People dig up the road in a protest of service delivery. Residents complaining about the lack of water and electricity services, decided to block the R33 with stones, and dug up the road.Most of the communities in Umzinyathi were in the deep rural parts and it was therefore hard for them to deliver services as…
Andre de Ruyter is Eskom's 13th CEO in the past decade and he knew the task will be challenging.De Ruyter has been nine months on the job, and so far government has given him the space needed to make tough calls.Since taking over he has confronted managers over poor maintenance practices. Andre de Ruyter knew…
Zola Tsotsi Felix Dlangamandla, Netwerk24 Eskom's former chairperson, Zola Tsotsi, continued to give evidence before the commission of inquiry into state capture on Wednesday. Tsotsi said the suspension of four senior board members in 2015 may have been a Gupta ploy to "have people in the organisation who would serve their direct interests".After the four were…
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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Published: November 06, 2026, 10:41 pm Last updated: November 07, 2026, 12:20 am A California pumpkin patch and petting zoo associated with an outbreak of E. coli O157:H7 infections reopened Nov. 6 with the owners saying environmental tests for the pathogen had come back negative. The San Luis Obispo county health department has not posted