Top news items in major S. African news outlets

CAPE TOWN, Feb. 6 (Xinhua) -- The following are news items in South Africa's major media outlets on Tuesday:

-- President Jacob Zuma told the African National Congress' Top Six leaders during their meeting on Sunday night that the "people still love him," sources inside the party's National Working Committee (NWC) said on Monday.

The officials gave the NWC feedback following their two hours of deliberations with Zuma, during which they asked him to resign. (News24)

-- President Jacob Zuma's fate now lies with the African National Congress's National Executive Committee (NEC).

The party's National Working Committee, which met on Monday, has resolved to convene a special NEC meeting to discuss Zuma's future on the eve of the State of the Nation Address. (Eyewitness News)

-- The presiding officers of Parliament will on Tuesday hold a meeting with political parties represented in the National Assembly. Some of the opposition parties are hoping that the meeting will resolve their concerns around who will deliver the State of the Nation Address on Thursday.

The Democratic Alliance and the Economic Freedom Front wrote to National Assembly Speaker Baleka Mbete requesting that President Jacob Zuma not be allowed to deliver the address.(South African Broadcasting Corporation). Enditem