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Several dozen demonstrators try to get on the stage where President Cyril Ramaphosa was to make his annual speech on the state of the country, they are intercepted by the security forces present there. Before that, the demonstrators disrupted the ceremony and asked for the resignation of the South African president, as well as the end of power cuts in the country. This comes amid an acute electricity crisis, which has left 60 million South Africans without electricity for hours a day. IMAGES
Several dozen demonstrators try to get on the stage where President Cyril Ramaphosa was to make his annual speech on the state of the country, they are intercepted by the security forces present there. Before that, the demonstrators disrupted the ceremony and asked for the resignation of the South African president, as well as the end of power cuts in the country. This comes amid an acute electricity crisis, which has left 60 million South Africans without electricity for hours a day. IMAGES
The African National Congress (ANC) conference starts in Johannesburg as some 4,500 delegates, from all across of South Africa, gather to chose their next party leader. "Viva ANC", shouts President Cyril Ramaphosa, who hopes to be re-elected as ANC leader a few days after he dodged impeachment in a parliament vote. IMAGES
Pro-Zuma (Jacob Zuma)ANC members sing while arriving at the ANC conference. Outside the premises, expelled African National Congress member Carl Niehaus demonstrates alongside other with signs reading "Ramaphosa must go". IMAGES
The secretary-general of the ANC, Paul Mashatile, tells the press that "should parliament meet tomorrow to deliberate on the report and adopt it, the ANC MPs will vote against it" following discussion about a recently released report which alleges that President Cyril Ramaphosa was involved in a cover-up of a robbery on his farm. SOUNDBITE
Images of the South African parliament as EFF party members interrupt President Cyril Ramaphosa's address to parliament over the alleged unreported theft of a large sum of cash from his farm. Ramaphosa is accused of complicity in buying the silence of burglars who allegedly broke into his Phala Phala cattle and game breeding farm in Bela Bela where they found $4 million in cash hidden in furniture. SOUNDBITE