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Top news items in major S. African news outlets

Xinhua, May 15, 2017 Adjust font size:

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

-- Former national police commissioner George Fivaz is set to testify in the Western Cape High Court on Monday, in the mammoth trial focusing on a top policeman that Nelson Mandela chose to head an elite presidential investigative unit. (News24)

-- The Congress of the People (Cope) said on Sunday former electricity utility Eskom CEO Brian Molefe should not bother to report for duty on Monday as he will be prevented from entering Megawatt Park, Johannesburg where Eskom is headquartered.

Opposition parties and civil society organizations will block the entrance to the utility in protest against a decision to reinstate Molefe. (Eyewitness News).

-- South African President Jacob Zuma has dismissed allegations that he is corrupt and again alluded to a "third force" being behind the rise of anti-Zuma sentiment in the country. (South African Broadcasting Corporation) Enditem