ANAPIX: Focus on the week in Pictures
A selection of images of the past week taken by ANA Photographers.
1/18: Cape Town 8-6-2021 wSouth Africa – Pretoria – 04 June 2021- 37 year old Gosiame Thamara Sithole is pregnant with decuplets. Picture: Thobile Mathonsi/African News Agency (ANA)
2/18: South Africa – Pretoria – 04 June 2021- 37 year old Gosiame Thamara Sithole she is pregnant with octuplets. Picture: Thobile Mathonsi/African News Agency (ANA)
3/18: South Africa – Durban – 09 June 2021 – ANATOPIX – Standalone – Street light poles along Dumisani Makhaye Drive, M19 and surrounding areas have been cut down by people to connect illegal electricity at a near by informal settlement. Picture: Bongani Mbatha /African News Agency (ANA)
4/18: South Africa – Johannesburg – 10 June 2021 – Leader of the Economic Freedom Fighters(EFF) Julius Malema addresses members of the media, calling for schools to close with immediate effect. Picture: Itumeleng English/African News Agency(ANA)
5/18: South Africa – Pretoria – 07 June 2021. The Economic Freedom Fighters Labour Desk march to Tshwane House against the salaries paid to 7000 alleged ghost employees. Picture: Oupa Mokoena/African News Agency(ANA)
6/18: South Africa-Cape Town 10-June-2021- EFF picket in Tokia against what they alleged to be racism. Last year a fruit tree was poisoned by a spiteful passerby after complaints that it attracted the wrong crowd. The owner reportedly did not mind that homeless people and children picked the fruit that hung. This People Power tree was poisoned within 3 weeks of Mckey announcing that he intended to planting 1000 trees in Khayelitsha says Arthur Mckey. Photographer Ayanda Ndamane African News Agency (ANA)
7/18: South Africa – Durban – 10 June 2021 – Durban CBD came to a standstill on Thursday afternoon when a reported lone gunman stormed into one of the buildings on Anton Lembede street and held people at hostage allegedly with a gun and an explosivePicture; Doctor Ngcobo/African News Agency(ANA)
8/18: South Africa – Durban – 9 June 2021 – Legendary comrades runner Blanche Moila who has run 17 Comrades will be taking part in the Virtual Comrades this Sunday.Picture: Shelley Kjonstad/African News Agency(ANA)
9/18: South Africa Johannesburg IEC Local government elections 09 June 2021. The launch of the local government elections took place in Sandton on Wednesday. The IEC gave the green lights for elections in October amid some concerns that the elections could be a super spreader event. Sy Mamabolo Picture: Timothy Bernard/African News Agency(ANA)
10/18: Howard Plaatjies and Stephen Nthite
11/18: South Africa – Johannesburg – 09 June 2021 – Carolyn Steyn and former President Thabo Mbeki at the Steyn City School to reveal the worlds largest Springbok Blanket, the blanket coverd almost the entire rugby field at Steyb City School.Picture:Nokuthula Mbatha/African News Agency(ANA)
12/18: South Africa – Johannesburg – 09 June 2021 – Carolyn Steyn challenged new and long term committed KnitWits to keep their fingers moving to knit and crochet the world’s largest Springbok Blanket, the blanket covered almost the entire rugby field at Steyn City School.Picture: Nokuthula Mbatha/African News Agency(ANA)
13/18: South Africa – Cape Town – 04 February 2021 – Rooibos tea being processed at Carmien Tea near Clanwilliam. The Western Cape Government welcomes the announcement that the European Commission has approved the registration of the designation ‘Rooibos’/’Red Bush’ in its Register of Protected Designations of Origin and Protected Geographical Indications. According to a statement released by the EU Delegation to South Africa, Rooibos / Red Bush is the first African food to receive the status of a protected designation of origin in the EU register. Product names registered as protected designations of origin have strong links to their origin since every production, processing, and preparation aspect must take place in that specific origin using recognised know-how. In contrast, a product protected as a protected geographical indication requires that at least one of the stages of production, processing or preparation takes place in the place of origin. The recognition by the European Commission of the ‘Rooibos’/’Red Bush’ Product of Origin was published in the Official Journal of the European Union on 31 May 2021. According to the South African Rooibos Council, the Rooibos industry provides income and employment to approximately 8 000 agri workers. In addition, other jobs are created in upstream activities such as processing, packaging, retailing etc.Picture Henk Kruger/African News Agency(ANA)
14/18: South Africa – Cape Town – 7 June 2021 – Turtle Rehabilitation Programme launches at the V&A Aquarium for World Oceans Day. On 6 November 2014, Lieze Swart of Oceans and Coasts found an injured, sub-adult green turtle on a beach in the De Hoop Nature Reserve, about four hours drive from Cape Town. The injured animal was brought to the Aquarium by Darrell Anders from the Department of Environmental Affairs, and what followed was an intensive period of rehabilitation. On arrival, the turtle weighed 16.6kg, had severe bruising and a possible fracture of the bottom shell (or plastron), with loss of scales and exposed bone. It was also positively buoyant (or floating), a condition which can occur owing to a number of reasons. They named him Bob because he bobbed around in his tank. Amazingly Bob has healed so well that you can hardly see where the fracture site was and Bob’s eyesight is also gradually returning. Incredibly the turtle now feeds by itself and weighs a wonderful 18.8kg. The primary aim is to release Bob, but this will only be determined at a much later stage and will be dependent on Bob’s health and eyesight. Photographer: Armand Hough/African News Agency(ANA)
15/18: South Africa – Cape Town – 7 June 2021 – The V&A Waterfront and Two Oceans Aquarium celebrates World Oceans Day. World Oceans Day is an international day that takes place annually on 8 June. The concept was originally proposed in 1992 by Canada’s International Centre for Ocean Development and the Ocean Institute of Canada at the Earth Summit UN Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Photographer: Armand Hough/African News Agency(ANA)
16/18: SOUTH AFRICA – Cape Town – 05 June 2021 – Secret Sunrise at St James Beach consisted of an hour long guided session (from 730am) to celebrate life. Music and facilitation happens through headphones. The theme of the gathering was “Winter Wanderland”. Picture – Tracey Adams/African News Agency (ANA)
17/18: Goodwood. 24 May 2013. Actress Shaleen Surtie-Richards at the Music Alla Kaap show where Percy Sledge performed at the Grand Arena, Grandwest. Picture: Ian Landsberg
18/18: South Africa – Durban – 08 June 2021 – South African countries growers now expect to export as many as 158,7 million cartons of fruits in 2021.And,for the first time ever,some of those fruits will end up on shelves in the Philippines.Picture:Zanele Zulu/African News Agency (ANA)
