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South African President Cyril Ramaphosa declares a national state of disaster over the devastating floods around the east coast city of Durban. SOUNDBITE
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has declared a state of national disaster in an attempt to tackle the severe electricity crisis that stalling daily life and the economy of the continent’s largest industrial power. IMAGES
EFF political party leader Julius Malema reacts after having been taken out of Parliament during the South African President Cyril Ramaphosa’s keynote address in Parliament. The opposition lawmakers tried to block him from speaking. Walking out en masse, leftist opposition Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF), dressed in their trademark red overalls and worksuits, stormed the stage where Ramaphosa was waiting to deliver the speech. Armed security and police quickly jumped in and forced the MPs off stage. IMAGES
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa visits the township of Clermont, in Durban, after the port city was hit by floods and mudslides stoked by record rains killing nearly 60 people. IMAGES
British national David Good, who has been on holiday in South Africa for a fortnight and hopes to get home before the UK travel ban takes effect, says that Covid-19 is "very serious,". But Good adds: "we're always going to have new variants, so I don't know how we're going to keep locking down every time we find a new variant." South African tour operators are flooded with cancellations after countries follow Britain's decision to ban travel from the region over the discovery of a new coronavirus variant. SOUNDBITE
Johannesburg, Sep 17 (EFE/EPA).- “It was a traumatic, full-on terror kind of experience”. That is how Durban resident Surav Jimmi remembers the wave of violent riots that swept the country in July, leaving 354 people dead. Like many South Africans, Jimmi is now applying for a gun license because he sees no other way to guarantee his personal safety."It was a week full of no sleep, standing off in the community, seeing people getting shot at, us getting shot at, it's a traumatic experience,” the musician and entrepreneur tells Efe from the shooting range in the eastern city of Durban, the worst hit by the violence. (Camera: KIM LUDBROOK).B-ROLL OF PEOPLE TESTING FIREARMS AT "GIRLS ON FIRE" IN JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA.SOUND BITES: A RESIDENT OF DURBAN IN SOUTH AFRICA, SURAV JIMMI; GUN SHOP OWNER, INSTRUCTOR AND FOUNDER OF "GIRLS ON FIRE", LYNETTE OXLEY; MEMBER OF "GIRLS ON FIRE", TSHEPI MMEKWA; PRESIDENT OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN GUN OWNERS ASSOCIATION (SAGA), DAMIAN ENSLIN; AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL'S SOUTH AFRICA DIRECTOR, SHENILLA MOHAMED AND RESEARCHER AT GUN FREE SOUTH AFRICA, CLAIRE TAYLOR (IN ENGLISH).
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