Denver train crash

Police at a train crash at Denver station in Johannesburg. The crash resulted in one death and over 250 injuries. The collision apparently occurred when the driver of the Business Express (The white train) failed to stop at a red light and collided with the stationary yellow Metro Plus train in Denver station.

Truck accident

Paramedics stabilize a patient trapped in a vehicle at the traffic circle leading from the N3S to Modderfontein road in Edenvale near Johannesburg . The truck that was also involved in the crash hangs above them. According to witnesses the vehicle swerved in front of the truck from the inside lane of the traffic circle and collided with the truck which drove over the vehicle. The driver was ejected and the passenger trapped inside the vehicle. The driver was taken to hospital in a serious condition whilst paramedics worked in the rain to release the trapped passenger.

Stuck truck

A truck stuck under a clearly marked bridge on Elgin Road in Kempton Park near Johannesburg, 9 January 2015. A local said that it happens all the time on this bridge with this being the fourth one in a matter of weeks.

Miss SA wins Miss World

Miss World Rolene Strauss speaks during a reception event at OR Tambo International airport, 20 December 2014. The event was held for her as she arrived back in South Africa after winning the Miss World pageant in London recently.Newly crowned Miss World Rolene Strauss and South African Miss World 1958, Penny Coelen Rey during a reception event at OR Tambo International airport.

Shack fire, Denver

A fire rages through an informal settlement in Denver, Johannesburg, South Africa, 6 November 2014. The fire destroyed a large part of the settlement, but had the wind not been blowing in the direction it was, the damage would have been dramatically worse.

I seen smoke on the horizon and rode my motorcycle towards it. It's not the first (nor the last) time that I've done that. More often than not it's garbage or some random stuff on fire.

This time I came up to this shack fire just starting off. People were rushing to move their belongings from their corrugated-iron and wood shacks. Some seemed to have given up and just sat there watching the fire consume their homes. As always, I moved around trying to get some pictures of the destruction.

With your eye on the camera, you are separated from the reality of what's going on, you are simply trying to get a decent frame. The pictures can't show the heat, but I could feel my face burning and embers flew all over me as the wind picked up.

At one point, a man accosted me for being there taking photos. He stopped dismantling his shack and came running towards me with his hammer screaming that I must leave. I walked away.

I can understand his feeling of anger. I definitely stick out at these scenes, for many more reasons than the fact I'm holding a camera. He must be frustrated and angered by knowing that he is about to lose everything of the very little he has and I am an easy target for his anger.

So very unlike me, I moved away. I already had my pictures.