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Company attend the revealing of what’s believed to be the world’s largest handmade scarf chandelier at Hyde Park Nook in Johannesburg, 15 July 2026, because the purchasing centre launched the Yarn by Design Expo in celebration of the tenth anniversary of the Secret Scarves Shh… marketing campaign by 67 Blankets for Nelson Mandela Day. The set up, created by the Gauteng KnitWits, highlights the nationwide initiative encouraging individuals to knit, crochet and donate handmade scarves and blankets to these in want forward of Nelson Mandela Day on July 18. Image: Michel Bega/The CitizenVusi Moyo of South Africa in the course of the South African nationwide males’s rugby workforce coaching session at Hollywoodbets Kings Park on July 15, 2026 in Durban, South Africa. (Picture by Steve Haag Sports activities/Gallo Photographs)March and March Motion chief Jacinta Ngobese-Zuma addresses lots of of supporters throughout a protest demonstration in Pinetown, south of Durban on July 16, 2026. The group is asking for harder motion in opposition to unlawful immigration and the deportation of undocumented overseas nationals. Organisers additionally urged the federal government and officers from the Division of Residence Affairs to expedite the processing of identification paperwork for an estimated 4 million South Africans who they are saying stay with out official Id Paperwork. The protest comes amid broader nationwide debates over border safety, regulation enforcement and South Africa’s immigration insurance policies. (Picture by RAJESH JANTILAL / AFP)Commuters strolling with a scooter wade by means of a flooded highway following heavy rain in Kathmandu on July 16, 2026. (Picture by Prakash MATHEMA / AFP)Normal views in the course of the demolition of unlawful constructions at Marble towers on July 15, 2026 in Johannesburg, South Africa. The Metropolis of Johannesburg is demolishing unlawful constructions at Marble Towers in step with a Johannesburg Excessive Court docket order. This operation types a part of the Metropolis’s ongoing efforts to implement by-laws, restore compliance, enhance public security, and reclaim public areas within the internal metropolis. (Picture by Gallo Photographs/Sharon Seretlo)Kosovar artist Alkent Pozhegu places the end touches to a mosaic on the bottom, made with grain and seeds, and depicting Argentina’s ahead #10 Lionel Messi (R) and Spain’s ahead #19 Lamine Yamal, within the city of Gjakova on July 16, 2026. 1000’s of kilometres away from New York, the place the Argentina and Spain soccer groups will compete for the World Cup title, within the western metropolis of Gjakova, Alkent Pozhegu has made a mosaic depicting the 2 ahead stars Lionel Messi and Lamine Yamal. (Picture by Armend NIMANI / AFP)Individuals collect in entrance of 1000’s of lanterns on show in the course of the Mitama Matsuri, one of many capital’s largest summer time “obon” festivals, at Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo on July 15, 2026. (Picture by Philip FONG / AFP)Demonstrators, together with members of Operation Dudula and different civil society teams, march by means of Hillbrow on July 16, 2026 in Johannesburg, South Africa. The group demanded the removing of undocumented overseas nationals and stricter enforcement of native employment legal guidelines. (Picture by Gallo Photographs/Alet Pretorius)This aerial {photograph} reveals individuals strolling by means of a maze in a cornfield on July 16, 2026 in Soultz, japanese France. (Picture by SEBASTIEN BOZON / AFP)Spectators sit in a makeshift pool of water because the pack of riders (peloton) cycles previous in the course of the eleventh stage of the 113th version of the Tour de France biking race, 161,3 km between Vichy and Nevers in central France, on July 15, 2026. (Picture by Jeff PACHOUD / AFP)Attendees wave traditionnal Bayonne pageant crimson scarfs as they collect earlier than the City Corridor in the course of the opening ceremony of the “Fetes de Bayonne” (Bayonne Pageant) in Bayonne, south-western France on July 15, 2026. The Bayonne Pageant runs from July 15 to July 19, 2026. (Picture by Gaizka IROZ / AFP)Individuals look out from the CN Tower as smoke from wildfires in northern Ontario blankets town, inflicting poor air high quality, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, on July 15, 2026. Toronto had the worst air high quality of any main metropolis on the planet on Wednesday, the Swiss agency IQAir mentioned, as Canadian authorities urged individuals to remain indoors. Toronto edged out New Delhi and the Democratic Republic of Congo’s capital Kinshasa as wildfire smoke turned the skies a hazy yellowish-grey in Canada’s largest metropolis. (Picture by Cole BURSTON / AFP)An Argentina supporter with blue-and-white face paint gestures as followers have a good time Argentina’s victory over England following the 2026 FIFA World Cup semi-final soccer match close to the Obelisk in Buenos Aires on July 15, 2026. (Picture by Luis ROBAYO / AFP)
