CAPE TOWN, Oct. 21 (Xinhua) -- The following are news highlights in South African major news outlets on Sunday.

-- Deputy President David Mabuza said on Saturday that his office plans to use the outcomes of the Health Summit as a springboard to drastically improve the sector.

Mabuza gave the closing remarks at the two-day Presidential Health Summit in Boksburg, Johannesburg. (Eyewitness News)

-- At the first Boys' Assembly taking place in Johannesburg on Saturday, Social Development Deputy Minister Hendrietta Bogopane-Zulu spoke out against the increasing number of cases related to gender-based violence in the country.

Bogopane-Zulu's department was hosting the assembly in an attempt to curb gender-based violence in the country. (South African Broadcasting Corporation) Enditem