24 hours in pictures, 11 February 2026

Melville, Westdene and surrounding areas protest against the lack of water supply

Melville resident Susan Jobson demonstrates as residents of Melville, Westdene and surrounding areas protest against the lack of water supply in their suburb and many parts of Johannesburg, 11 February 2026, along Main Street in Melville. Jobson has been without water for 16 days. The city is facing an increasingly dire water situation as taps have run dry. Picture: Michel Bega/The Citizen

General views of rehearsals ahead of SONA 2026 on February 11, 2026 in Cape Town, South Africa. President Cyril Ramaphosa will deliver his State of the Nation Address at Cape Town City Hall on February 12th. (Photo by Gallo Images/Ziyaad Douglas)

A resident carries items he salvaged in the city of Toamasina, on the east coast of Madagascar, struck by Tropical Cyclone Gezani on February 11, 2026. (Photo by Tsiky Sikonina / AFP)

A woman poses with the pictures of Iran’s late and current supreme leaders, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini and Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, as she stands before an installation depicting the Iranian flag, during a rally marking the 47th anniversary of the 1979 Islamic revolution, in Tehran on February 11, 2026. The Persian calendar date of Bahman 22 celebrates the anniversary of the resignation of the ousted shah’s last prime minister and the formal assumption of power by revolutionary leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. (Photo by AFP)

DA Johannesburg Mayoral Candidate Helen Zille at a media briefing at Nkululeko House, Johannesburg, 11 February 2026, at a press conference on the rapidly escalating water crisis in Gauteng. Picture: Nigel Sibanda/ The Citizen

Italy’s Andrea Voetter and Marion Oberhofer celebrate winning the gold medal in the luge women’s doubles at Cortina Sliding Centre during the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympic Games in Cortina d’Ampezzo on February 11, 2026. (Photo by Stefano RELLANDINI / AFP)

IPID Director Thuso Keefelakae Testifies At The Madlanga Commission

IPID Director Thuso Keefelakae testifies at Madlanga Commission Of Inquiry at Brigitte Mabandla Judicial College on February 11, 2026 in Pretoria, South Africa. President Cyril Ramaphosa established the commission to investigate and report on the veracity, scope, and extent of the allegations made on 6 July 2025 by KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) Police Commissioner Lieutenant-General Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi that South Africa’s criminal justice system was compromised. (Photo by Gallo Images/Frennie Shivambu)

USA’s Chase Josey competes in the snowboard men’s halfpipe qualification run 1 during the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympic Games at Livigno Snow Park, in Livigno (Valtellina), on February 11, 2026. (Photo by Kirill KUDRYAVTSEV / AFP)

Czech Republic’s Katerina Mrazkova and Daniel Mrazek compete in the figure skating ice dance-free dance final during the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympic Games at Milano Ice Skating Arena in Milan on February 11, 2026. (Photo by WANG Zhao / AFP)

Palestinians walk past goods being sold on the side of the road as people wait in their cars to pass through the Israeli-controlled Qalandiya checkpoint in the occupied West Bank on February 11, 2026. On February 8, Israel’s security cabinet approved a series of measures that would allow Israel to expand its control in areas administered by the Palestinian Authority under the Oslo accords in place since the 1990s. (Photo by JOHN WESSELS / AFP)

South Africa’s Nicole Burger takes part in the skeleton women’s training session at Cortina Sliding Centre during the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympic Games in Cortina d’Ampezzo on February 11, 2026. (Photo by Stefano RELLANDINI / AFP)

South Africa’s Malica Malherbe competes in the freestyle skiing women’s moguls qualification 1 during the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympic Games at Livigno Aerials & Moguls Park, in Livigno (Valtellina), on February 10, 2026. (Photo by Kirill KUDRYAVTSEV / AFP)

Canada’s Devin Wardrope and Canda’s Cole Zajanski compete in the luge men’s doubles run 1 at Cortina Sliding Centre during the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympic Games in Cortina d’Ampezzo on February 11, 2026. (Photo by Tiziana FABI / AFP)

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