While some ANC Youth League comrades drove off to their hotels in luxurious cars, others walked across to their buses in the parking lot
Nosimilo Ndlovu and Vicky Hill report on a UN study on human rights
Whistles, clapping, stamping, the Nasrec Expo Centre vibrates with the sounds of young voices, singing songs vowing to "fight and kill for Zuma".
Millions of young South Africans in disadvantaged areas have to jump in order to acquire the knowledge they need to improve their lives.
"Our school was in a bad condition before, with pipes leaking, toilets dirty and in a poor condition."
A woman sitting on a basket quietly stirs a pan of spinach on a paraffin stove. Children run around noisily between plastic bags, suitcases, blankets and mattresses.
Nosimilo Ndlovu and Warren Foster report on what South Africans can expect at the first-ever Sexpo to be held in the country.
Primrose, a middle-class suburb in the east of Johannesburg, was one of the areas hardest hit by the xenophobic attacks that began three weeks ago. The neighbourhood’s Primula Street — usually quiet and calm — was packed with thousands of refugees seeking shelter from the violence. Some of them slept on the streets.
In a practice that recalls the humiliating "tests" used by apartheid officials to classify coloureds as white or black, reports came in that South African mobs were using similar techniques to identify foreigners. A language test is first, where one is asked to label certain body parts in isiZulu. Certain words in the Zulu language are no longer used on a daily basis.
It is lunchtime and two police officers from the Alexandra station have arrived to collect 50 loaves of bread and four enormous plastic tubs filled with fresh stew for the refugees who have sought sanctuary at the police station from the violence.The officers pack the lunch into the back of a police van and drive off.