Top news items in major S. African media outlets

The following are news items in South African major news outlets on Friday.

-- President Jacob Zuma on Friday blamed South Africa's top four banks for controlling the economy, hours after his State of the Nation Address in Parliament.

"If you have got four banks - major ones - and they take everything; they don't want you to do anything," he said. (South African Broadcasting Corporation)

-- The vision for a much stronger state-controlled South African economy took centre-stage in President Jacob Zuma's 2017 State of the Nation Address delivered in Parliament on Thursday evening.

The speech, which was delivered amid unprecedentedly tight security inside and outside of Parliament and a spat between ANC members and the EFF and the DA that saw the two opposition parties leaving the house, was scant on detail about South Africa's controversial nuclear deal and the future of the troubled state-owned enterprises. (Fin24)

-- Parliament's speaker, Baleka Mbete, was too soft and should not have waited for an hour before acting against the Economic Freedom Fighters, African National Congress secretary-general Gwede Mantashe said on Thursday evening.

Speaking on the steps of Parliament after President Jacob Zuma delivered his state of the nation address, Mantashe said: "The speaker was too patient. She took too long. She should have wrapped it in the first 20 minutes." (City Press) Endit