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Humans 4 August 2020 By Michael Marshall A San hunter-gatherer hunting kit, thought to be 150 years oldMarlize Lombard (with permission Hunter-gatherers in Africa may have been using poison-tipped arrows for over 70,000 years, according to a new analysis of ancient arrowheads. This would be the oldest known use of poison arrows in the world,…

A jobs protest in the North West. Total employment in SA's non-agricultural formal sector fell by 3 000 between December 2019 and March 2020, Statistics SA announced on Tuesday in its latest Quarterly Employment Statistics (QES) bulletin. The QES results are based on a sample survey conducted by Stats SA and include findings on employment in the…

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) - The State of Alaska Department of Health and Social Services reports one new COVID-19 death and 98 new COVID-19 cases among Alaska residents.According to a news release from the Yukon-Kuskokwim Health Corporation, YKHC saw it’s first hospitalization and medevac of a COVID-positive person. YKHC says they were aware of the positive…

A Los Angeles police officer died from complications of coronavirus on Friday, the Los Angeles Police Department told Fox News.A department spokesperson declined to provide the officer's name or title. The COVID-19 death marks the first of a sworn officer in the police force and the second department employee.Earlier this month, LAPD senior detention officer…

President Cyril Ramaphosa addresses the nation. President Cyril Ramaphosa opted to listen to the unions and career politicians rather than experts and scientists when he made the decision to close the country's public schools. He has yet again missed an opportunity to lead, writes Pieter du Toit.President Cyril Ramaphosa, ignoring volumes of evidence about why schools…