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Organised business in Nelson Mandela Bay has called on small enterprises and large industry to become more water resilient as the city faces a water crisis… while the municipality wants to residents to refuse a water refill at restaurants, change their lawnmower setting and take away their children’s water pistols.
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Residential hijackings are on the increase in Johannesburg’s northern suburbs, with the City confirming that 17 properties are under investigation. So just how do you hijack a property? And what can be done once the property has been taken over?
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The early childhood development sector has an important role to play in the delivery of universal access to quality Grade R learning for young children. However, despite recent mass registration drives for centres and a boost in the early childhood development subsidy, resources and funding remain limited.
Top Stories
Spain’s Carlos Alcaraz on Sunday beat Serbian Novak Djokovic 2-6, 6-2, 6-3, 7-5 to win his first Australian Open, increasing his overall Grand Slam tally to seven.
South Africa
KZN Police respond to Hawks Head’s claims of office removal and device seizure
South Africa
FS Transport Department has developed an app to regulate and boost scholar transport safety
South Africa
Majola says this is the third time a death threat has been made to her life.
South Africa
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World
Swiss prosecutors have opened a criminal investigation into the owners of Le Constellation bar in the ski resort of Crans-Montana, where a fire in the early hours of Jan. 1 killed dozens.
World
Israel said on Sunday it was terminating the humanitarian operations of the international charity Doctors Without Borders in Gaza after the organisation failed to provide a list of its Palestinian staff.
World
Crown Princess Mette-Marit of Norway faces backlash over her past friendship with Jeffrey Epstein, revealed in newly unsealed documents, including emails and a four-day stay at his Florida home in 2013.
World
The firm’s move comes amid global scrutiny of the methods used by the US immigration enforcement agency.
Africa
Ifunanya Nwangene, a former contestant in The Voice Nigeria, died after not getting the antivenom she needed.
Africa
The Zulu king was trying to calm anti-migrant feelings but ended up using a highly derogatory phrase.
Africa
The president’s son, notorious for explosive remarks on X, has ambitions to succeed his father.
Africa
Prosecutors say Mamadou Hawa Gassama described Alassane Ouattara as a “tyrant” and “an enemy of Mali”.
Business
Rusty Labuschagne was a millionaire before being wrongfully imprisoned for 10 years in Zimbabwe’s harshest prisons.
Business
Apex Education, a private school offering blended learning, charges R780 per month for school fees.
Business
India’s budget focuses on infrastructure and defence spending and tax breaks for data-centre investments.
Business
Defining the middle class in South Africa is widely debated, but data from various authorities gives us a good idea of how much it takes to be included.
Politics
Malema says people cannot demand services from government if they do not participate in elections
Politics
At 58%, most of the households in the ANC-led Mpofana Local Municipality don’t have access to electricity, and the town is at risk of a “possible grid collapse”.
Politics
On the 18th of March the wards became vacant after the resignation of councilors
Politics
North West Premier Lazarus Mokgosi said there is a political smear campaign against him.
Sport
Michael Carrick says he is delighted for Manchester United striker Benjamin Sesko after he scored a last-minute winner against Fulham in front of the Stretford End.
Sport
Dutch cycling star Mathieu van der Poel sets a new record as he wins an eighth world cyclo-cross title at Hulst in the Netherlands.
Sport
Former Newcastle United winger Allan Saint-Maximin leaves Mexican side Club America by mutual consent after saying his children were the victims of racist abuse.
Sport
Man Utd fan group ‘The 1958’ lead a protest at Old Trafford against the club’s owners Sir Jim Ratcliffe and the Glazer family before the match against Fulham.
Education
Government has ‘learned lesson’ of botched welfare overhauls but MPs say they will not back cost-saving measures
Ministers have “learned the lesson” of botched welfare changes and are on a sustained lobbying blitz of Labour MPs over an overhaul of special educational needs, Labour MPs told the Guardian, as they said they would not back measures aimed at saving money.
The changes will raise the...
Education
Across the country, Americans who love K-pop and K-dramas are flocking to Korean language classes.
Education
Readers respond to a guest essay about the state’s effort to bar “officially disapproved ideas” from its university classrooms.
Education
Labour’s changes to the student loan system have turned frustration into full-blown fury, which its opponents are likely to reap at the ballot box
Student loans: ‘My debt rose £20,000 to £77,000 even though I’m paying’
“It is not right that people who don’t go to university are having to bear all the cost for others to do so,” Rachel Reeves remarked this week, amid the increasingly angry...
Lifestyle
EFF spokesperson Sinawo Thambo has condemned Elon Musk after the latter was named in the bombshell release of the Epstein files.
Lifestyle
DJ Black Coffee has clapped back at claims he financially and physically abused his ex-wife, Enhle Mbali Mlotshwa…
Lifestyle
Siya Kolisi shared a clip of trying Jollof rice for the first time, did his Nigerian-Dutch influencer ‘girlfriend’ cook the traditional meal?
Lifestyle
A former Home Affairs worker has been jailed for five years for multiple counts of insurance fraud, costing hundreds of thousands of rands …
Entertainment
United went straight down the other end and Sesko spun onto Fernandes’ pass before blasting into the top corner.
Entertainment
Through the lens: The Citizen’s Picture Editors select the best news photographs from South Africa and around the world.
Entertainment
Find out what the latest weather forecast from the SA Weather Service means for your region on 2 February 2026.
Entertainment
Chiefs now have seven points from four games in Group D.
Science/Tech
Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania and University of Michigan “have created the world’s smallest fully programmable, autonomous robots,” according to a recent announcement. The announcement calls them “microscopic swimming machines that can independently sense and respond to their surroundings, operate for months and cost just a penny each.” Barely visible to the naked eye, each...
Science/Tech
We are living longer and longer, but many of us are unprepared for the challenges age brings, says the novelist and psychotherapist Frank Tallis
We have never lived so long, so well, nor had more available advice on how to do so: don’t smoke, don’t drink, don’t eat ultraprocessed foods; lift weights, get outside, learn a language. Cosmetics – or surgery – have never been so available,...
Science/Tech
“A box full of viruses and bacteria has completed its return trip to the International Space Station,” reports ScienceAlert, “and the changes these ‘bugs’ experienced in their travels could help us Earthlings tackle drug-resistant infections…”Scientists aboard the space station incubated different combinations of bacteria and phages for 25 days, while the research team led by biochemist Vatsan...
Science/Tech
Yes, it is possible to scale horological heights without breaking the bank. It’s time to seek out the latest bargains.
Motoring
Motoring
Motoring
The Eastern Cape will soon be home to the longest and tallest bridges in South Africa.
Motoring
Many South Africans may use quick fixes to cover up scratches and dents, but that may be a bad idea.
Health
While at the federal agency, he approved the laser device for eye surgery but later warned of its potential to cause harm.
Health
A decades-long study suggested that close relationships with family members during teenage years could lead to a rich network of friendships in adulthood.
Health
How increased responsibilities and a push to be called “physician associates” are raising tensions with doctors.
Health
Spurred by her past struggles with dissociative identity disorder, she has devoted her professional life to studying it.