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LOYAL: Winnie Madikizela-Mandela at the Medi-Clinic Heart Hospital, where former president Nelson Mandela is being treated in Pretoria. (Themba Hadebe, AP)
THOROUGH: A crime scene investigator searches the area near Hammanskraal where the body of Major General Tirhani Simon Maswanganyi was found, with his hands and feet tied. (Brendan Croft, Beeld)
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AGONY AND ECSTASY: Welsh players celebrate their last-gasp win over the Baby Boks in the Junior World Championship semi-final in Vannes, France. (Damien Meyer, AFP)
UNITED: Tourism workers and activists in Luxor, Eqypt, protest a newly appointed Islamist governor and block his office. (Ibrahim Zayed, AP)
CONCENTRATE: Japanese Buddhist monk and anti-nuclear campaigner Toyoshige Sekiguchi prays at the outer security gate leading to the G8 summit in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland. (Peter Muhly, AFP)

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