News Essays – Snapped https://www.snapped.co.za Just another WordPress site Fri, 10 Jul 2015 10:43:28 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.5.5 Polokwane https://www.snapped.co.za/2015/07/10/polokwane/ https://www.snapped.co.za/2015/07/10/polokwane/#respond Fri, 10 Jul 2015 10:43:28 +0000 http://www.snapped.co.za/?p=168

Polokwane

Greg Marinovich’s photographs of the 5 day ANC conference that changed South African politics.

After months of bitter rivalry for the leadership of the African National Congress (ANC), a climax was finally reached this past December as delegates to the ANC conference in Polokwane voted Jacob Zuma president of the ANC. News sources reported that delegates danced on their tables, screamed with joy and hugged each other deliriously as Jacob Zuma swept to victory by almost 2,000 votes. After the result was announced, Zuma and Mbeki walked onto the stage together, with Mbeki smiling and Zuma looking slightly shocked and humbled, while fireworks went off outside. As they approached the front of the stage, Mbeki turned to Zuma and hugged him and clasped his hand, then was led off stage.

Johannesburg-based Greg Marinovich was there, and compiled this photo essay.

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  • 01. Jimia Ibrahim

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    13-year-old Jimia Ibrahim treated at Coptic Hospital. She was shot in the thigh during clashes between police and opposition supporters in the Kibera slums in Nairobi, 19 January 2008.

  • 02. Three days after Kenyans went to the polls to elect a new president,

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    Three days after Kenyans went to the polls to elect a new president, a Kenyan policeman flees from power cables that could fall near burning houses that opposition supporters set on fire at the Mathare slum in Nairobi, 30 December 2007.

  • 03. Residents show the severed arm of a man

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    Residents show the severed arm of a man which was cut-off during interethnic clashes between supporters of President Kibaki and the opposition leader Raila Odinga, 18 January 2008 in Mathare Slums, Nairobi.

  • 04. Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki

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    Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki (L) and opposition leader Raila Odinga (R) with former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan (2nd L), following mediation efforts that called for an end to violence.

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Kenya

Boniface Mwangi and the Kenyan Conflict.

Rowdy young men who extorted payment from motorists. 24 year-old Kenyan, Boniface Mwangi, was one of the photographers to record these events.

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