Police officers outside the house of Charl Kinnear who was killed outside his Bishop Lavis home. Police detective Charl Kinnear was shot and killed in front of his house in Bishop Lavis in Cape Town on Friday.Kinnear was attached to the Western Cape Anti-Gang Unit as a section commander.Police Minister Bheki Cele is expected to visit…
Health 14 September 2020 By Graham Lawton A family tree of the new coronavirus reveals it is mutating very slowlyKiyoshi Takahase Segundo / Alamy Like any other biological entity, Sars-CoV-2 has a family tree. It is not a very old one – the virus has only been recognised since December – but it still has…
Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu. (Photo: Beeld) Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu and his family are unharmed after the living area of their house in Onrus near Hermanus was damaged in a fire.According to a statement, the couple did not sustain any injuries and "were in good spirits considering events that unfolded around daybreak" on Wednesday."Archbishop Emeritus…
The ANC is once again under fire over allegations of corruption in the tender processes for personal protective equipment (PPE) to fight the Covid-19 pandemic.Last month, two members of the ANC's leadership in Gauteng were hauled before the provincial integrity committee (PIC) following reports that the husband of Presidential spokesperson Khusela Diko, Chief Madzikane II…
Ronwille Jooste, 38, from Jamestown. A dad from Jamestown was shot dead in front of his family on Wednesday.He was gunned down during an armed robbery as he tried to protect his children.No one has been arrested.A father was shot dead while standing in front of his children to protect them from an armed burglar.Ronwille…
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