Top news items in major S. African news outlets

CAPE TOWN, Dec. 21 (Xinhua) -- The following are news items in South Africa's major news outlets on Thursday:

-- Newly elected African National Congress (ANC) President Cyril Ramaphosa launched a thinly veiled attack on his predecessor Jacob Zuma during his maiden speech at the party's national conference on Thursday morning.

Ramaphosa alluded that under his administration the ANC would not be a party of words but a party of action. (News24)

-- Newly elected African National Congress (ANC) President Cyril Ramaphosa has committed to land expropriation without compensation in a way that doesn't undermine the economy, agricultural production and food security.(Fin24)

-- Cyril Ramaphosa, the new leader of South Africa's governing African National Congress (ANC), said on Thursday he aims to stamp out corruption and pursue a policy of "radical economic transformation" that will speed up expropriation of land without compensation.

Ramaphosa, a 65-year-old union leader who became a businessman and is now one of South Africa's richest people, is likely to become the country's next president after elections in 2019, because of his party's electoral dominance. (Eyewitness News) Enditem