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Top news items in major S. African news outlets

Xinhua, May 17, 2017 Adjust font size:

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

-- The African National Congress (ANC) has ordered Public Enterprises Minister Lynne Brown and the Eskom Board to rescind Brian Molefe's return to the power utility as its CEO. (News24)

-- Mineral Resources Minister Mosebenzi Zwane said revolutionaries such as himself and his predecessor Ngoako Ramatlhodi can not be "pressured" into doing something against their will.

At a media briefing ahead of his budget vote in Parliament on Tuesday, Zwane was asked to comment on Ramatlhodi's revelation that during his term of office as mineral resources minister he was pressured by Eskom CEO Brian Molefe and chairperson Ben Ngubane to help the Indian Gupta family take over Glencore's coal mine in 2016. (Fin24)

-- South Africa's central bank governor Lesetja Kganyago said on Tuesday that raising lending rates would do little to attract new investments to the country after its credit rating was downgraded to junk. (South African Broadcasting Corporation) Enditem