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South African cricket captain Faf du Plessis says he feels 'sorry' for Australian captain Steve Smith, who was handed a year-long suspension in the recent ball-tampering scandal. SOUNDBITE
Darren Lehmann, coach of the scandal-tainted Australia cricket team, said Thursday he would quit after the fourth and final Test of a series in South Africa. SOUNDBITE
The World Food Programme's (WFP) Assistant Executive Director, Valerie Guarnieri, speaking from Rome during a UN briefing says that "27 million people have been affected by the El Nino-induced drought" in South Africa adding that almost four million children are suffering from "acute malnutrition". SOUNDBITE
Thailand's most popular politician Pita Limjaroenrat leaves the Constitutional Court in Bangkok after he was banned from politics for 10 years and his party dissolved over his attempt to reform the kingdom's royal defamation laws. The court voted "unanimously" to dissolve Pita's Move Forward Party (MFP) and ban its executive board for 10 years, a judge said. IMAGES
South Africa's ruling ANC expels its former leader ex-president Jacob Zuma for leading a rival party into elections following disciplinary proceedings. "Former President Jacob Zuma has actively impugned the integrity of the ANC and campaigned to dislodge the ANC from power while claiming that he had not yet severed his membership," ANC Secretary General Fikile Mbalula tells a press conference. SOUNDBITE