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Top news items in major S. African media outlets

Xinhua,April 12, 2018 Adjust font size:

CAPE TOWN, April 12 (Xinhua) -- The following are news highlights in South African major media outlets on Thursday.

-- South Africa's Burgh Group Holdings won a temporary contract to keep mines linked to the Gupta family afloat, according to a business rescue manager for the assets.

Other parties offered financing, but Burgh "came without conditions", Louis Klopper, a bankruptcy-proceedings manager at Coronado Consulting Group, said on Wednesday.(Fin24)

-- The personal assistant of the late Winnie Madikizela-Mandela said on Wednesday the struggle stalwart was proud of what had become of the African National Congress (ANC) lately.

Zodwa Zwane paid a moving tribute to the "mother of the nation" at her memorial service at Orlando Stadium in Johannesburg. (Eyewitness News)

-- The case of 17 police officers, who are alleged to have fraudulently inflated invoices, and attached to the East London Port Of Entry in the Eastern Cape has been postponed to May 23, 2018.(South African Broadcasting Corporation) Enditem