South African distance running star Glenrose Xaba delivered a tactical masterclass at Marks Park Sports Club to claim victory in the Johannesburg leg of the Totalsports Women’s Race, finishing in 32:11.

A tragic bakkie crash ignites a fierce political feud between Gayton McKenzie and Liam Jacobs, leading to accusations of violence and threats of legal action, as tensions rise within the Patriotic Alliance.

Arsenal powered to a 3-0 win against Manchester City in the Community Shield on Sunday, delivering a swaggering statement of intent ahead of their Premier League title defence. Fast start for Gunners Mikel Arteta’s side used the annual curtain raiser to the English top-flight season as an opportunity to prove their long-awaited title triumph has done nothing to sate their appetite for success. The Gunners took just 24 seconds to show new City boss Enzo Maresca the standard required to keep up with the champions. Riccardo Calafiori’s quick-fire opening goal was followed by a clinical Kai Havertz header before half-time. Arsenal overwhelmed sloppy City with their trademark intensity and Martin Odegaard netted after the interval to cap a resounding victory. The glamour friendly at Cardiff’s Principality Stadium also allowed Arteta to parade Arsenal’s close-season recruits. Bruno Guimaraes, signed from Newcastle for £75 million ($101 million), slotted into midfield with ease, while Christos Tzolis, lured from Club Brugge for £34 million, gave a lively display including two assists. The north Londoners will start a campaign as champions for the first time since the 2004-05 season. Already installed as favourites to win their first successive English titles since the 1930s, Arsenal look primed for a sustained spell as the Premier League’s preeminent force. Their vibrant performance was the perfect warm-up before promoted Coventry visit the Emirates Stadium for the opening game of the Premier League season on August 21. It was a dispiriting wake-up call for Maresca, who will have noted how much more dynamic and cohesive Arsenal looked compared to his spluttering team. Pep Guardiola won 20 trophies in a glorious decade in Manchester, including the FA Cup and League Cup in his farewell season, but City haven’t won the title since 2024 and finished seven points behind Arsenal in second place last term. Hand-picked to succeed Guardiola after quitting Chelsea in January following a turbulent reign lasting less than two seasons, Maresca now knows it will take a huge effort to close the gap on Arsenal, starting with City’s opener at home to Bournemouth on August 23. Rampant Arsenal Arteta believes his players are still “hungry” for trophies, with their painful Champions League final loss to Paris Saint-Germain on penalties in May providing motivation for this season. The Gunners took less than a minute to underline Arteta’s point with a beautifully crafted opener. Myles Lewis-Skelly featured in Arsenal’s midfield despite being linked to Chelsea and Manchester United and the teenager showed why he is in demand with a deft pass that split the City defence. Calafiori surged onto Lewis-Skelly’s ball, evading City’s woeful marking to slot a composed finish past Gianluigi Donnarumma from 12 yards. The left-back’s goal was the quickest in the Community Shield since 1968 and rampant Arsenal struck again in the 27th minute. Martin Odegaard was gifted space to float a cross to the far post and Tzolis, left unmarked by Abdukodir Khusanov, headed it back into the six-yard box, where Havertz climbed above Ruben Dias to nod home. In his first showpiece occasion for City after his £116 million move from Nottingham Forest, England midfielder Elliot Anderson struggled to exert any influence. City talisman Erling Haaland was largely anonymous, wasting two good chances in the first half. Arsenal captain Odegaard showed his Norway teammate how to do it three minutes after half-time. Tzolis rolled a pass into Odegaard’s path and he slalomed through the City defence before leaving Donnarumma embarrassed with a clever dummy and close-range finish. Only City, in 2019, have gone onto become Premier League champions among the previous 15 winners of the Community Shield. On the evidence of their stroll in the Cardiff sunshine, Arsenal’s 18th Community Shield victory won’t be the last silverware lifted by Odegaard this season.

