24 hours in pictures, 30 July 2026

(Photo by JAVIER SORIANO / AFP) Mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis announces the highest ever capital expenditure outcome for the City of Cape Town for the 2025/26 financial year at the Cape Town Civic Centre on July 30, 2026 in Cape Town, South Africa.(Photo by Pierre Crom/Getty Images) Johannesburg mayoral candidate Helen Zille and Ward 106 councillor Chris Santana brief the media about the Democratic Alliance’s challenge to President Cyril Ramaphosa’s National Water Crisis Plan, which the party says contains nothing new, 30 July 2026 in Johannesburg, South Africa.(Photo by Thomas Lohnes/Getty Images) Protesters react as South African Police Service (SAPS) officers threaten to disperse them with rubber bullets during a demonstration calling for the removal of undocumented immigrants in Alexandra township on July 30, 2026.