunners, but voting happens in elimination rounds.(City Press)

-- Two men have been arrested for allegedly hijacking and robbing an American couple in Port Elizabeth while they were taking in the local sights.

They were caught in bushes close to Addo Road, Motherwell, on Thursday, according to the South African Police Service Facebook page. (News24)

-- South Africa's economy is faced with the worst of both worlds -- a combination of rising inflation and stagnant GDP growth, which leaves little room for manoeuvrability, said Andre Roux, economics professor at the University of Stellenbosch Business School (USB).

Roux was one of the speakers at a seminar hosted by the USB and the Institute for Futures Research (IFR) where the developments in the economy, politics, technology and their influence on the country were discussed. (Fin24) Endit