Top news items in major S. African media outlets
Xinhua, May 13, 2017 Adjust font size:
The following are news highlights in South African major media outlets on Saturday.
-- Opposition parties say they are consulting their lawyers to urgently interdict Brian Molefe from returning to electricity Eskom.
Two of South Africa's biggest opposition parties have confirmed to journalists on Friday that they are seeking to intervene following news that the former Eskom CEO had resigned as a member of parliament and was due back at the electricity provider on Monday.(News24)
-- The South African Communist Party (SACP) says Brian Molefe has not been reinstated as Eskom CEO but re-employed, which means Eskom's board has broken governance rules by allowing him to go back to the electricity utility.
On Friday, Public Enterprises Minister Lynne Brown said she had approved Molefe's return to Eskom as CEO.(Eyewitness News)
-- Communications Minister Ayanda Dlodlo and Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi will join Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa in a 24-hour pro-Palestinian hunger strike starting Sunday evening.
The strike is in sympathy with about 1,500 Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails, who are on hunger strike.(South African Broadcasting Corporation) Endit