Top news items in major S. African media outlets

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

-- Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa has apologized to voters that boycotted the 2016 local government elections to teach the African National Congress (ANC) a lesson.

"People that stayed away from voting for us in 2016 because the ANC must listen, we must listen to what our people are saying. Because if we do not listen, we will lose," he said on Friday.(News24)

-- African National Congress (ANC) Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa has condemned corruption within the party and blamed it for the slow pace in the fight against unemployment in the country.

Ramaphosa said on Friday the party should deal with dishonest members and those who steal from the poor.(Eyewitness News)

-- While many South Africans are adopting a "let's wait and see" approach to the country's recent economic downgrade, increasingly volatile political climate and ever-growing threats of land expropriation without compensation and mass violence, many other South Africans - most notably high net-worth individuals (HNWIs) - are putting steps in place to be able to live elsewhere.

Jacques Scherman, vice president for business development at Arton Capital, a global company that specialises in working with people to attain second citizenships, said he's never been busier.(Fin24) Endit