A selection of images of the past week by ANA photographers around the country.
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1/12: South Africa – Johannesburg – 22 July 2021 – Members of the South African National Defence Force and other law enforcement agencies embarked in an operation at Boiketlong informal settlement to locate looted items during recent protests in Sobokeng, the Thabong mall which its closest to to the informal settlement was looted few weeks ago. Gauteng.Picture: Itumeleng English/African News Agency(ANA)
2/12: South Africa – Johannesburg – 20 July 2021 – An inmates at the Johannesburg Management Area seated after receiving his vaccination during the launch of vaccination programme for Correctional Services Officials and Inmates.Picture: Itumeleng English/African News Agency(ANA)
3/12: South Africa – Cape Town 20-July-2021 Long queues near the N2 highway bridge in Borcherds Quarry Road next to Nyanga in Cape Town, as the Golden Arrow buses continues to load in Borcherds near the N2 as taxi violence continues. Photographer Ayanda Ndamane /African News Agency (ANA)
4/12: South Africa – Durban – 22 July 2021 – Police and SANDF man a roadblock leading to KwaNxamalala, Nkandla, KwaZulu-Natal where the funeral of Michael Zuma, younger brother of former president Jacob Zuma was held on July 22, 2021. KwaZulu-Natal Premier Sihle Zikalala was also present at the funeral. Picture: Doctor Ngcobo/African News Agency(ANA)
5/12: South Africa – Durban – 20 July 2021 – Kids attending a creche and workers were trapped for hours at a building on fire in Durban Joe Slove street in the CBD. It was not yet clear what had started the firePicture: Doctor Ngcobo/African News Agency(ANA)
6/12: South Africa – Durban – 20 July 2021 – Our natural environment could not escape the negative effects of the recent civil unrest unfolding in KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng it appears. The eThekwini Municipality reported mass fish and crustacean deaths along the Umhlanga and Umdhloti Lagoons, north of Durban. According to reports, the die-off could possibly be attributed to the thousands of litres of run-off water – contaminated with hazardous chemicals – coming from an industrial chemical plant in Cornubia which was destroyed and set ablaze by looters on Tuesday. Basil Pather conservation manager for Umhlanga and Dave Bryant DA Shadow Minister for Environment, Forestry, Fisheries inspect the dead fish at the Ohlanga River lagoon.Picture: Shelley Kjonstad/African News Agency(ANA)
7/12: South Africa – Johannesburg – 16 July 2021 – The Community of Jabulani Mall in Soweto during a cleaning campaign after mall was looted. the Picture:Nokuthula Mbatha/African News Agency(ANA)
8/12: South Africa – KwaZulu Natal – 20 July 2021 – KwaMamdikazi centre in Marainhill now are deserted. Not a single shop or any facility was left after the after FREE ZUMA protest and looting of shops in KZN last week. Ethekwini mayor Kaunda was there today asseSsing civil unrest damage in Ethekwini. Picture: Nqobile Mbonambi African news agency ANA
9/12: South Africa- Cape Town – 20 July 2021- A group of workers from Khayelitsha who have been waiting for hours for a transport to work,gets on the Golden Arrow bus in Site C.The delays in transport has been caused by a taxi violence that has claimed 80 lives since January.Photograph : Phando Jikelo/African News Agency (ANA)
10/12: SOUTH AFRICA – Cape Town – 20 July 2021 – A pair of Egyptian Geese and nine baby chicks cross Main Road, Muizenberg on Monday. Picture – Tracey Adams/African News Agency (ANA)
11/12: Muizenberg. Cape Town. 170721. Internationally renowned South African author, poet and prolific writer Dr Sindiwe Magona endorses reading as a form of educating oneself. Picture: Ian Landsberg.
12/12: SOUTH AFRICA – Durban – 19 July 2021 – SAPS and Metro Police confiscate goods believed to be stolen in Mansel and areas in and around Durban as protests spread across the province.Picture: Motshwari Mofokeng/African News Agency (ANA).