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Top news items in major S. African media outlets

Xinhua, April 24, 2017 Adjust font size:

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

-- The rand has strengthened to below R13/$ for the first time since President Jacob Zuma's midnight Cabinet reshuffle on March 31 that saw former finance minister Pravin Gordhan and his deputy Mcebisi Jonas removed from their positions.

The local unit was trading at R12.99/$ at 07:44, tracking the firmer euro and as Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa took on Zuma and the wealthy Gupta family, alleged to be capturing the state, in an apparent campaign speech on Sunday. (Fin24)

-- The African National Congress in KwaZulu-Natal on Sunday called for the commission of inquiry into political killings to speed up its investigation after the fatal shooting of the party's deputy secretary in the Harry Gwala region, Khaya Thobela.

Thobela was shot last week at his home at eMfundweni in southern KwaZulu-Natal. The 47 year-old was also the Speaker of Umzimkhulu Municipality and was the third ANC leader to be killed in the province in two months. (South African Broadcasting Corporation)

-- President Jacob Zuma said on Sunday there is a parallel government operating outside the current leadership which is trying to destroy the African National Congress (ANC) in order to govern South Africa.

Zuma was speaking at a commemoration of the Musa Dladla Region freedom fighters in Empangeni, KwaZulu-Natal Province. (Eyewitness News) Endit