24 hours in pictures, 22 March 2021
A selection of some of the best photographs from South Africa and around the world.
Sotheby’s employees pose for photographers with an Original Concept for a ‘Barely Legal’ Poster (featuring Demi Moore) by British artist Banksyat Sotheby’s, London, Britain, 22 March 2021. The Modern Renaissance sale is expected to be the auction house’s first major sale of 2021. Picture: EPA-EFE/FACUNDO ARRIZABALAGA
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- Concerned citizens gather at the entrance to the Constitutional Court in Johannesburg calling on South Africans to defend democracy, the constitution, the rule of law, and accountability for state capture and corruption, on Human Rights Day, 22 March 2021. Picture: Michel Bega
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- Ali Gule , from Outa, joins other concerned citizens as they gather at the entrance to the Constitutional Court in Johannesburg calling on South Africans to defend democracy, the constitution, the rule of law, and accountability for state capture and corruption, on Human Rights Day, 22 March 2021. Picture: Michel Bega
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- A protester is detained by Victorian Police during an Extinction Rebellion environmental protest in Melbourne, Australia, 23 March 2021. Activist group Extinction Rebellion is holding a range of events in Australian capital cities, encouraging action on climate and environmental issues. Picture: EPA-EFE/JAMES ROSS
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- Health workers wearing overalls and protective masks at work in the intensive care unit of the San Filippo Neri hospital during the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic, in Rome, Italy, 22 March 2021. Picture: EPA-EFE/GIUSEPPE LAMI
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- Sotheby’s employees pose for photographers with an Original Concept for a ‘Barely Legal’ Poster (featuring Demi Moore) by British artist Banksyat Sotheby’s, London, Britain, 22 March 2021. The Modern Renaissance sale is expected to be the auction house’s first major sale of 2021. Picture: EPA-EFE/FACUNDO ARRIZABALAGA
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- Leader of the African Christian Democratic Party, Kenneth Meshoe (C) with members picket outside Constitutional Court in Johannesburg, 22 March 2021, in support of Chief Justice Mogoeng Moeng. Picture; Nigel Sibanda
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- African Christian Democratic Party members picket outside Constitutional Court in Johannesburg, 22 March 2021, in support of Chief Justice Mogoeng Moeng. Picture: Nigel Sibanda
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- Japan’s Satoko Miyahara practices during a training session prior to the 2021 ISU World Figure Skating Championships at the Stockholm Globe Arena in Stockholm, Sweden, on March 22, 2021. – The event is scheduled to be held from March 24 to March 28, 2021. (Photo by Pontus LUNDAHL / TT News Agency / AFP)
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- Bongani Ngoveni a Hennops Revival volunteer collecting trash on World Water day and Human Rights day along the Hennops River at the Irene Farm in Centurion, 22 March 2021. Picture: Jacques Nelles
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- Some of the trash collected on World Water day and Human Rights day collected along the Hennops River by volunteers at the Irene Farm in Centurion, 22 March 2021. Picture: Jacques Nelles
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Crime scene investigators walk outside the entrance of the King Soopers grocery store in Boulder, Colorado after a mass shooting on March 22, 2021. A gunman killed at least 10 people including a police officer at a grocery store in Colorado on Monday, March 22, police said, in the latest shooting to hit the western state — scene of two of the most infamous US mass murders.
The shooter is being held in custody and was injured, said Michael Dougherty, district attorney for Boulder County, located 30 miles (50 kilometers) northwest of the state capital Denver. (Photo by Jason Connolly / AFP)
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- A girl reacts as a health worker takes her nasal swab sample for Covid-19 coronavirus Rapid Antigen Test (RAT) as mandated by the civic authorities in Mumbai on March 22, 2021. (Photo by Indranil MUKHERJEE / AFP)
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- The Soyuz-2.1a carrier rocket with the Fregat upper stage and 38 satellites from 18 countries blasts off from the Russian-leased Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on March 22, 2021. (Photo by Handout / Russian Space Agency Roscosmos / AFP)
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- A woman takes a photo at the Old Town Square in Prague, on March 22, 2021, where thousands of crosses have been drawn onto the pavement to commemorate the first anniversary since the death of the first Czech coronavirus (Covid-19) patient. – Church bells rang out across the Czech Republic on March 22 to mark one year since the first Covid-19 fatality in the country with the highest per capita death rate in the world. (Photo by Michal Cizek / AFP)
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- A nurse takes care of a Covid-19 patient in the Covid-19 intensive care unit of the university hospital (Universitaetsklinikum) in Essen, western Germany, on March 22, 2021, amid the novel coronavirus / COVID-19 pandemic. (Photo by Ina FASSBENDER / AFP)
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- Police personnel march in front of activists of pro-farmer organisations during a protest rally supporting the ongoing farmers’ protest against the central government’s recent agricultural reforms, in Bangalore on March 22, 2021. (Photo by Manjunath Kiran / AFP)
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- This photo taken and received courtesy of an anonymous source via Facebook on March 22, 2021 shows a woman walking near burning barricades during a crackdown by security forces on demonstrations by protesters against the military coup in Mandalay. (Photo by Handout / FACEBOOK / AFP)
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- This photo taken and received courtesy of an anonymous source via Facebook on March 22, 2021 show residents setting free balloons with messages relating to “R2P”, or the “Responsibility to Protect” principle that the international community is justified in taking action against a state that is deemed to have failed to protect its population from atrocities, in Yangon’s Hlaing township, as security forces continue to crackdown on demonstrations by protesters against the military coup. (Photo by Handout / FACEBOOK / AFP)
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- A homeless person sleeps on the roof of a railway station in Dhaka on March 22, 2021. (Photo by Munir Uz zaman / AFP)
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- A man looks at a road inundated by floodwaters in Richmond suburb on March 22, 2021, as Sydney braced for its worst flooding in decades after record rainfall caused its largest dam to overflow and as deluges prompted mandatory mass evacuation orders along Australia’s east coast. (Photo by Saeed KHAN / AFP)
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