SOUTH AFRICA has been shocked by scenes of a blind-drunk young woman being sexually assaulted by a Big Brother housemate.

The incident turned the stomach of millions of viewers when it was broadcast live by a pay-TV conglomerate across Africa.

Viewers flooded newspapers and internet message boards with emails expressing outrage. Many of the emails contained photo clips from the program, which appeared to show housemate Richard Bezuidenhout, a 24-year-old film student from Tanzania, assaulting Ofunneka Molokwu, a 29-year-old medical assistant from Nigeria.