Despite an internal investigation finding a senior manager guilty of sexual misconduct, they remain employed by the municipality and continue to receive a salary. Graphic: John McCann Despite an internal investigation finding a senior manager in eThekwini metro’s expenditure and…
A total of R99.5 million in jackpots is up for grabs tonight. Here are your Lotto and Lotto Plus results for 8 April 2026. Get the Lotto and Lotto Plus results as soon as they are drawn on The Citizen, so you can…
African Content Movement (ACM) leader Hlaudi Motsoeneng is being approached by other political parties in the council to take over from ANC mayor Malekula Melato. Former SABC boss and African Content Movement (ACM) leader Hlaudi Motsoeneng is being courted to…
Falling oil prices have brought immediate relief, but supply constraints and infrastructure damage continue to weigh on recovery. The ceasefire agreed between Iran and the United States should bring some relief to a world economy that has been roiled since…
The Economic Freedom Fighters’ (EFF) no-return policy is under scrutiny after a former uMkhonto weSizwe Party (MK Party) activist was elected secretary general of the party’s Nongoma sub-region in northern KwaZulu-Natal. Sthembiso Zulu returned to the EFF after leaving the…
Capitec has the lowest minimum pay among major banks in South Africa. Standard Bank and Absa have increased their minimum pay for employees, but both lenders still fall short of the entry-level salaries offered by Investec, which continues to record…
Conditional: Iran has accepted the ceasefire but on certain terms. A ceasefire between the US and Iran has been declared effective immediately, marking the first formal pause in weeks of escalating conflict, as both sides prepare for high-stakes negotiations in…
Former presidents Zuma and Mbeki took Khampepe’s refusal to recuse herself as commission chair on review to the Johannesburg High Court. Former president Jacob Zuma has escalated his bid to remove Judge Sisi Khampepe as chair of the Truth and…
Joe Latakgomo, the founding editor of the Sowetan newspaper in 1981 – passed away on 22 February 2026. Photo: Supplied Joe Latakgomo, a giant of black journalism in South Africa and founding editor of Sowetan newspaper, who died recently, was…
This is the fourth fire at the same school in the past four years. A fire at Riverlea Secondary School in Johannesburg has left a trail of destruction, destroying an entire classroom block. It is understood that the blaze broke…