The DA and EFF have condemned the looting of Covid-19 funds.This after reports emerged of alleged corruption in a tender involving Presidency spokesperson Khusela Diko's husband. Both parties have called for an SIU investigation. Two of the country's biggest opposition parties, the DA and EFF, have called for an investigation into the R124 million tender involving the…
A person uses hand sanitizer. Eastern Cape Education MEC Fundile Gade has ordered legal action against a supplier of sanitisers. Tests on samples of a sanitiser used at Makaula Secondary School, where 204 tested positive for Covid-19, contained low levels of alcohol.Nine other schools in the virus-hit Alfred Nzo District used sanitisers with alcohol levels between 4.1%-57.6%,…
Public Service Commission director-general Dovhani Mamphiswana. President Cyril Ramaphosa has, to date, taken no action against PSC director-general Dovhani Mamphiswana.The DA says Ramaphosa and his government are attempting to cover up the crimes committed by their "Bonnie and Clyde".The minister of public service and administration denies that Ramaphosa has not acted, saying the president ordered…
The Department of Correctional Services is acting on inmates at an Eastern Cape prison. Mdu Ndzingi/ Drum Magazine/Gallo Images/Getty Ima Awaiting trial prisoners from the Butterworth Correctional Centre blockaded their cell with beds and armed themselves with makeshift weapons.It is understood they demanded to be taken to court, despite the fact that trials are not…
In 2013, a scientist at Abbott Laboratories saw study results with potentially big implications for the company’s profits and the lives of some of the world’s most fragile people: preterm infants. The upshot, she wrote in an email: Babies fed rival Mead Johnson Nutrition’s acidified liquid human milk fortifier — a nutritional supplement used in
4 min read WHEN YOU'RE TELLING a horror story that's based around a family function or family dynamic, it's important to make sure you're getting the parents just right. Ari Aster's Hereditary, which came out in 2018, hit the nail right on the head, casting Toni Collette as the film's lead—and the increasingly unhinged (and
Dietitians regularly talk up the importance of having variety in your diet to make sure you hit your nutritional needs. But new research suggests that’s actually not helpful—at least, not when you’re trying to lose weight. The study, which was published in the journal Health Psychology, makes a strong case for sticking with the same