Zuma apology 'unwelcome'

[South Africa] The Pan Africanist Congress Youth League wants a committee to accompany the president on house visits "because we have realised that he cannot control himself".

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• Making sense of Zuma's statement

Single mom loses all her possessions in fire

[South Africa] Octavia Makhathini, the administrator for the Salvation Army Durban Central Corps, whose home was gutted by a fire last week, has been left with nothing except her cellphone, a handbag and the clothes on her back.

1 000 for sex braggart

[World] A Saudi appeals court has upheld a sentence of five years in jail and 1 000 lashes for a man who bragged about his sexual exploits on television.

Accused helped search for victim, court told

[South Africa] The Cape High Court has heard how the man accused of the 2008 murder of five-year-old Chelsea Jacobs helped the neighbourhood search for the little girl, wearing blood-stained trousers and shoes.

• Plea about-turn in Chelsea rape, murder trial
• Grandmother tells of brutal attack on Chelsea

'Kind' woman plotted her husband's death

[South Africa] Few Stilbaai residents were as "kind, generous and friendly" as Ruby Marais, the woman found guilty of orchestrating the murder of her wealthy husband, the Swellendam Circuit Court has heard.

• Ruby guilty of 'masterminding' murder
• Judgment in Ruby's murder trial expected