ANAPIX: Week in Pictures

1/16: South Africa – Cape Town – 23 March 2021 – One person has been knocked down and killed, and four police officers were injured in Kraaifontein this morning, where police are on the scene attempting to quell violent protests. Public Order Policing members were deployed on Wednesday morning to maintain law and order in Cape Town areas where violence erupted during protest action. It is reported that thousands of protesters are demonstrating in Wallacedene, Kraaifontein, where police had to open fire on them. Pictures from the scene also showed that a police armoured vehicle ploughed off the road damaging three structures, leaving four officers injured. Photographer: Armand Hough/African News Agency(ANA)

2/16: SouthAfrica – Cape Town – 14 February 2021 – Akhahlulwa Shweni (2). The Shweni family lives in a small shack in Wallacedene. Mother, Lindiwe Dlamini(31), Father, Mawethu Shweni (40) and their six children have found themselves in an administrative nightmare. Kraaifontein community organization is appealing to the public to help support a family of eight living in extreme poverty. According to the organization, everyone in the family has no documents, even birth certificates making it hard for them to get government support, get school placements and jobs. The organization is trying to raise funds to assist the mother who has been referred back to her hometown in the Eastern Cape to get her birth certificate prior to getting her ID. Photographer: Armand Hough/African News Agency(ANA)

3/16: South Africa – Durban – 10 April 2021 – Fathima Zahra Suleman,22 with her brother Ismail Suleman,18,praying at the Soofie Saheb Mazaar Mosque in Durban North as next week muslim around the world will begin Ramadan fasting.Picture:Zanele Zulu/African News Agency (ANA)

4/16: South Africa – Pretoria – 14 April 2021. A group of angry mamelodi East residents protesting outside Mamelodi East police station following the death of man who was allegedly shot and killed by Tshwane Metro Police.Picture: Oupa Mokoena/African News Agency(ANA)

5/16: South Africa – Cape Town – 12 April 2021 – President of the MJC Shykh Irfaan Abrahams during the Crescent Observers Society (COS) and Muslim clergy gathering at the Three Anchor Bay in Sea Point,Cape Town to pray and sighting of the Moon.The sighting of the moon by the COS marks the start the holy month of Ramadan,today the moon was not sighted meaning the fasting will only start on wednesday .Photograph:Phando Jikelo/African News Agency(ANA)

6/16: SOUTH AFRICA – Durban – 15 April 2021 – African National Congress (ANC) president Cyril Ramaphosa led a by-election campaign in Hammarsdale, KwaZulu-Natal on Thursday April 15, 2021. Voters will go to the polls on the 21st of April. This round of by-elections will be the first to be held after lockdown measures were tightened due to the second wave of coronavirus (COVID-19) infections in December. Picture: Bongani Mbatha/African News Agency(ANA)

7/16: South Africa – Durban – 15 April 2021 – ANATOPIX – Councellor’s office was gutted by fire in the early hour of Thursday morning at Wilberdatch near Chatsworth Bongani Mbatha /African News Agency (ANA)

8/16: South Africa – Durban – 15 April 2021 – Rickshaws in Durban New beach gather around in the shade under the trees with their carriages having a social chat and restingPicture; Doctor Ngcobo/African News Agency(ANA)

9/16: South Africa – Cape Town – 08 April 2021 – Capuchin monkey at the World of Birds Wildlife Sanctuary and Monkey Park in Houtbay. Pictures: Brendan Magaar/African News Agency(ANA)

10/16: SOUTH AFRICA – Cape Town – 10 April 2021 – Standalone – Talitha Noble conservation coordinator for the Two Oceans Aquarium Education Foundation helped with the rescue of Sea Turtle Hatchlings which washed up on the Western Cape beaches. This is an annual occurrence as Loggerhead Turtles hatch on the beaches of Nothern Kwazulu-Natal and are then carried south by the Agulhas current. Due to injury, dehydration and hypothermia, some of these hatchlings unfortunately wash up onto the beaches of the Western Cape. Picture: Tracey Adams/African News Agency (ANA)

11/16: South Africa – Pretoria – 15 April 2021 – Ceremonial parade during the State of the Capital Address at Tshwane House.Picture: Thobile Mathonsi/African News Agency (ANA)

12/16: South Africa – Pretoria – 11 April 2021 – Miss Bachelorette South Africa 2021 Khanyisa Koto.Picture: Thobile Mathonsi/African News Agency(ANA)

13/16: South Africa – Johannesburg – 14 April 2021 9 dead 11 injured at the abandoned Kaserne building near kwa Mai Mai East of Johannesburg. People built shacks inside the building. Photo Simphiwe Mbokazi/Africannewsagency(ANA)

14/16: South Africa – Johannesburg – 11 April 2021 Rabieridge standoff between land invaders and the Metro police. Photo Simphiwe Mbokazi/Africannewsagency(ANA)

15/16: South Africa- Cape Town- 15-April-2021 Minister of Tourism Ms Mmamoloko Kubayi-Ngubane during the official opening of the new 28-storey high rise building Hotel Sky in the City of Cape Town. Hotel Sky is a 28-storey high rise building in Cape Town. One of the primary goals of the project owners is to build hotels in central locations while maintaining affordability.Providing affordable leisure in the Metropole has massive potential to drive Destination enhancement by improving the quality of product offerings and diversification, through upgrades, refurbishment and maintenance to support an inclusive tourism recovery at a time when the industry has faced consecutive negative growth due to COVID-19.Infrastructure projects capitalised and commissioned by Government and the Private Sector are central to the Economic Recovery Plan as they provide the much-needed job opportunities, upskilling of workers as well as general economic activity with potential to increasing GDP growth.Hotel Sky is an excellent display of Inner-City Revitalisation and the use of technology to enhance efficiency in the workplace.Photographer Ayanda Ndamane/African News Agency(ANA)

16/16: South Africa Cape Town 14 April 2021 Bongani Magatyana from Site C Khayelitsha has made history of becoming the first African to be commissioned to write music for Harvard University in its 170 year history. Mgatyana who currently conducts the newly formed Khayelitsha Childrens Choir will write isiXhosa songs for the University. Photographer Ayanda Ndamane African News Agency(ANA)