Top news items in major S. African media outlets

CAPE TOWN, May 30 (Xinhua) -- The following are news items in South African major news outlets on Wednesday:

-- The protracted public sector wage negotiations are close to being clinched with 42 percent of the employees represented at the Public Service Coordinating Bargaining Council (PSCBC) having signed the three-year deal.

Two of the largest unions in the public sector -- the Police and Prisons Civil Rights Union and the South African Democratic Teachers' Union -- said on Tuesday they had inked the deal. (Fin24)

-- Police Minister Bheki Cele on Tuesday met with the country's top Crime Intelligence officers and identified the priorities they need to focus on.

The meeting comes amid a spike in cash-in-transit heists and taxi violence and as questions are being raised about the capacity of the Crime Intelligence unit to combat organized crime. (Eyewitness News)

-- Deputy President David Mabuza faced pressing questions on whether the government's decision to place the North West provincial government under administration was a cabinet decision or an African National Congress' factional battle decision.

Mabuza was in the National Assembly for an oral reply session on Tuesday. (South African Broadcasting Corporation) Enditem