South Africa United Apostolic Church fertility caves
Maria Nzuza of the United Apostolic Church cleanses herself of evil spirits as she emmerse herself in the freezing water of a waterfall at the divine Fertility Caves deep in the Maloti Mountains near Clarens, South Africa, 16 December 2011. The ritual is also to connect with their ancestors and form part of a belief that sees them retain their traditional pre-Christian belief system of ancestor worship in parallel with their Christianity. At the Fertility caves the followers 'pray' to both the ancestors and Christian God. Living in the cave are various Sangoma's, or 'Witch doctors' who have been living in the caves for years and who appeal to the spirit world alongside the Christian beliefs of the United Apostolic Church followers.
Mandela launches the second of the 46664 music concerts
Former South African President and Nobel Peace Prize winner Nelson Mandela launches the second of the 46664 music concerts that will highlight the plight of AIDS sufferers and the effect of HIV aids in the world, Johannesburg Thursday, 17 February 2005. The concert to be held in George on March 19 will included Annie Lenox, Queen and United States actor and rapper, Will Smith.
South Africa heritage day
Women in traditional Zulu dress stand in the morning light as they wait to dance at the Sandton Convention Centre during the first day of the COP17 Cites Conference, Johannesburg, South Africa, 24 September 2016. South Africa celebrates HeritAge Day annual as a public holiday and encourages the countries many different tribes, languages and races to celebrate their heritage. South Africa has 11 official languages.
Township Yogi
Township Yogi teacher, Kenneth Qamata sits and in prayer in his house as a photograph of Nelson Mandela is seen above his chair in Inanda Township, Durban, South Africa, 25 January 2014. Kenneth is an ANC supporter and was brought up Christian however has found his spiritual path is now yoga. Kenneth is one of the first four township residents to qualify as a yoga teacher and he teachers outside his house to children in the area as well as in various halls in the area.
Hundreds of villagers carry the embalmed bones of a family member to it's tomb
epa01075664 Hundreds of villagers carry the embalmed bones of a family member to it's tomb during the exhuming of the dead or Famadihana ceremony by the Merina tribe in the village of Mananpona, Madagascar 24 July 2007. The exhuming ceremony occurs every five years within each family and on this occasion included the remains of one man who died fighting the French colonials and one person who died in 1985.
Love For Soccer in Alexandra Shanty Town
A young school boy heads his old soccer ball as he enjoys his practice session with his friends (unseen) after school on a huge open expanse of dirt used by hundreds of soccer players young and old alike in the center of one of South Africa's biggest and poorest townships, Alexandra Township, Johannesburg, South Africa, 25 January 2012. Whilst Africa's biggest soccer stars are playing for their countries in the 2012 African Cup of Nations that started 21 January, young soccer enthusiasts are pursuing their sport with extra zeal. The final will be played in Gabon 12 February.
MALNOURISHED CHILD
Five-year-old Sensee Manubah, shows clear signs of malnourishment at the Medecins Sans Frontieres clinic at Mamba Point in Monrovia Monday 25th August 2003.
Although the fighting between government soldiers and LURD rebels has stopped in the capital the humaniterian situation still remains very grave. Thousands of poeple are still living off the hand-outs from aid agencies in the capital.
Xhosa familly features
Nosizile Goloza (L) talks with her friend Nowandie King (C) and granddaughter (R) in their mud hut in Coffee Bay, South Africa, 06 November 2014. Nosizile is wearing traditional Xhosa clothing hand made with beads and is also wearing face paint. The area is known as the Wildcoast and is still very rural with most villages being subsistence farmers.
Cape Minstrels
Singers in the Good Hope Entertainers troupe take a break during the minstrels parade on New Year's day in Bo-Kaap, Cape Town, South Africa, 01 January 2015. The group has a new costume every year and all the costumes for the 40,000 minstrels are made in one central factory.
Township trampoline club
A girl jumps on one of the trampolines at the Alexandra Trampoline Club in Johannesburg, South Africa, 01 December 2016. The children jump after school each day as one of the rare extra activities in one of Johannesburg oldest and most impoverished townships.
South Africa township fire
A man tries to put out the flames in what remains of his shack with a small bucket of water as a fire rages through an informal settlement in Kaya Sands, Johannesburg, 11 November 2015. The flames fueled by high winds and a heat waves swept through the shacks of the settlement. At least 250 shacks were destroyed.
South Africa AfrikaBurn festival Burning Man arts rave hippie Pagan trance
Participants in the AfrikaBurn festival in the the Karoo desert, Tweefontein, South Africa, 04 May 2013. The festival is based on Burning Man in the United States and see thousands of people gathering in the desert to construct a temporary community. The event is part rave, part trance party, part Pagan gathering, part arts festival as thousands of participants erect art pieces, share ideas, share goods and gifts burn the effigies on the final night. There must be no trace of humans after the event is finished and a sharing community is formed as there is no money allowed as participants have to bring their own food, water and tents.