Flash Briefing: Added pressure on Magashule; Steinhoff results delayed; Brimstone lines fishing merger; Trade talks positive.

Pressure mounted over the weekend on the man who oversees day-to-day running of South Africa’s ruling political party. Another round of trade talks between the US and China wrapped up in Washington over the weekend with both sides happy with the progress. South Africa’s leading food group Tiger Brands is to unbundle to shareholders its remaining 49m shares in South Africa’s biggest fishing group, Oceana. Steinhoff announced late on Friday that its auditors Deloitte have pushed out the projected date for publication of the financial results for 2017 and 2018.