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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
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
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
Tropical cyclone Eloise has resulted in heavy rains and flooding in parts of South Africa's Greater Kruger National Park. The cyclone is passing over South Africa after it hit central Mozambique last week, where it caused severe flooding in port city of Beira and displaced thousands of people. IMAGES
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