Top news items in major S. African media outlets

CAPE TOWN, March 4 (Xinhua) -- The following are news items in South African major news outlets on Sunday.

-- It will take time to figure out the interrelationships between the various companies in the Gupta family's crumbling empire.

The business rescue practitioners appointed to run seven Gupta companies will have their first meetings with creditors this week. (City Press)

-- Deputy National Police Commissioner for crime detection, Lt-Gen Lebeoana Jacob Tsumane on Saturday urged police to use their weapons, the tools of their trade, when they come under attack by criminals.

Tsumane was speaking at the funeral of Constable Kuhle Mateta in Ngcobo in the Eastern Cape, who was one of five police officers shot dead by a criminal gang at Ngcobo police station on February 21. (South African Broadcasting Corporation)

-- The Transport Department on Saturday made fresh promises to resolve the ongoing violence between rival taxi associations following the death of a taxi driver.

This came after Siyabonga Ngcobo was shoved into the boot of his car, kidnapped and set on fire in Sunnyside in Pretoria on Thursday. (Eyewitness News) Enditem