Elzabie, Breggie and Danie Brand. An elderly couple and their adult daughter have gone missing after they were seemingly attacked on their smallholding in Hartswater in the Northern Cape on Sunday.Netwerk24 reported that guests arrived at the couple's home on Monday afternoon, only to find it deserted, ransacked and bloodstained.Danie Brand, 83, and his wife,…
Fourteen members of the same family in Texas tested positive for the coronavirus following a small gathering in June, the family says. One of them has died and another is on life support.Tony Green, who lives in Dallas, said that after months of social distancing, he and his partner hosted a party for their parents…
An East London family found out a week after the funeral of a family member that they had buried a stranger.The bungle was caused by Frere Hospital mortuary workers.This is a second Eastern Cape hospital in the news for such a mistake in less than a month."I received a phone call from the Frere Hospital…
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Eastern Cape teacher Lulamile Ngqezana. A family says it is shocked after it received the body of someone who died from Covid-19, rather than their relative. The Ngqezana family in PE said they grew suspicious when the parlour brought the body in a coffin wrapped in plastic. The family said the undertaker ripped the plastic open to…
The consumer group wants the USDA to release information about previously approved testing methods the department now says are unsatisfactory because of false positives. Published: June 12, 2026, 12:05 am Consumer Reports says the USDA should release information about Salmonella testing methods for some chicken products that it first deemed adequate but under the Trump
For more than thirty years I have represented the families on the other end of a foodborne outbreak — the parents of children on dialysis with hemolytic uremic syndrome, the survivors of a contaminated hamburger or a bag of spinach, the people left planning funerals. I built a career holding companies accountable when the food
More people are sick in a multi-country Salmonella outbreak in Europe mainly affecting children and young adults. A total of 83 confirmed cases had symptom onset between December 2025 and mid-May 2026. Another 24 cases identified in 2026 have not yet been sequenced and may be part of the outbreak. At least 20 people have