Get a taste of what’s on offer when you register with Media Club South Africa, with our weekly photo essay featuring the best photography from the site’s free image library.
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Here are our top 10 photos of the week, and where they can be found in the library.
ABOVE: Boys play with homemade wire toy cars in Freedom Square in the Soweto suburb of Kliptown, in Johannesburg, Gauteng province. The oldest area in the township, Kliptown was the site of the Congress of the People, a 1955 gathering of diverse anti-apartheid movements that together adopted the Freedom Charter. Freedom Square is a new development commemorating the event.
Photo: Chris Kirchhoff
ABOVE: A community anti-abuse and HIV-awareness mural near the Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital in Soweto, Johannesburg, Gauteng province.
Photo: Chris Kirchhoff
ABOVE: Crowds of fans at a match between Bafana Bafana, South Africa’s national football squad, and Equatorial Guinea at Supersport Stadium.
Photo: Chris Kirchhoff
LEFT: An Otter Trail hot air balloon takes tourists to the skies near Hoedspruit in Limpopo province.
Photo: Chris Kirchhoff
ABOVE: Massive cooling towers mark the city skyline of Bloemfontein, Free State province.
Photo: Graeme Williams
LEFT: Quiver trees, which the San Bushmen used to make quivers for their arrows, in the Northern Cape province.
Photo: Graeme Williams
ABOVE: New Mercedes Benz cars await export on the docks of the East London harbour, below the factory, in the Eastern Cape province.
Photo: Rodger Bosch
ABOVE: Indigenous South African rooibos tea is harvested in the fields, then crushed and separated, laid out to dry and packaged at Groenkol Rooibos Farm in the Clanwilliam district of the Western Cape.
Photo: Rodger Bosch
ABOVE: The Cape Town city bowl at night, with Signal Hill to the left, Western Cape province.
Photo: Jeffrey Barbee
ABOVE: The expansion project to rework B-material waste dumps at the massive Sishen open-cast iron-ore mine in the Northern Cape province. Sishen is one of the five largest iron-ore mines in the world and the largest in Africa. The reddish material coating everything is oxidised iron-ore particles, or rust.
Photo: Graeme Williams
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