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‘Joyless and toxic’ – will Spurs put Frank out of his misery?
Tottenham manager Thomas Frank remains in deep trouble despite his side rescuing a late draw at Burnley, writes Phil McNulty.
SATURDAY, 24 JANUARY 2026, 23:22

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Tottenham manager Thomas Frank remains in deep trouble despite his side rescuing a late draw at Burnley, writes Phil McNulty.

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The US president’s praise follows his claim that allied forces avoided the front lines during the Afghanistan conflict.

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Back-to-back Premier League wins have taken West Ham United to within two points of 17th.
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Here are the Lotto and Lotto Plus results.

South Africa
Thembelani Mkhize, 32, is using AI-generated comics to highlight community issues and help residents better understand what is happening around them. Mkhize, who is from Mpophomeni, has gained attention for creating visual stories that reflect challenges facing society, including local service delivery concerns. He said his passion for storytelling was influenced by his father, who […]

South Africa
Top technology executives at the World Economic Forum in Davos are warning that artificial intelligence is rapidly becoming a geopolitical force, shaping global power competition and raising new national security concerns. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei compared advanced AI chips to nuclear weapons, arguing the United States risks losing its advantage over China by selling high-end […]

South Africa
Big Tech companies and startups are increasingly building generative AI tools for children, but many products rely heavily on text or voice, which may not keep kids engaged. Three former Google employees are aiming to address that gap with Sparkli, a generative AI-powered interactive learning app. Sparkli was founded last year by Lax Poojary, Lucie […]

South Africa
The AI disruptions of the past few years have only been the prologue to what’s coming in 2026: AI’s full integration into data centre processes and builds. It’s a moment we’ve been building up to ever since OpenAI’s ChatGPT brought Artificial Intelligence into the mainstream in late 2022, sending shockwaves through everything from academia and […]

World
The Lebanese man helped helped plan attacks on Jewish and Israeli institutions in Europe, prosecutors say.

World
A sever winter storm that could affect more than 200 million Americans has brought heavy snow, and freezing temperatures.

World
The announcement is a reversal for Trump, who initially initially praised the agreement with China as something Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney “should be doing.”

World
Alex Honnold is attempting to scale one of the world’s tallest buildings, Taipei 101 in Taiwan.

Africa
Reinforcements are sent to the town of Bor, a strategic staging post on the way to the capital, Juba.

Africa
The authorities tried to stop their export arguing they were part of the country’s heritage.

Africa
Orlando Magic’s Desmond Bane says he would be keen on representing Nigeria ahead of the 2028 Olympics and suggests other NBA players could do the same.

Africa
The announcement that the Africa Cup of Nations will be hosted every four years from 2028 sparked division, but what will it mean for the game on the continent?

Business
East London is seeing an influx of South African semigrants due to its attractive lifestyle and cheaper prices.

Business
A secondary School in Limpopo province recorded a dismal 0% pass rate in the 2025 National Senior Certificate (NSC) examinations.

Business
Charity the Message Trust said the shop was formed in response to “desperate need”.

Business
Capitec’s former CEO Gerrie Fourie is the highest-paid banking CEO in South Africa, followed by the CEO of Standard Bank, and then Investec.

Politics
Malema has vowed to challenge both the conviction and any sentence imposed on him.

Politics
With only two seats in the 70 seats at the council, Motsoeneng vows to increase this number.

Politics
ANC First Deputy Secretary-General Nomvula Mokonyane says the global left needs to come together.

Politics
Members of the party gathered with the intention to put together an action plan for the party.

Sport
Livingston will contact the Scottish FA to report Aberdeen over an alleged racial comment made to striker Jeremy Bokila.

Sport
Final Score EFL pundit Sam Parkin reflects on the highs and lows after Saturday’s action.

Sport
Liverpool manager Arne Slot believes his players were incredibly tired in their defeat against Bournemouth, to the extent Jeremy Frimpong was “falling over his own feet” after coming off.

