In spring 2012 I moved to Johannesburg, South Africa to work for the Mail and Guardian. These are some of the pictures I took while on assignments for the paper.
Ntsoele's coffin was flown by helicopter from the capital and a tent was set up for eulogy and prayer.
After the religious service concluded, the miners circled the grave and chanted against the union they held responsible for the death of their friend.
Anice Kruger comforted her daughter, Pippie, who suffered severe burns at a barbecue. She was the first patient in South Africa to receive skin grafts grown in a lab from her own cells.
Old textbooks, literally overflowing from the building, are being burned in the empty field behind a school.
Inmates working in the kitchen stand at the bars to view the performance.
A spectator photographs an electric car as it is repaired. Eleven teams from across the globe gathered to race electric vehicles across South Africa during the Sasol Solar Challenge.
The team pilot iss sealed into the University of KwaZulu-Natal car.
The Team Tokai car, one of two Japanese cars in the race, is surrounded by onlookers during a mandatory pit stop.
Young shepherds posed in traditional knit caps and blankets in the mountains of Lesotho.
Snow gathered in a Hillbrow parking lot. Before winter 2012 snow hadn't collected on the ground in Johannesburg since 1989.
Mauricio, the chief mechanic at Cava Engineering, speaks on the phone to a customer.
This principal of a school in the Limpopo province helps to pay the bills by leasing part of the school grounds to a telecom company. The antenna they erected is visible in the background.
Maria Fidel Regueros, co-owner of the Room Gallery.
Supporters of president Jacob Zuma were bussed in to cheer on the president at a speech to celebrate Nelson Mandela's birthday.
More Zuma supporters stood roadside.
Policemen responsible for security listened to Zuma's speech live on the radio of their van.
As the speech continues protesters and locals stood outside the barbed wire that cordons off the entrance to the venue.
The peaceful but vocal crowd was eventually dispersed by the Nyala vehicle's water canon.