DA MP Werner Horn will lead the party's investigation into federal chairperson Helen Zille’s controversial apartheid tweets. Zille is in hot water after she tweeted that there were more racist laws in the country now than there were during apartheid.DA Western Cape leader Bonginkosi Madikizela said he supported the FLC’s investigation.Chairperson of the DA's federal legal commission…
Former prime minister Olof Palme. Swedish authorities have cleared the South African apartheid regime of any links to the 1986 assassination of prime minister Olof Palme.The prosecuting authority said on Tuesday it believed Stig Engström killed Palme over his left-wing values.Investigators in the matter tested the bullets used to kill Palme against 788 weapons but…
denied it leave to appeal last year. The Nelson Mandela Foundation and the SA Human Rights Commission had taken the case to court, asking that the gratuitous display of the flag be stopped.Handing down judgment in August last year, Mojapelo said the display of the old flag gratuitously demeaned and dehumanised based on race.He added the display also…
California is weighing stiff penalties for hospitals and other healthcare entities that don’t stay under state spending limits, potentially levying hundreds of millions of dollars in fines if these providers don’t take steps to rein in rising healthcare costs. If the state Office of Health Care Affordability adopts the fines next week, hospitals, medical groups
Everything Sprouts LLC of Minneapolis, MN, is recalling three varieties of alfalfa sprouts products because they have been linked to a 15-state outbreak of Shiga toxin producing E. coli (STEC) and/or Salmonella. The recalled products were distributed by Everything Sprouts from May 27 to Aug. 21 to wholesale distributors and to grocery stores located in
The patient count for an outbreak of infections from the Cyclospora parasite linked to iceberg lettuce has topped 10,000. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is reporting 10,930 patients as of Aug. 21, up from 9,481 reported on Aug. 13. The sick people are spread across 17 states. There are 454 patients who have