Sport
Amine Adli scores a stoppage-time winner as Bournemouth end Liverpool’s 13-game unbeaten run in a thrilling match at Vitality Stadium.
Education
The number of applicants has risen more than 40 percent over the last two years, despite new limits on student loans and uncertainty over how artificial intelligence will affect legal work.
Education
[Namibian] The Walvis Bay Primary School has defended its claim that 64% of its workforce are persons with disabilities.
Education
[Namibian] The children are back at school, and between stationery shopping and replacing school shoes they somehow outgrew over the holidays, most of us are checking our bank balances with one eye closed, fully aware that payday is still a long way off.
Education
[The Point] Le Jumbo, a mentorship programme designed to arm youth with the requisite skills and knowledge before they start seeking for formal jobs at institutions, recently graduated over 175 mentees from its mentorship program cohort 0.4.

Lifestyle
US actor Jerry O’Connell has been spotted soaking up the sun in Durban. Take a look at what the screen star has been getting up to…

Lifestyle
Truth or lie? Afrikaner activist Ernst Roets claims this popular Kwaito track should be classified as ‘boeremusiek’.

Lifestyle
Here comes the bride and groom: Take a look at this throwback of Black Coffee and Enhle Mbali’s traditional Zulu wedding and white wedding…

Lifestyle
Black Coffee has been accused of backpedalling after he claimed he was never in a customary marriage with Enhle Mbali Mlotshwa.

Entertainment
Tonight’s jackpot is estimated R600 000! Here are the winning Daily Lotto and Daily Lotto Plus results for Saturday, 24 January, brought to you by The Citizen.

Entertainment
It was a deserved bonus point win for the Sharks and one they will hope reignites their season, after a poor start over the first half of it.

Entertainment
Are you a jackpot winner? Check your tickets! Here are the latest Lotto and Lotto Plus results for Saturday 24 January 2026.

Entertainment
High court sets aside fraud-related sentence after discovering she wasn’t a public servant as required by charges.
Science/Tech
Early Friday “there were nearly 113 incidents of people reporting issues with Microsoft 365 as of 1:05 a.m. ET,” reports Reuters. But that’s down “from over 15,890 reports at its peak a day earlier, according to Downdetector.” Reuters points out the outage affected antivirus software Microsoft Defender and data governance software Microsoft Purview, while CRN notes it also impacted “a number of...
Science/Tech
An anonymous reader shared this report from FortuneThe large language models (LLMs) that have captivated the world are not a path to human-level intelligence, two AI experts asserted in separate remarks at Davos. Demis Hassabis, the Nobel Prize-winning CEO of Google DeepMind, and the executive who leads the development of Google’s Gemini models, said today’s AI systems, as impressive as they...
Science/Tech
“NASA remains confident it has a handle on the problem and the vehicle can bring the crew home safely,” reports CNN. But “When four astronauts begin a historic trip around the moon as soon as February 6, they’ll climb aboard NASA’s 16.5-foot-wide Orion spacecraft with the understanding that it has a known flaw — one that has some experts urging the space agency not to fly the mission with...
Science/Tech
An anonymous reader shared this report from Reuters:U.S. insurer Lemonade said on Wednesday it would offer a 50% rate cut for drivers of Tesla electric vehicles when the automaker’s Full Self-Driving (FSD) driver assistance software is steering because it had data showing it reduced accidents. Lemonade’s move is an endorsement of Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s claims that the company’s vehicle...
Motoring

Motoring
Most South Africans cannot afford a new car, opting to shop in the used market instead.

Motoring
A new special-edition Mercedes-Benz CLA will soon grace South Africa’s roads.

Motoring
Ensuring your cargo or payload is secured is not only good practice, it is the law.
Health
The National Institutes of Health failed to protect brain scans that an international group of fringe researchers used to argue for the intellectual superiority of white people.
Health
Dr. Kirk Milhoan, a pediatric cardiologist who leads the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, said a person’s right to refuse a vaccine outweighed concerns about illness or death from infectious diseases.

Health
Tessa Marshall has shared the experience to highlight issues such as women’s rights and sex education.
Health
A crackdown on problems with fairness and safety is achieving results, including a big drop in the number of sick patients being passed over for transplants.