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Top news items in major S. African news outlets

Xinhua,February 17, 2018 Adjust font size:

CAPE TOWN, Feb. 17 (Xinhua) -- The following are news items in South Africa's major news outlets on Saturday:

-- President Cyril Ramaphosa on Friday urged South Africans to work together to bring about the fair and just society that was Nelson Mandela's dream.

He put jobs for young people at the top of a long list of ambitious plans aimed at firing up the economy, rooting out corruption and making the state leaner and more efficient. (Eyewitness News)

-- As fugitive Ajay Gupta, elder brother of the controversial Gupta family, continued to evade arrest on Friday, police have insisted that there is no manhunt for his brother, Atul.

Late on Friday, police spokesperson Brigadier Hangwani Mulaudzi confirmed that investigators were still in negotiations with a security company "protecting" Ajay. (Independent Online)

-- The Agricultural Business Chamber of South Africa has welcomed newly-elected President Cyril Ramaphosa's state-of-the-nation address (SONA), especially the general thrust of its focus on revitalising the economy and the commitment to root out corruption. (South African Broadcasting Corporation) Enditem

 

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