Did you strike it lucky tonight? Get the Daily Lotto and Daily Lotto Plus results as soon as they are drawn on The Citizen, so you can rest easy and check your tickets with confidence. Estimated Daily Lotto jackpot: Daily Lotto: R300 000 Daily Lotto results for Sunday, 16 August 2026: The winning Daily Lotto numbers will appear below after the draw, usually within 10 minutes. You might need to refresh the page to see the updated results. Daily Lotto: 08, 16, 18, 23, 26. While great care has been taken to ensure accuracy, The Citizen cannot take responsibility for any error in the results. For more details and to verify the Daily Lotto results, visit the National Lottery website. How to play Daily Lotto in SA? If you are buying a ticket in-store: Pick up a betslip in any lottery store. Choose five numbers between 1 and 36 or ask for a Quick Pick. Entries cost R3 each. You can play a max of R150, but you are allowed to play multiple boards. Select how many consecutive draws you wish to enter, up to a maximum of 10. Leave blank for a single draw. Take your betslip to the teller to pay for your ticket. Write your details on the back of your ticket in case you need to claim a prize. If you do not sign your ticket and you lose it, anyone can use it to claim the prize. If you are playing online: Set up a lottery account here and make a deposit to pay for tickets. Choose five numbers from 1 to 36 or select ‘Quick Pick’ to generate a random set. Repeat this on as many boards as you want to play. Decide whether to enter a single draw or multiple draws. Confirm and pay for your entry. What time is the Daily Lotto draw? The Daily Lotto draws take place shortly after 9:30pm every evening, and tickets can be bought until 8:30pm. Visit www.nationallottery.co.za and go to the How to Play Daily Lotto section to learn more.

How much is the upcoming Wednesday Lotto and Lotto Plus jackpot on 19 August 2026 worth? It breaks down like so: Straight Lotto will be worth R14.5 million, Lotto Plus 1 sits at R2.5 million and, for Lotto Plus Max 5, you can tag on another R4 million. All tallied up that put’s the total worth at R21 million for Wednesday’s next roll. That’s that maximum possible increase of R4 million across all three games for the week ahead … As ever, success in the Wednesday Lotto and Lotto Plus jackpot on 19 August 2026 comes from knowing how recently any one of the three games has just paid out. This is the second game this month that saw rollovers across the board. Previously, small resets were tempering winnings. Payouts, while more frequent, are rarely climbing high for Lotto and Lotto Plus … WEDNESDAY LOTTO AND LOTTO PLUS JACKPOT 19 AUGUST 2026 As such, the Wednesday Lotto and Lotto Plus jackpot on 19 August 2026 is more like Sizekhaya’s bread-and-butter game. Cheaper than PowerBall and PowerBall XTRA much easier to win, but less dramatic in jackpot size. Nevertheless, Sizekhaya’s 1 June 2026 takeover reshaped it even further. The core mechanics require players to choose six numbers from a pool of 1 to 52, which is reduced from 1 to 58 previously. As ever, numbers can be chosen manually or auto generated through the popular Quick Pick. A standard Lotto board costs R5, with Lotto Plus 1 adding R2.50 and Lotto 5 Max adding a further R2.50 on top. Therefore, playing all three together costs R10 per board. What players are still wrapping their head around is the new MultiPlay (MP1) option. It lets players add a seventh number to their existing six in each of the three games. And it gets proportionally more expensive as you go. The total combination if you add MP1 across all boards is R70 – that’s R35 + R17.50 + R17.50. However, your odds are massively improved if you do go down this rabbit hole. HOW TO HANDLE MULTIPLAY Following two maximum rollovers this month, Wednesday Lotto and Lotto Plus jackpot on 19 August 2026 is finally approaching a decently sized payout. Image: File If you add MP1 to Wednesday Lotto and Lotto Plus jackpot on 19 August 2026, across all three games, your total ticket will cost R70.00. Plus, if you’re using your banking app, be sure to lookout for digital banking fee of roughly R2.95 added to the transaction. So, the question remains, is it worth spending the extra money? Jackpot odds have already improved substantially under the new number matrix. The chances of matching all six numbers now sits at 1 in 20 million. That’s twice as likely as the old 1 in 40 million under ITHUBA. However, dabble with the MP1 and all of a sudden, you’re playing with seven numbers instead of six. This means your odds now become just 1 in 2.9 million, which represents a straight sevenfold improvement. And don’t forget that’s across all three games since they share the same board. DRAW TIMES AND CLAIMING WINNINGS Remember, if you’re playing Wednesday Lotto and Lotto Plus jackpot, decide on a budget before buying lotto tickets, and don’t chase a bad week by spending more. The National Responsible Gambling Programme runs a toll-free counselling line on 0800 006 008 for anyone who is struggling. Lotto and Lotto Plus draws twice weekly at 21:00. Sizekhaya brought back live televised draws using physical draw machines. Ticket sales cut off half an hour before the draw typically at 20:30. All lottery prizes must be claimed within 365 days of the draw date. Anyone who misses that window forfeits their prize and the money is transferred to the National Lottery Distribution Trust for charitable causes. How and where to claim Wednesday Lotto and Lotto Plus jackpot winnings depends on the amount won: Small prizes (up to R4 999) get paid out directly at licensed retailers. Mid-tier prizes (R5 000 to R49 999) can be claimed at selected partner banks. Anything above R50 000 requires an in-person visit to a Sizekhaya regional office, with the original ticket and a valid South African ID. Online and banking-app players have prizes up R249 999 are deposited automatically into their accounts. CONTACT SIZEKHAYA FOR WINNINGS Even old winnings under ITHUBA can be claimed from the new lottery operator. Image: File Anyone unsure where to start can call the Sizekhaya helpline on 0861 026 000. Or you can visit one of the eight regional offices nationally: Head Office/Gauteng at 36 Homestead Road, Edenburg, Sandton KwaZulu-Natal at 10 Rydall Vale Crescent, Umhlanga Ridge Western Cape at 1st Floor, The Barracks, 50 Bree Street, Cape Town Eastern Cape at 153 Cape Road, Newton Park, Port Elizabeth Free State & Northern Cape at 3 Barnes Street, Arboretum, Bloemfontein Limpopo at Gateway Park, Polokwane Mpumalanga at 29@Marloth, Nelspruit And one final note, around R257 million in lottery prizes currently sits unclaimed across South Africa from the previous operator. Therefore, checking old ticket numbers against those drawn (up to one year ago) costs you nothing and might just turn up forgotten money. You can do so by clicking past results HERE.

