Top news items in major S. African media outlets

CAPE TOWN, Jan. 31 (Xinhua) -- The following are news items in South African major news outlets on Wednesday:

-- The African National Congress (ANC) leadership will meet President Jacob Zuma to discuss "options" to avoid him being impeached or voted out by Parliament, ANC Chairperson Gwede Mantashe has confirmed.

"There is no decision or instruction to recall him, but there is a debate on what is in the air, the question of what is the best option, better than (the) possibility of impeachment and a vote of no confidence, or we do something different," Mantashe said on Tuesday after a meeting of the party's National Working Committee. (News24)

-- South African Parliament's Tourism Portfolio Committee expressed concern on Tuesday that the recent spike in attacks on tourists in Cape Town may affect tourism.

A 56-year-old man was stabbed to death while hiking in the city on Sunday, two weeks after a group of nine people were ambushed by knife-wielding attackers.(Eyewitness News).

-- South African Parliament's sub-committee on the rules of the National Assembly met on Tuesday to finalize issues around the process of impeaching a sitting president.

The sub-committee drafted a report aimed at impeaching a sitting President in line with the Constitution. (South African Broadcasting Corporation) Enditem