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Every day life in Joburg

The city's health department provides free blood tests at the Carlton Centre

• Spectators watch a street parade down Oxford Road in Rosebank
• The city's health department provides free blood tests at the Carlton Centre
• School children playing the traditional African board game, Morabaraba, now increasingly popular
• One of the city's elegant new buses offloads passengers in Gandhi Square, centre of the CBD
• They're everywhere ... cellphones don't discriminate against colour, age, gender, or even income
• City officials inspect the property of a "slum landlord" in the inner city
• School children fling bacteria-loaded clay balls into Zoo Lake as part of a clean-up campaign. The bacteria helps "eat" pollution in the water
• City health officials hold an open-air clinic in an informal settlement
• Great clothing bargains at an inner city market
• A clown rides a fire truck as part of a fire awareness programme aimed at school children
• South Africa's last coppersmith, Larry De Klerk, operates from an historic house in Doornfontein
• Ever so serious, pre-teen majorettes march through the streets of their Johannesburg west community
• Fruit seller with his wares on a street in Yeoville
• Fruit on sale on a pavement in the inner city
• The annual Gay Pride parade, which began in the eighties as a protest against repression, has become more like a local Mardi Gras
• A traffic incident on a Hillbrow street brings curious neighbours flocking to windows
• Shoppers stroll through a new open air market constructed in Hillbrow
• Policemen on horseback patrol outside the Wanderers stadium
• Children play in a park that was once reserved for whites only
• Lunch-time stew for sale at Maria's street restaurant
• Men join a march through Alexandra against violence towards women and children
• Crowds in Newtown, once a run-down area, now being redeveloped as a cultural centre
• Numbers board game keeps township children entertained while they learn
• Independent African churches hold services in open spaces alongside streams each Sunday
• Healing ceremony at an open air service by an African church
• Hidden behind the greenery, the Gay Pride parade snakes down Jan Smuts Avenue
• Party time in a city park after an open-air kwaito concert
• It's party time in Soweto
• Protesters march, chant and dance along a city street ... political protest is legal, as long as arrangements are made with traffic police
• Crowds at the Rand Show, the country's most popular fair, held annually over the Easter holidays
• Roadside stall beckons customers on a highway outside Soweto
• Post-apartheid education ... black and white children in a school library
• Homeless street children get subsidised education at the New Nation school
• Watched by their parents, youngsters play soccer on a stretch of veld in an informal
• Street barbers offer the quickest and cheapest haircuts in town
• A clown entertains children on a city street
• Grilled "wors" or sausages, a staple form of street food
• After-hours pavement gossip in the inner city
• A carnival street parade through a township in western Johannesburg
• Customers sit on plastic chairs under a makeshift roof in an informal "street restaurant"
• A Rasta holds forth about Jah to a captive audience on board a Soweto train, where platform preachers are a common sight
• Soweto commuters wait for the train to take them into Park Station in the city centre
• The city's health department provides free blood tests at the Carlton Centre
• Young performers from a circus school offer free entertainment in an open-air arcade