SA risks losing 7 million jobs, reaching over 50% unemploymentMakhura said this was one of the reasons why a Level 4 lockdown would not work in Gauteng for long, as people had been adversely affected by the slowdown of economic activity in the province.The country has been on Level 4 of the lockdown since beginning…
TimesLIVE, Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga met the Council of Education Ministers (CEM) on Monday to discuss schools' readiness to open their doors again under Level 4 of the lockdown, implemented to halt the spread of the novel coronavirus.News24 reported on Monday that Motshekga also met teacher unions and school governing body (SGB) associations to consider…
Here is what is and what isn’t allowed during Level 4"If we do so, we will lose donors. Donors don't want to be associated with wrong things. Make us proud and distribute to the needy. I don't want to be part of a commission of inquiry after coronavirus. If there will be a commission, I…
DA ready to fight back if Maile attempts to appeal Tshwane court judgmentLast month, the court ruled in the DA's favour and found the decision to dissolve the council unlawful. "Interference from one sphere of government into another sphere, as we have here, is seen as most intrusive and can only be resorted to in exceptional…
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
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