Danny K is sharing his grief over the loss of his wife, Lisa Koppel, with his social media followers. The R&B singer lost his spouse – the mother of his three children – last weekend after her battle with colorectal cancer. The entertainer and model-turned-lawyer couple wed in 2012. DANNY K SHARES GRIEF OVER WIFE’S LOSS On his Instagram account, Danny K has continued to post pictures and videos of his late wife Lisa Koppel, who passed a week ago. In one post, the singer and his late spouse were seen dancing to Whitney Houston’s popular song, I Wanna Dance With Somebody. The heartbroken artist captioned the post: “You danced with somebody who loved you completely”. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Danny K (@dannykj23) Danny K also posted pictures of his 2012 wedding day at the Lourensford Wine Estate in Somerset West, Western Cape He also revealed that he had been gifted a keepsake piece of jewellery, a necklace featuring an engraved image of Lisa’s face. View this post on Instagram A post shared by SHOHREH CUSTOM MADE – South Africa 🇿🇦 (@shohrehcustomade) ‘SHATTERED’ Earlier this week, Danny K broke his silence on his wife Lisa Koppel’s passing. The R&B singer revealed that his 41-year-old spouse had endured a private battle with colorectal cancer over the last three years. He shared: “She fought with extraordinary strength and determination. Together with our family, we searched for hope in South Africa and around the world, pursuing every treatment and every opportunity available to us. Tragically, despite everything, we could not save her. Danny shared that Lisa chose to keep her illness private as “she never wanted pity, attention or sympathy” He continued: “Above all, she wanted to protect our children and preserve their happiness and innocence for as long as possible. “Even through the hardest moments, she remained gentle, humble and remarkably brave, inspiring everyone who walked this journey beside her” “The Koppel and Gundelfinger families have been left shattered. I have lost the wife I worshipped, our three children have lost an extraordinary mother, and her family and friends have lost someone they deeply loved”. RAISING AWARENESS FOR COLORECTAL CANCER 

Anthropic projects revenue of up to $200-billion by 2028, against a $47-billion run rate today, as it prepares for a mega-listing.

Silver Lake is said to be in talks to acquire Workday in a deal that would rank among the largest software buyouts in history.