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South Africa - Pretoria - 13 March 2023. Councilors singing ahead of election of the City of Tshwane speaker. Videos: Oupa Mokoena/African News Agency(ANA)

13 March 2023. The SANDF has confirmed that it has been deployed to assist in hospitals due to the strike action by workers affiliated with the National Education, Health and Allied Workers’ Union (Nehawu). In a brief statement, SANDF spokesperson Brigadier General Andries Mokoena Mahapa said the SANDF has deployed military health-care practitioners from the South African Military Health Services following a request for assistance by the Department of Health (DOH) due to the strike action by workers affiliated with Nehawu across the country.

Today, on Monday, 13 March 2023, the Democratic Alliance is picketing at the biggest ministerial estate in South Africa, Bryntirion, to send a strong message to the government. At the picket, DA Leader, John Steenhuisen, is speaking out against the Ministerial Handbook that is currently nothing but a blank cheque for ANC looting. Video Oupa Mokoena / African News Agncy (ANA)

Struggle veteran Peter Jones, who was the last person to see Steve Biko alive when they were arrested by apartheid police, died after suffering a stroke. Jones had been involved in the Struggle in the 1970s and was part of the generation of leaders that fought against apartheid. Biko and Jones were leaders of the Black People’s Convention and were arrested at a roadblock on their way to Cape Town in 1977. That was the last time that Jones saw his comrade alive and Biko would later die in prison. The two men had been on a mission to unite liberation movements at the time. An official provincial commemoration service was held at St George’s Cathedral in Cape Town. Dean Michael Weeder officiated the service Video : Tracey Adams / African News Agency (ANA)

South Africa - Cape Town - 11 March 2023 - Cape Town’s Twelfth World Naked Bike Ride took place on Saturday. It is an annual event in over 74 cities around the world. The reason for this public display of skin is to make a stand against the burning of fossil fuels, which is contributing to climate change and ecological disasters. The signs of which are becoming more evident every day. Participants rode as a collective to call for South Africa to embark on a just energy transition and switch from coal-fired power to renewable energy, which is the cheapest form of energy available. Species extinction, ecosystem collapse, water scarcity, and food insecurity. The devastating impact of our addiction to fossil fuels is undeniable. Climate change quite simply is the biggest threat that the human species and our planet has ever faced. South Africa is one of the largest greenhouse gas (GHG) emitters in the world because 90% of our power is still derived from coal - the dirtiest of all fossil fuels. South Africa’s top polluter Eskom is responsible for nearly 40pc of the country’s GHG emissions. While contributing to the climate crisis, it has also corrupted our energy sector, drained our taxes, and plunged us into darkness.

South Africa - Cape Town - 11 March 2023 - Cape Town’s Twelfth World Naked Bike Ride took place on Saturday. It is an annual event in over 74 cities around the world. The reason for this public display of skin is to make a stand against the burning of fossil fuels, which is contributing to climate change and ecological disasters. The signs of which are becoming more evident every day. Participants rode as a collective to call for South Africa to embark on a just energy transition and switch from coal-fired power to renewable energy, which is the cheapest form of energy available. Species extinction, ecosystem collapse, water scarcity, and food insecurity. The devastating impact of our addiction to fossil fuels is undeniable. Climate change quite simply is the biggest threat that the human species and our planet has ever faced. South Africa is one of the largest greenhouse gas (GHG) emitters in the world because 90% of our power is still derived from coal - the dirtiest of all fossil fuels. South Africa’s top polluter Eskom is responsible for nearly 40pc of the country’s GHG emissions. While contributing to the climate crisis, it has also corrupted our energy sector, drained our taxes, and plunged us into darkness.

