Top news items in major S. African media outlets

The following are top news items in major South African media outlets on Tuesday:

-- The heckling and booing of President Jacob Zuma which led to the cancellation of a May Day rally has been hailed as a turning point in the battle against Zuma and his allies by some in both the Free State Province and the country.

The president of the country and the African National Congress (ANC) was received by anti-Zuma songs and chants for him to fall at the event where he was meant to be delivering a message of support on behalf of his political party but all speeches were cancelled as crowds refused to participate in the program or even hear from certain leaders.(News24)

-- The new worker's federation, the South African Federation of Trade Unions (SAFTU), has called on workers of the country to unite in order to deal with challenges facing the country.

Scores of the federation's members took to the streets in Durban on Monday as part of the commemoration of International Workers' Day.(South African Broadcasting Corporation)

-- As the African National Congress in the Free State blames external forces infiltrating the party for Monday's chaos where President Jacob Zuma was booed, the mother body has laid the blame squarely on the party's alliance partners.

The ANC is suggesting that people heckled the president because the South African Communist Party (SACP) and Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) previously called on him to step down. (Eyewitness News) Endit