Top news items in major S. African media outlets

The following are news highlights in South African major media outlets on Saturday.

-- Every day scores of asylum seekers camp at the doorsteps of the Marabastad refugee reception centre in Pretoria, in pursuit of bona fide documentation to remain in the country.

These foreigners throng the entrance clutching paperwork that includes identification documents from their country of origin, travel documents and non-renewable asylum transit permits.(News24)

-- The African National Congress Youth League has called on Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan to be redeployed and the Treasury be restructured, claiming that the Treasury under Gordhan is concerned with protecting white monopoly capital.

The League was speaking in Johannesburg on Friday following a meeting of its National Executive.(South African Broadcasting Corporation)

-- The election of the next leader of South Africa's ruling African National Congress looks set to be a two-horse race.

Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, the former chairperson of the African Union Commission, has an early edge in the battle to take over the helm of the party from her ex-husband President Jacob Zuma at its December national conference, according to 11 of 26 analysts surveyed by Bloomberg on February 13 and 14.(Fin24) Endit