Top news items in major S. African media outlets

CAPE TOWN, Feb. 16 (Xinhua) -- The following are news items in South African major news outlets on Friday.

-- Officials at OR Tambo International Airport in Johannesburg have told Eyewitness News they're working with the Hawks, a special anti-crime unit, as they try to establish the whereabouts of Ajay Gupta, who is now considered a fugitive.

Gupta is wanted in connection with the fraud and money laundering investigation related to the Estina dairy farm project in the Free State. (Eyewitness News)

-- Styling himself as "a servant of the people of South Africa", Cyril Ramaphosa, shortly after being elected as president in the National Assembly on Thursday afternoon, said "South Africa must come first in everything we do."

As one of the first steps as president-elect, he announced that there would be meetings with the opposition parties to find ways of cooperation, and made a commitment to raise the tone and level of discussion in the House so that the focus fell on debates to resolve national issues, not chaos. (Daily Maverick)

-- South Africa's ports have all been placed on high alert to ensure that Ajay Gupta, elder brother of the controversial Gupta family, does not flee the country.

Ajay Gupta is now officially considered to be a fugitive after he failed to hand himself over to police. (South African Broadcasting Corporation) Enditem