Eskom guards were shot dead. Two security guards contracted to Eskom shot dead in Philippi East, Cape Town, on Monday afternoon.The guards were accompanying two Eskom technicians attending to a fault in the area.Eskom employees managed to escape from the scene.Two security guards were shot dead in Philippi East, Cape Town, on Monday afternoon while escorting…
Eskom's patience with the non-payment of accounts by Mpumalanga's municipalities have reached breaking point to such an extent that it has capped the amount of power supplied to these entities.One of the towns hardest hit by this capping is Bethal, which falls under the control of the Govan Mbeki Municipality in Secunda.Eskom has cut the…
Published: November 08, 2026, 8:00 am Quick bites from around the food safety arena this week Infant formula maker ByHeart has “discontinued” manufacturing its products after getting caught up in an outbreak of infant botulism. ByHeart’s founders started a new company, MeridianMade, earlier this year and announced in late October that it would purchase Dublin-based
Published: November 07, 2026, 9:48 pm The County of San Luis Obispo Department of Public Health is wrapping up its investigation into an outbreak of E. coli O157:H7 infections linked to Brookshire Farms in San Luis Obispo. Fifteen people are included in the outbreak – five who were laboratory confirmed. The county previously reported that
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