24 hours in pictures, 5 March 2021
News in pictures
A small group of protestors outside the Boksburg Magistrates court, 5 March 2021 where suspects are appearing in connection with the murder of Senzo Meyiwa in 2014. Picture: Neil McCartney
A selection of some of the best photographs from South Africa and around the world.
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- A man walks past a painted wall that is part of the #wepowerpublicartproject on the walls of the old Van Riebeek Medical Building in the Pretoria CBD, 5 March 2021. Picture: Jacques Nelles
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- Ntuthuko Shoba appears at Roodepoort magistrates court in Johannesburg, 5 March 2021, for ordering the murder of his lover Tshegofatso Pule who was eight months pregnant and was denied bail. Picture; Nigel Sibanda
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- A small group of protestors outside the Boksburg Magistrates court, 5 March 2021 where suspects are appearing in connection with the murder of Senzo Meyiwa in 2014. Picture: Neil McCartney
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- Protesters wear protective equipment and hold homemade shields as they prepare to face off against security forces during a demonstration against the military coup in Yangon on March 5, 2021. (Photo by STR / AFP)
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- Finnish skipper Ari Huusela celebrates with flares as he crosses the finish line on the 25th and last position of the Vendee Globe round-the-world solo sailing race onboard his boat “Stark” off the coast of Les Sables-d’Olonne, western France, on March 5, 2021. (Photo by LOIC VENANCE / AFP)
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- WASHINGTON, DC – MARCH 4: Deni Avdija #9 of the Washington Wizards shoots the ball against the LA Clippers on March 4, 2021 at Capital One Arena in Washington, DC. NOTE TO USER: User expressly acknowledges and agrees that, by downloading and or using this Photograph, user is consenting to the terms and conditions of the Getty Images License Agreement. Mandatory Copyright Notice: Copyright 2021 NBAE Ned Dishman/NBAE via Getty Images/AFP (Photo by Ned Dishman / NBAE / Getty Images / Getty Images via AFP)
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- A woman walks in front of several Orthodox churches in the historical center of the town of Pereslavl-Zalessky on March 5, 2021. – Pereslavl-Zalessky is part of the so called Golden Ring of Russia, comprising several cities outside Moscow, which also played a significant role in the formation of the Russian Orthodox Church. The Golden Ring towns feature unique monuments of Russian architecture of the 12th–18th centuries, including kremlins, monasteries, cathedrals, and churches. (Photo by Kirill KUDRYAVTSEV / AFP)
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- US Capitol police officers patrol the US Capitol grounds in Washington, DC , March 5, 2021. – Armed US National Guard troops patrolled the US Capitol on March 4 after officials warned of a new attack plot by extremists, but the feared show of force by those still angry over Donald Trump’s election defeat did not materialize. But security officials also said that the threat is ongoing and could continue through 2022. (Photo by OLIVIER DOULIERY / AFP)
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- Pope Francis addresses clergymen at the Syro-Catholic Cathedral of Our Lady of Salvation (Sayidat al-Najat) in the capital Baghdad at the start of the first ever papal visit to Iraq on March 5, 2021. – In an address to the faithful in Baghdad, Pope Francis expressed his gratitude to his fellow clergy for supporting Iraq’s Christians, whose population has dwindled due to conflict. (Photo by Ahmad AL-RUBAYE / AFP)
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- Senior citizen (L) arrive to receive a Covid-19 coronavirus vaccine at a government hospital in Bangalore on March 5, 2021 as India continues its vaccination programme for people above 45 year-old with co-morbidities and for those above 60 year-old. (Photo by Manjunath Kiran / AFP)
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- Indian Air Force’s Advanced Light Helicopter (ALH) aerobatic team ‘Sarang’ performs during the 70th anniversary celebrations of the Sri Lankan Air Force, in Colombo on March 5, 2021. (Photo by ISHARA S. KODIKARA / AFP)
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- A handout picture released by the Vatican media shows Iraqi President Barham Saleh (L) meeting with Pope Francis at the presidential palace in Baghdad’s Green Zone on March 5, 2021. – Pope Francis landed in war-battered Iraq on the first-ever papal visit, defying security fears and the pandemic to comfort one of the world’s oldest and most persecuted Christian communities. (Photo by – / VATICAN MEDIA
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- The Medway, a trailing suction hopper dredger, operates in the Port of Southampton, on the south coast of England, on March 5, 2021. – Britain’s Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak announced in his annual budget on March 3, 2021, that eight British ports including Southampton, Solent were to be locations for new ‘Freeports’. Goods that arrive into freeports from abroad aren’t subject to the tax charges, called tariffs, that are normally paid to the government. (Photo by ADRIAN DENNIS / AFP)
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- Netherlands’ Sjinkie Knegt (Back) competes in the men’s 500m race during the World Short Track Speed Skating Championships at the Sportboulevard in Dordrecht on March 5, 2021. (Photo by Vincent Jannink / ANP / AFP) /
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- Police officers block a road during clashes with protesters in Dakar on March 05, 2021. – Protests have been ongoing for three days in Senegal after opposition leader Ousmane Sonko was arrested following rape charges. (Photo by JOHN WESSELS / AFP)
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- Protesters throw stones as a police officer walks away from them in Dakar on March 05, 2021. – Protests have been ongoing for three days in Senegal after opposition leader Ousmane Sonko was arrested following rape charges. (Photo by JOHN WESSELS / AFP)
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- A woman gestures from underneath a giant Algerian national flag during an anti-government protest in the capital Algiers on March 5, 2021. – Thousands of people demonstrated in Algiers and other cities across the country, confirming the remobilization of the Hirak protest movement again in the streets since the second anniversary of the uprising on February 22. (Photo by Ryad KRAMDI / AFP)
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- Farm workers work at a strawberry field in Lahore on March 5, 2021. (Photo by Arif ALI / AFP)
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- Algerian security forces stand guard as demonstrators take part in an anti-government protest in the capital Algiers on March 5, 2021. – Thousands of people demonstrated in Algiers and other cities across the country, confirming the remobilization of the Hirak protest movement again in the streets since the second anniversary of the uprising on February 22. (Photo by RYAD KRAMDI / AFP)
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- German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas (L) and Manuela Rossbach, board member of the “Aktion Deutschland hilft” German alliance of relief organisations, hold a poster reading “Be faster than the disaster – save lives with your donation” on March 5, 2021 in Berlin during a news conference on “Anticipatory humanitarian aid as a new challenge – Experiences and findings from 20 years of Disaster Assistance”. (Photo by Tobias Schwarz / AFP)
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- A Provincial Law Enforcement officer counts out 20 small packet of the illegal drug ‘Tik’, also known as methamphetamine, taken from a suspect in Mitchells Plain in Cape Town on March 05, 2021 during a joint operation between SAPS and provincial Law Enforcement officers which are part of the Western Cape government’s Law Enforcement Advancement Plan (LEAP). – In the previous week ten people have been shot, with six killed in Mitchells Plain, in what is widely believed to be gang related violence. (Photo by RODGER BOSCH / AFP)
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- Senior citizens wait to receive a Covid-19 coronavirus vaccine at a government hospital in Bangalore on March 5, 2021 as India continues its vaccination programme for people above 45 year-old with co-morbidities and for those above 60 year-old. (Photo by Manjunath Kiran / AFP)
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