Top news items in major S. African media outlets
Xinhua,February 26, 2018 Adjust font size:
CAPE TOWN, Feb. 26 (Xinhua) -- The following are news items in South African major news outlets on Monday:
-- With President Cyril Ramaphosa expected to announce his cabinet reshuffle early this week, speculation is rife over whether this will include his deputy in the African National Congress, David Mabuza, as deputy president of South Africa.
The controversial Mpumalanga premier has been touted to replace Ramaphosa as the country's second-in-charge, but this is not necessarily what Mabuza wants.(News24)
-- There's still no word on whether former president Jacob Zuma will have to present himself at the Pietermaritzburg High Court so he can be charged with fraud and corruption.
Weekend reports suggested the team of prosecutors assigned to consider the case against Zuma recommended that all the charges withdrawn in 2009 should be reinstated. (Eyewitness News)
-- Thirteen suspects, who were arrested in connection with the brutal killing of five policemen and a retired soldier in Ngcobo in the Eastern Cape, are expected to appear in the Ngcobo magistrate court on Monday.
A group of assailants gunned down the on-duty police officers at the police station and allegedly blasted an ATM machi. (South African Broadcasting Corporation) Enditem