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Top news items in major S. African news outlets

Xinhua, February 28, 2017 Adjust font size:

The following are news items in South Africa's major news outlets on Tuesday:

-- The SA Social Security Agency will appear before Parliament's standing committee on public accounts on Tuesday to discuss the looming social grants crisis. (News24)

-- South Africa's stocks of rock lobster and abalone have dropped to critically low levels, primarily due to poaching activities.

This is according to Professor Doug Butterworth, a mathematician at the University of Cape Town who does research on abalone and rock lobster on behalf of the Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries.(Fin24).

-- South Africa is facing a health disaster that experts are describing as a "ticking time bomb".

State hospitals have been discharging patients with a highly infectious strain of tuberculosis (TB) -- far worse than the extensive drug-resistant TB we already know about. (South African Broadcasting Corporation) Endit