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%,…
Minister of Finance, Tito Mboweni (Photo by Gallo Images/Ziyaad Douglas) Gallo Images/Ziyaad Douglas The Democratic Alliance has filed an urgent interdict application at the North Gauteng Division of the High Court to prevent any money for SAA coming from "emergency" funding.The Public Finance Management Act (PFMA) gives Finance Minister Tito Mboweni "emergency" powers to spend…
Former SAA chairperson Dudu Myeni. (File photo: Gallo Images) The Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse and the SAA Pilots' Association are applying to the Pretoria High Court seeking an order that a prior court order in May, declaring Dudu Myeni as a delinquent director, must be enforceable despite the former SAA board chair's appeal of the…
Commuters at Bara Taxi Rank on June 01, 2020 in Soweto. The Gauteng provincial government has been granted an interdict against a Johannesburg taxi association. The Johannesburg Minibus Taxi Association has been preventing another association from operating. Transport MEC Jacob Mamabolo says a "war zone" has been averted. Gauteng Public Transport and Roads Infrastructure MEC Jacob Mamabolo has been granted…
The Hawks in Rustenberg have arrested two men for imperonating lawyers.The men claimed to be representing two suspects arrested earlier for stealing diesel worth R480 000.The men attempted to bribe a police officer investigating the case.Two men have been arrested by the Hawks in Rustenburg for impersonating the lawyers of two people caught allegedly stealing…
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
A senior adviser at the Department of Health and Human Services spent this week posting three claims about food safety on X, each one preceded by a red exclamation point and the word FACT. As of Thursday, August 20, 2026, CDC counts 10,930 people sick in the federal Cyclospora outbreak, at least 454 of them hospitalized, two