Sometimes it’s good to check in with what international media outlets are saying about the happenings here at home, and they don’t come much bigger than the BBC.

By now we’re all pretty much up to speed with the Guptas, JZ, Bell Pottinger and all that dirty laundry, so let’s keep things simple.

Here’s how the BBC tee up their video:

In South Africa, allegations of high-level corruption are being fuelled by a huge leak of confidential emails.

Mixed up in the scandal is a British PR company, Bell Pottinger, which has been accused of fuelling racial tensions in order to distract attention from a powerful family with links to President Zuma. Andrew Harding reports…

Trigger warning – you hear Jacob Zuma’s cackling in the video below, which usually sets my blood boiling.

Dirty, rotten scoundrels.

[source:bbc]