The Pretoria High Court dismissed an application on Friday by former African National Congress Women’s League (ANCWL) president Winnie Madikizela-Mandela and broker Addy Moolman for leave to appeal against dozens of fraud convictions. The judge ruled that another court was unlikely to come to a different conclusion.

Were the SPCA to cram as many animals into a cage as inmates are packed into a prison cell, it would be prosecuted for animal cruelty, Pretoria High Court judge Eberhardt Bertelsmann said on Friday. Bertelsmann said the crisis in SA’s prisons has ”huge Constitutional implications for the whole criminal justice system”.

Arthur Miller, a giant of 20th century theatre still working into the 21st century, has died at his home in Connecticut, aged 89. Tributes poured in from the international theatre community, which had somehow assumed that the creator of an American archetype in Willy Loman, noble tragic hero of Death of a Salesman, would live and write forever.

The shooting of 13-year-old Devin Brown by the Los Angeles Police Department has sparked anger in the impoverished, largely African American community of South Los Angeles, and has left the US police department once again facing accusations of brutality.

Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian leader, will confront militant leaders tonight to demand that they stop firing mortars and rockets at Israeli settlements and towns. Dozens of missiles were launched on Thursday after Israeli soldiers killed two Palestinians in separate incidents.

Roman Abramovich has poured money into Stamford Bridge and his roubles seem to have duly delivered the championship. But is buying success best for the game? Here are two different views on the matter. Will Buckley doesn’t mind the money, while Ian Ridley presents the case against.