An employee sells fish so fresh it’s still looking at you at Food Lover’s Market in Sunningdale, Cape Town.
The light catches a woman’s head scarf as she appears to spin a large bunch of flowers into an arrangement at the Adderley Street Flower Market in Cape Town.
Workers at a Sasol petrochemical plant in South Africa. Sasol is an energy and chemical company in Johannesburg
Dance Umbrella is a festival with a 27-year history presenting new contemporary choreography and dance in Johannesburg. It showcases choreographers and companies from all over South Africa including community-based youth groups, young up-and-coming choreographers, and new commissioned work.
Source: DanceForum
Construction has begun on a Chinese-financed 84-billion rand city in Modderfontein, Eastern Johannesburg. Chinese firm Shanghai Zendai plans to develop the 1,600 hectares of land into the “New York of Africa.”
Source: AllAfrica
South African government officials work and representatives from World Wildlife Fund South Africa and BirdLife South Africa work with landowners to assess the biodiversity value on their property as part of a biodiversity stewardship program.
Source: WWFSA
Zimbabwean nationals line up outside the Home Affairs office in Johannesburg to renew their special work permits.
Source: TimesLive
Alpha and Arrow go after a pretend poacher during take-down training at the Battle Creek K9 Breeding and Training Center in South Africa. There are an estimated 100 dogs doing anti-poaching work in South Africa.
Source: Toronto Star
Informal hairdressers weave braids into the hair of clients who, minutes before, were passers-by on a street in central Johannesburg.
Source: DailyMaverick
This wall mural at the corner of Fox and Rissik streets in Johannesburg is the work of an artist known as Faith47. The title of the work comes from Virgil’s Latin poem “Aeneid.”
“Una salus victis nullam sperare salutem” translates to “The one safety for the vanquished is to abandon hope of safety. Surrendering to the knowledge that there is no hope can bring deep courage.”
Sources: StreetArtNews, B-Street.com.
Riders appear tiny as ants along the route during stage 3 of the 2015 Absa Cape Epic Mountain Bike stage race. The route included an area from Oak Valley Wine Estate in Elgin to HTS Drostdy in Worcester.
Source: Bicycling.co.za
Childrens’ Librarian Roni Snitcher conducts a weekly award-winning children’s program, “Pram Jam,” at the Sea Point Library in Cape Town. Toddlers learn to love reading through songs and interactive games. About 50 to 120 moms and nannies show up each week with their children for Pram Jam.
