The British ex-pat discovered a nasty surprise in her outdoor tree on Thursday, when she came home from work to find a three-metre (10-foot) python coiled around the potted evergreen.

Watch: Farmer, citizens react in true SA-fashion as python climbs tree Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's a massive snake slithering up a tree on a farm in the North West, and SA is loving the ...