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UCT Students protesting at the upper and lower campus after clashes with police where two students were arrested. The protest is about the current fee blocks

Struggle veteran Peter Jones, who was the last person to see Steve Biko alive when they were arrested by apartheid police, died after suffering a stroke. Jones had been involved in the Struggle in the 1970s and was part of the generation of leaders that fought against apartheid. Biko and Jones were leaders of the Black People’s Convention and were arrested at a roadblock on their way to Cape Town in 1977. That was the last time that Jones saw his comrade alive and Biko would later die in prison. The two men had been on a mission to unite liberation movements at the time. An official provincial commemoration service was held at St George’s Cathedral in Cape Town. Dean Michael Weeder officiated the service Video : Tracey Adams / African News Agency (ANA)

Struggle veteran Peter Jones, who was the last person to see Steve Biko alive when they were arrested by apartheid police, died after suffering a stroke. Jones had been involved in the Struggle in the 1970s and was part of the generation of leaders that fought against apartheid. Biko and Jones were leaders of the Black People’s Convention and were arrested at a roadblock on their way to Cape Town in 1977. That was the last time that Jones saw his comrade alive and Biko would later die in prison. The two men had been on a mission to unite liberation movements at the time. An official provincial commemoration service was held at St George’s Cathedral in Cape Town. Dean Michael Weeder officiated the service Video : Tracey Adams / African News Agency (ANA)

South Africa - Pretoria - 08 March 2023. Tshwane University of Technology SRC Secretary-General (Pretoria West Campus) Zakhele Ntuli talks about the on going strike at the Campus. Videos: Oupa Mokoena/African News Agency(ANA)

Medical personnel joined a protest held by the National Public Service Workers Union (NPSWU) to the Provincial Legislature calling for the department of Health to seize its termination of employment contracts at Brackengate Hospital, also known as Brackengate Hospital of Hope. The temporary field hospital was commissioned during the height of the Covid-19 pandemic to provide extra beds for Covid-19 patients.

WATCH | Capetonians and music lovers alike braved the slight drizzle and cold to listen to award-winning Afro-soul and Jazz musician Mandisi Dyantis, croon his popular and latest hits at the Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens. The Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens in partnership with the City of Cape Town hosts popular weekly instalments of the Kirstenbosch Summer Sunset Concerts. https://www.iol.co.za/capeargus Pictures: Ayanda Ndamane/African News Agency (ANA)

South Africa- Johannesburg- Helen Joseph protest. 06 March 2023. A group on Nehawu members protest outside Helen Joseph hospital buying tyres. Operations at the hospital are still ongoing as the group of workers sing and chant amid a small police presence. Picture: Timothy Bernard African News Agency

South Africa Cape Town- 06 - March- 2023 - Five suspects appeared at the Wynberg Magistrate’s Court charged with robbery with aggravating circumstances. They were found in possession of items belonging to German national Nick Frischke. Photographer Ayanda Ndamane African News Agency (ANA)

South Africa Cape Town- 06 - March- 2023 - Five suspects appeared at the Wynberg Magistrate’s Court charged with robbery with aggravating circumstances. They were found in possession of items belonging to German national Nick Frischke. Photographer Ayanda Ndamane African News Agency (ANA)

South Africa - Cape Town - 1 March 2023 - A candlelight vigil was held on Hout Bay beach by the community of Hangberg for German tourist, Nick Frischke, who went missing on a hiking trail two weeks ago. While Nick's family remains optimistic, hope that the 22-year-old will be found alive is fading fast after three of the five men arrested for being in possession of items belonging to him, confessed to robbing and stabbing him. Hout Bay police reported that Frischke’s backpack and cellphone were recovered, as well as a kitchen knife. The knife is being examined for DNA evidence. Photographer: Armand Hough. African News Agency (ANA)

South Africa - Johannesburg - 02 March 2023 - Frustrated Wits students have on Wednesday blocked the entry gates to the campus in protest action demanding accommodation and financial support. The University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, is a multi-campus South African public research university situated in the northern areas of central Johannesburg. It is more commonly known as Wits University or Wits. Video: Itumeleng English African News Agency (ANA)

Following the shooting of 11 people of which 2 died the minister of police Bheki Cele visits Westbury to enforce police presence.

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Watch: Media Briefing by Vincent Magwenya on the President's Public Programme

Presidential Spokesperson Vincent Magwenya briefs the media at the Union Buildings on the President's public programme