Top news items in major S. African media outlets

CAPE TOWN, Jan. 15 (Xinhua) -- The following are news items in South African major news outlets on Monday:

--South Africans shouldn't be nervous about the ruling African National Congress's decision to seek land expropriation without compensation, party President Cyril Ramaphosa has said.

"Land is a very broad, as well as a complex issue and it has to be handled very delicately because around land there is quite a lot of emotion," Ramaphosa said in an interview broadcast on Sunday. (Fin24)

-- Members of the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) have closed down South African branches of the international clothing retail giant H&M, including at Menlyn Mall in Pretoria, and threaten to close down any other shop that behaves in a racist manner.

-- On Saturday EFF members stormed the Swedish retailer's stores in up-market malls in Pretoria, Johannesburg and Cape Town, upending racks and pushing over shop dummies. (Independent Online)

-- Police are appealing for information on the identities of seven men who were shot dead and dumped near a mine shaft on the East Rand near Johannesburg.

The victims, believed to be illegal miners, were found on Sunday morning by a member of the public who called the police. (Eyewitness News) Enditem