Minister in the Presidency Jackson Mthembu delivering a post-Cabinet briefing on Thursday. All executives in government will head back to school through training programmes, Cabinet has decided.Cabinet met on Wednesday to discuss various issues, including corruption surrounding the procurement of PPE.It also postponed the hosting of the 2020 International Maritime Organisation and World Maritime Day event.Cabinet…
Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga Cabinet is expected to be advised to close schools across South Africa for three weeks.The announcement will be tabled on Thursday, with an announcement expected soon thereafter.This as teachers' unions have been engaging with government to close schools amid a surge in Covid-19 infections.The National Coronavirus Command Council (NCCC) is…
A view of SAA airplanes at Cape Town International Airport on February 18, 2020. Gallo Images/Jacques Stander South African government supports restructuring proposals for SAA that include job cuts as well as the introduction of equity partners in the long troubled airline.In a statement released on Friday, Cabinet said it was in support of "...…
Cabinet has decided to defer taking a decision on recommendations made by the NCCC on amending regulations under alert Level 3. It wants the group of scientists advising government to first present a full health assessment.The recommendations on amending regulations under alert Level 3 comes after various sectors have made representations to government. Cabinet has deferred taking…
Cabinet has approved a plan to establish a single National Petroleum Company. Cabinet has given its approval to start a process to establish a single National Petroleum Company.The entity will be made up of the three current subsidiaries of the Central Energy Fund, namely PetroSA, the Strategic Fuel Fund and iGas, Cabinet said in a…
When I started suing food companies more than thirty years ago, after E. coli O157:H7 in undercooked Jack in the Box hamburgers killed four children and sickened hundreds, proving where a pathogen came from was slow, painstaking, and often impossible. Investigators matched bacteria using crude “fingerprinting” methods that could tell you two samples looked similar
State and federal public health officials are investigating a new outbreak of infant botulism poisoning. So far the outbreak has sickened three babies across three states: California, Pennsylvania and Washington, according to the Food and Drug Administration. The California Department of Public Health has reported that the infections are among infants who were fed Nara
The recalled product was distributed nationally through the online platforms, Amazon, Walmart, TikTok Shop, Target, and the company's websites, tnvitamins.com and doctorspride.com. Published: June 12, 2026, 10:11 pm Total Nutrition Inc. of Deer Park, NY is voluntarily expanding its recall of TNVitamins and Doctor's Pride Ultra Potent Complete Green Superfood Moringa Capsules because they have