Covid-19: Find homeschooling information hereActivity in the country ground to a halt towards the end of March, as the government instituted a nationwide lockdown. Lesufi said the department was already receiving inquiries, making the decision to limit the application period to one month rather difficult. He added he would announce further details closer to the opening…
Lockdown Level 3: Here's what's allowedMeanwhile, production at an AngloGold mine in Gauteng has halted becasue of Covid-19, the department said. Breakdown of the remaining cases per district:Sedibeng: 49 cases, 21 recoveriesWest Rand: 111 cases, 47 recoveriesUnallocated: 238 casesIn the City of Johannesburg district, City of Johannesburg B was the sub-district with the most cases -…
No visitors, 3 screenings a day - all you need to know about Gauteng's plan for school reopeningWhile the programme is seeking to accommodate an intake of 7 000 people, the department has, however, received at least 120 000 applications, Gauteng Education MEC Panyaza Lesufi announced during a briefing by the Provincial Command Council, which is steering…
grades 7 and 12 would be returning from 1 June as the department grapples to save the academic year after it was forced to close its doors in March when the pandemic hit the country. While Motshekga said teachers would start returning from 25 May, some principals and school management teams (SMTs) have already returned to school.The minister…
The whole of Gauteng will move to Level 3 in June"Yes, we want the economy to open, we would like to return to some kind of new normal but the decisions as to who goes to what level will be made by the NCC [NCCC]," Makhura told journalists on Wednesday, while on tour of the…
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has declared an end to a dual outbreak of E. coli and Salmonella traced to alfalfa sprouts and the seeds used to grow them. The outbreak traced to Everything Sprouts of Minneapolis, MN, and Berlin Seeds of Millersburg, OH, was unusual because it included more than one pathogen
For 20 years I have been saying some version of the same thing about leafy greens and cattle. Water runs downhill. Cows poop. Lettuce grows at the bottom of the hill. Now FDA’s own scientists have put real numbers on it, and they deserve credit for doing it. A new paper in the Journal of Food
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