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Top news items in major S. African media outlets

Xinhua, April 16, 2017 Adjust font size:

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

-- Opposition parties have slammed the decision by the SA Police Service (SAPS) to offer presidential protection service to former African Union Commission Chairwoman Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma.

They have described this decision as illegal, unconstitutional and "an appalling abuse of police resources". (City Press)

-- The office of Deputy Police Minister Bongani Mkongi has described the robbery at a Cape Town army base as an attack on the state's authority.

No arrests have been made following the incident in which nine rifles, ammunition and a soldier's cellphone were stolen at the 9 Infantry Battalion Base in Khayelitsha on Friday. (Eyewitness News)

-- Hundreds of people from Zimbane villages have illegally invaded land outside Mthatha in the Eastern Cape.

The villagers say they have decided to occupy the land after learning that the King Sabatha Dalindyebo Local Municipality is planning to build Rural Development Project houses in the area. (South African Broadcasting Corporation) Endit