Irvin Khoza (Gallo Images) The (PSL) has announced broadcaster DStv as its new headline sponsor with the league now renamed as the DStv Premiership.The broadcasting giant takes over from Absa Bank as the league's new headline sponsor in a five-year deal starting from the upcoming 2020/2021 campaign.The league, which was previously sponsored by Castle Lager…
Police Minister Bheki Cele appointed a special steering committee to crack down on protection money rackets in Cape Town.He described the extortionists' demands for protection money from restaurants, clubs and now coffee shops with threats of violence if they do not pay as "organised crime".The announcement comes after the City of Cape Town and provincial…
LoCO Staff / Today @ 3:48 p.m. / COVID-19 and Humboldt Humboldt Announces Immediate Implementation of California’s Business Reopening Plan RELATED: 20 New Cases Confirmed Over Last Three Days, Joint Information Center Says; Travel, Gatherings Still Main Driver of Cases# # #Humboldt County Joint Information Center release: The Humboldt County Emergency Operations Center is incorporating the…
Former City of Johannesburg Mayor Herman Mashaba. Tebogo Letsie, Gallo Images Former DA Johannesburg mayor and founder of The People's Dialogue Herman Mashaba will launch his new party.The latest to join his party is state capture whistleblower and former ANC MP, Vytjie Mentor.Mashaba has indicated that more high profile individuals will join his party. Former City…
Wits university announces SA's first Covid-19 vaccine trial, with participants enrolling this week.This comes as the country breaches 100 000 cases of Covid-19.Participants are to be divided in three groups - two groups include HIV-negative participants and one group includes people living with HIV.The University of the Witwatersrand has announced South Africa's first Covid-19 vaccine…
For more than thirty years I have represented the families on the other end of a foodborne outbreak — the parents of children on dialysis with hemolytic uremic syndrome, the survivors of a contaminated hamburger or a bag of spinach, the people left planning funerals. I built a career holding companies accountable when the food
More people are sick in a multi-country Salmonella outbreak in Europe mainly affecting children and young adults. A total of 83 confirmed cases had symptom onset between December 2025 and mid-May 2026. Another 24 cases identified in 2026 have not yet been sequenced and may be part of the outbreak. At least 20 people have
For over thirty years, I have been beating the same drum, and the last few days were no exception (some argue a bit too loudly and self-serving). I have been posting about public health officials — and the FDA — sending out outbreak documents with the names of companies, growers, processors, and retailers blacked out