
24 hours in pictures, 13 July 2026
Through the lens: The Citizen’s Picture Editors select the best news photographs from South Africa and around the world.
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Through the lens: The Citizen’s Picture Editors select the best news photographs from South Africa and around the world.

The highest death toll was recorded in Mpumalanga
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.
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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 […]

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Matt Fitzpatrick says that sports betting is becoming a problem among golf fans and contributing to personal abuse hurled at players.

A dozen US states are taking legal action to halt the largest media consolidation in Hollywood history.
The deal that is honestly not a BEE compliance issue is clearing its final hurdles — and SA’s most on-time airline will soon have new owners.

A photo of the US senator has gone viral after he hadn’t been seen for weeks