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Top news items in major S. African media outlets

Xinhua, January 31, 2017 Adjust font size:

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

-- South Africa needs to move away from a pure capitalist state to a state-managed developmental economy, the African National Congress (ANC) said at a media conference on Monday.

In preparation for its 54th National Conference in December 2017, the ruling party is mooting radical economic transformation through among other things changing the banking environment to less "concentrated and racialised" and more in the interest of the vast majority of the country.(Fin24)

-- Parliament's police portfolio committee is still deciding how to handle the Claassen Board of Inquiry's report on suspended police commissioner Riah Phiyega.

The committee had scheduled a meeting for Thursday to discuss referring the report to the Presidency, as President Jacob Zuma had appointed the board, chairperson Francois Beukman said.(News24)

-- African National Congress (ANC) Secretary General Gwede Mantashe said on Monday the name of Brian Molefe, former CEO of electricity utility Eskom, is not on the party's list for Parliament.

This came after the Sunday Times reported on Sunday that the ANC in the North West wants to put Molefe on its Parliamentary list so that he would ultimately become the new Finance Minister when President Jacob Zuma reshuffles his cabinet.(Eyewitness News) Endit