ANAPIX: Week in Pictures: 15072021

By Ian Landsberg Last updated May 14, 2021

South Africa – Cape Town – 13 May 2021 – One hundred and seventy nine pots of Aknie are prepared at the Callies Rugby Grounds in Rylands. Nakhlistan aims to cook 179 x 130lt pots of Aknie to feed over 90 000 on Eid-ul-Fitr. Nakhlistan has become a household name, synonymous with caring for the needy and cooking huge pots of food for distribution amongst the less fortunate. Nakhlistan was founded 37 years ago by a group of friends, who saw the need within the community to cook food on the eve of Eid-ul-Fitr in 1984. After 29 or 30 days of Fasting, Muslim celebrate Eid-ul-Fitr. These friends realised that many of the needy did not have food on this day of Celebration. They then decided to cook two pots of food for distribution to the needy on that day of Eid-ul-Fitr. 1984 was year 1 that Nakhlistan cooked food and 2021 will be year 38. Picture Henk Kruger/African News Agency(ANA)

A collection of images of the week that was by ANA Photographers from around the country.

1/11: South Africa – Cape Town – 12 May 2021 – Thousands of people joined a mass Palestine protest march in Cape Town CBD on Wednesday in support of Palestinian people who came under deadly attacks by the Israeli government. The international community have lambasted the forced removals of Palestinians in the Jerusalem neighbourhood of Sheikh Jarrah. Picture Henk Kruger/African News Agency(ANA)

2/11: SOUTH AFRICA – Durban -12 May 2021 – SOUTH AFRICA Cape Town – 5 June 2019 – L- R is family all gathered at the North beach home in Durban. They each brough a pot of food or a special dish for the table. At around 5pm, the family sat down to a feast which marked the end of the holy month of Ramadaan. Eid Ul Fitr is a celebration which marks the end of the holy month of Ramadaan. Children feast on sweets and cakes.Picture: Motshwari Mofokeng/African News Agency (ANA)

3/11: South Africa – Pretoria – 11 May 2021. The funeral parlor industry protesting at the Department of Home Affairs as part of their national shutdown.Picture: Oupa Mokoena/African News Agency(ANA)

4/11: South Africa – Pretoria – 12 May 2021 – Nurses light candles to comemorate International Nurses Day at the CSIR ICC. Picture: Jacques Naude/African News Agency(ANA)

5/11: South Africa – Durban – 07 May 2021 – Eid Mabarak – Liya Aziz(14) and Aman Aziz(8) from Pigeonwood drive in Westville Durban. Picture: Nqobile Mbonambi Africannewsagency(ANA)

6/11: South Africa -Cape Town – 12- March – 2021 Healthcare workers getting vaccine at Gatesville Melomed vaccination centre in Athlone. Massive queues at Gatesville Melomed vaccination centre as healthcare workers line up for the vaccine. The Melomed Hospital in Gatesville has become the first private hospital to offer private sector health-care workers Covid-19 vaccinations.The Rylands Civic Centre opposite the hospital was officially opened by Health MEC Nomafrench Mbombo. Photographer Ayanda Ndamane AFrican News Agency (ANA)

7/11: South Africa – Cape Town- 10-May-2021 Shukushukuma Informal Settlement community in Site C Khayelitsha protesting in Landsdown road after City of Cape Town failed to clean this area since October last year.The drains are block because of dirt resulting to houses flooding Photographer Ayanda Ndamane African News Agency (ANA)

8/11: South Africa – Cape Town – 13 May 2021 – Chace Damonse(4). Children at Clever Kids Educare celebrate Eid. The kids are having a special day as an innitiative by the educare to introduce the little ones to different cultures, religions and the traditions thereof. Eid al-Fitr also called the “Festival of Breaking the Fast” or Lesser Eid, or simply Eid is a religious holiday celebrated by Muslims worldwide that marks the end of the month-long dawn-to-sunset fasting of Ramadan. The date for the start of any lunar Hijri month varies based on when the new moon is sighted by local religious authorities. Pictures: Brendan Magaar/African News Agency(ANA)

9/11: South Africa – Cape Town – 12 May 2021 – Nora De Kock celebrates her 111th birthday with family and friends. Pictures: Brendan Magaar/African News Agency(ANA)

10/11: South Africa – Johannesburg – 11 May 2021 – ANC Deputy Secretary General of the ANC Jesse Duarte briefing the media on the outcomes of the NEC at their head office in Johannesburg. Photo Simphiwe Mbokazi/ Africannewsagency(ANA)

11/11: South Africa – Johannesburg – 07 May 2021 – Actor, director and playwright Dr John Kani received the 2021 Pragnell Shakespeare Birthday Award.Picture: Nokuthula Mbatha/African News Agency(ANA)

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