Top news items in major S. African news outlets

CAPE TOWN, Dec. 19 (Xinhua) -- The following are news items in South Africa's major news outlets on Tuesday:

-- Accusations of state capture can not be limited to the Indian Gupta family, when Afrikaner capital continues to capture the state, former African National Congress (ANC) Secretary General Gwede Mantashe wrote in his organizational report, delivered to delegates at the on-going ANC national elective conference. (News24)

-- Initial reaction from business groupings and industry bodies was to welcome the election of Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa as the new leader of the African National Congress (ANC), and also call for ethical leadership.

Ramaphosa was elected as the ANC's president at the party's national conference in Johannesburg on Monday with 2,440 votes, while Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma received 2,261 votes.(Fin24).

-- New African National Congress (ANC) President Cyril Ramaphosa will now be hoping for as many of his supporters as possible to make it into the 80-member National Executive Committee (NEC) with the top six split down the middle.

The top six leadership elections saw Ramaphosa come out on top as president, but powerful and controversial provincial party bosses -- Mpumalanga's David Mabuza and the Free State's Ace Magashule -- in the positions of Deputy President and Secretary-General respectively. (Eyewitness News) Enditem