Top news items in major S. African media outlets

CAPE TOWN, March 21 (Xinhua) -- The following are news items in South African major news outlets on Wednesday:

-- Economic analysis by international consulting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) indicates five factors that will determine which way the rate decision for South Africa could go.

PwC said in a statement on Tuesday that the local economic implications of Cyril Ramaphosa's election as president of the African National Congress, the cabinet reshuffle that followed and inflation will likely feature as the Monetary Policy Committee of the South African Reserve Bank meets this week.(Fin24)

--Deputy President David Mabuza faced off with Members of Parliament (MPs) for the first time in the National Assembly on Tuesday.

Parliamentarians used the occasion to put him on the spot on a range of issues from tax evasion to land expropriation and the nationalization of the South African Reserve Bank. (Eyewitness News)

-- Former president Jacob Zuma's family has accused the judiciary of conducting a witch-hunt against him.

Zuma's son Edward has been responding to the National Prosecuting Authority's announcement that it intends charging his father. He warns of what he calls "dire consequences" for the African National Congress in the 2019 general election.(South African Broadcasting Corporation) Enditem