24 hours in pictures, 19 August 2026

(Photo by ANDER GILLENEA / AFP) (From left) Democratic Alliance (DA) Federal Chairperson Solly Msimanga, DA Johannesburg mayoral candidate Helen Zille and DA Federal Leader Geordin Hill-Lewis put up the party’s 2026 local government election slogan posters in Johannesburg, 19 August 2026.(Photo by Marcel Jurian de Jong / ANP / AFP) Suspended Member of Parliament (MP) Fadiel Adams testifies at the Madlanga Commission of Inquiry at Brigette Mabandla Judicial College on August 19, 2026 in Pretoria, South Africa.

Picture: Lerato Thooe/The Citizen Activists in red-stained T-shirts take part in a die-in protest in the Israeli coastal city of Tel Aviv on August 19, 2026, against recent violent attacks by Israeli settlers in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.