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24 hours in pictures, 13 July 2026

Monday at 21:27 PM, via The Citizen

Through the lens: The Citizen’s Picture Editors select the best news photographs from South Africa and around the world.

CoGTA Minister raises alarm over 35 initiate deaths

Monday at 21:24 PM, via SABC News

The highest death toll was recorded in Mpumalanga

Ukraine to produce French missiles, orders war planes, Macron says

Monday at 21:23 PM, via Daily Maverick

PARIS, July 13 (Reuters) – President Emmanuel Macron said on Monday that France would allow Ukraine to produce French-made cruise missiles, precision guided bombs and air defence interceptor missiles after Kyiv ordered next generation Franco-Italian air defence systems and Rafale fighter jets.

POLITICAL COMEBACK: Corruption suspect and former mayor Zandile Gumede returns to politics as MK deputy convener

Monday at 21:15 PM, via Daily Maverick

Still facing corruption charges, the former eThekwini mayor has been elevated to MK’s provincial leadership as the party doubles down on its campaign to take control of South Africa’s most contested political province.

Sublime second half against England sees Junior Boks into U-20 world champs final

Monday at 21:05 PM, via SowetanLIVE

The South Africans, who will meet France in the final, were 20-12 down at half time

Apple Reportedly Agreed to Intel Chips To Avoid White House Tariffs

Monday at 21:00 PM, via Slashdot

According to the Wall Street Journal (paywalled), Apple agreed to use Intel’s U.S. chipmaking plants after White House officials pressured Tim Cook during tariff-relief talks last summer. MacRumors reports: In August 2025, Apple CEO Tim Cook was in Washington to lobby the Trump administration to drop its proposed 100 percent tariff on semiconductor imports — a levy that would have raised costs...

Timing took me to Chelsea rather than Liverpool – Alonso

Monday at 21:00 PM, via BBC News

Chelsea manager Xabi Alonso says his arrival at Stamford Bridge instead of Liverpool was “about timings”.

Creecy’s proposal of vehicle-linked fee to fund RAF slammed by PSA

Monday at 21:00 PM, via SABC News

RAF is cashing in more than R48 billion from the fuel levy annually.

Junior Springboks down 14-man England U20 to set up France final

Monday at 20:58 PM, via The Citizen

The Junior Springboks will defend their U20 Junior World Championship title against France U20s in the final in Georgia on Saturday.

SIU gets greenlight to probe Free State Education school projects

Monday at 20:58 PM, via SABC News

The investigation will cover the period from March 1 2014, until the date of the proclamation

Jayden Adams loved one reveals final hours [video]

Monday at 20:52 PM, via The South African

Jayden Adams’s loved one shared their last encounter with the late Bafana Bafana player, just hours before his death…

US judge voids Donald Trump’s $1.8bn settlement with IRS that gave him immunity from tax audits

Monday at 20:52 PM, via BBC News

The judge said the suit was brought for ‘improper purposes’ and referred a Trump attorney for possible disciplinary action.

US to begin enforcing maritime blockade on Iran on Tuesday

Monday at 20:52 PM, via Daily Maverick

LONDON, July 13 (Reuters) – The U.S. military will begin enforcing a maritime blockade on Iran on Tuesday, the U.S. Navy-led Joint Maritime Information Center (JMIC) said on Monday.

BROKEN CITY: Powerless in Joburg: how blackout desperation fuels a cash-for-cables extortion racket

Monday at 20:48 PM, via Daily Maverick

Crumbling infrastructure, systemic operational paralysis, and brazen extortion schemes have pushed Johannesburg’s electricity network to its breaking point, leaving the utility increasingly unable to cope with a localised crisis that councillors warn is sliding out of control.

#GuptaLeaks: The R331m Dubai Mansion

Monday at 20:44 PM, via SA People

If the Guptas were looking for anonymity, Dubai wasn’t far enough. In April 2016, reporter Susan Comrie, now with amaBhungane, flew to Dubai on an assignment to find the mansion the Guptas were alleged to have bought, somewhere in the millionaires’ suburb of Emirates Hills. It didn’t take long to get the address – when […]