Picture the Day

A flower and new shoots of grass emerge amongst the remains of burned indigeneous Fynbos vegetation in the Silvermine part of the World Heritage site Table Mountain National Park, Cape Town. This photo was taken on Monday. Picture: EPA

Democratic Alliance leader, Helen Zille, announced on Sunday that she would not stand for re-election in the party's upcoming congress in May this year. Picture: AP

(in the pic - President Zuma on the dance floor). President Jacob Zuma celebrates his 73rd Birthday with friends and family at a function held at Dube House in Durban. 12/04/2015, Elmond Jiyane, GCIS

Members of Sudanese opposition parties take part in a sit-in at the headquarters of Umma, one of Sudan's biggest opposition parties, calling for a boycot of the elections on Sunday. Picture: AP

The Queen Mary II arrived in Durban at dawn on Monday from Mauritius. The luxury passenger ship is on a 113-day round-the-world cruise. Picture: Fathima Kadwa

DURBAN: 120415 Situation is tense in KwaMaphumulo following death of three people that were shot and killed last week. Last night three houses were burned. PICTURE: GCINA NDWALANE

Dutch Princess Viktoria de Bourbon de Parma smiles after collecting coins from the Wensbron (the wishing well) in an amusement park in Kaatsheuvel, The Netherlands, on Monday. Picture: EPA

President Omar al-Bashir prepares to cast his ballot on the first day of presidential and legislative elections, in Khartoum, Sudan on Monday. Picture: AP

DURBAN: 090415 Bianca Johnson and her 10 month old son Kyle. PICTURE: GCINA NDWALANE

Victims of burglaries in the Pietermaritzburg area sift through jewellery recovered by the Mountain Rise police and a security company. Picture: Shan Pillay

Little girls perform during the opening ceremony of the Yangon Mayor water festival in Yangon, Myanmar on Monday. The annual water festival is celebrated with people splashing water and throwing powder at each other as a symbolic sign of cleansing and washing away sins from the old year to mark the traditional New Year. Picture: EPA

Revellers enjoy the Jamaica Carnival Road march in Kingston on Sunday. Picture: Reuters

A family members walk past the debris of destroyed buildings in the settlement of Shyra which was damaged by recent wildfires, in Khakassia region, on Monday. Picture: Reuters

Protesters stage a sit-in protest at Faslane Naval Base in Helensburgh, Scotland, on Monday. The protests organised by anti-nuclear weapons organisation Scrap Trident Coaliton called for an end of storing Trident nuclear weapons at the base. Picture; EPA

An Indian scavenger offers food to Indian Home Minister Rajnath Singh during the inauguration of the 'Untouchability No More' campaign in New Delhi, India, on Monday. The campaign was launched to create the awareness against the practice of 'untouchability' in India. Picture: EPA

Former World Pole Sport and Fitness Champion Bendy Kate of the United Kingdom performs during the finals of the World Pole Dance Championship in Beijing, China, on Sunday. Picture: EPA

Chile's Felipe Mendoza Perez performing during the finals of the World Pole Dance Championship in Beijing, China, on Sunday. Picture: EPA

A Nepalese farmer carries his produce as he crosses the Trishul river on a suspension bridge in the Dhading District on Monday. Picture: EPA

Kanye West performs an impromptu gig near Swan Lake in Yerevan, Armenia, on Sunday. The Kardashian sisters, along with Kim's husband Kanye West and their daughter North are on a visit to their ancestral home. Picture: AP

An Afghan Kuchi, nomad, girl carries a lamb on the outskirts of Kabul, Afghanistan, on Monday. Picture: AP

Young men in Ukrainian traditional clothes pour water on the girls in Mamaeva Sloboda in Kiev, Ukraine, on Monday. The tradition of pouring water was an ancient Spring ritual of cleansing on first Monday after Orthodox Easter. Picture: EPA

A woman takes part in a water fight as local residents and tourists spray water on each other to celebrate Songkran water festival, Thai traditional New Year, on the Silon strip road in Bangkok on Monday. Pcture: EPA

Devotees roll on thorny bushes laid on the ground to reach a temple as they perform a ritual during the "Danda" festival in Khurda district in the eastern Indian state of Odisha on Monday. Picture: Reuters