Top news items in major S. African media outlets

The following are highlights of South African major news outlets on Sunday.

-- As the ANC prepares to elect a new leader when President Jacob Zuma steps down, Secretary General Gwede Mantashe says party members should be focusing on principles rather than throwing around names.

"We have agreed on the succession that let's go out to the regions and... talk principles first before we talk names, because when you talk names you create the stampede that I always talk about," he told reporters in Pretoria on Saturday. (News24)

-- President Jacob Zuma's future as ANC president was left hanging by a thread after Tourism Minister Derek Hanekom stunned Zuma and his backers when he tabled a motion for him to step down at the national executive committee (NEC) meeting yesterday.

Late last night, the meeting had been adjourned with the discussion around a vote deferred to today, the last day of the NEC sitting. (City Press) Endit