NUMBERS OF THE WEEK

The number of days set for President Cyril Ramaphosa to appear before the Zondo state capture commission in April. Deputy chief justice Raymond Zondo says Ramaphosa will be testifying in his capacity as the president of South Africa and president of the ANC

The amount paid for the world’s largest painting, created by British artist Sacha Jafri. The painting is a 1 600m2 work of art and took Jafri eight months to complete. The money will be given to Dubai Cares, Unicef, Unesco and the Global Gift Foundation to help vulnerable children in countries such as India and South Africa

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Vice-president Samia Suluhu Hassan became the first woman to be inaugurated as Tanzania’s president — its sixth since independence. Hassan became president after the death of John Magufuli, who denied the presence of Covid-19 in the country until his death

Samia Hassan

Cyril Ramaphosa

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The number of people killed during a mass shooting at a grocery store in Colorado, United States. The motive of the shooting is not yet known. It is the second mass shooting within a week in the US after eight people — six of them Asian American women — were shot and killed at two massage

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Globally one in three people live without access to safe drinking water, according to a UN report. World Water Day, celebrated annually — and this year on 22 March — emphasises the valuable resource it is, and the struggle for access to clean running water and sanitation