Two of the three police officers accused of killing Nathaniel Julies were "thirsty for blood", the Protea Magistrate's Court has heard.Prosecutor Mzwandile Mrwabe said Sergeant Simon Scorpion Ndyalvane and Constable Caylene Whiteboy went on a "wild, wild west" shooting spree.Mrwabe said the pair first opened fire on a crowd of people who were drinking liquor…
The remains of one of the vehicles in the head-on crash. Seven people were killed in a head-on collision outside Polokwane.Three people in each of the two BMWs were already dead when paramedics arrived.A woman who had been treated at the scene, died later. A horror scene awaited paramedics called to a head-on collision between two…
Details surrounding the principal's death were still unknown and the police are investigating, the provincial education department says.The principal has been described as "dynamic". Education MEC Debbie Schäfer has asked that the family be given space as they mourn. Western Cape Education MEC Debbie Schäfer has expressed her shock and sadness after a teacher was shot and killed…
A gunman is seen leaving the a restaurant where he appeared to shoot a man dead. A man was killed in what appeared to be a targeted shooting while sitting at a beachside restaurant in Gordon's Bay on Thursday afternoon.CCTV footage of the incident, which is circulating on social media, shows the man enjoying the…
The man accused of murdering SA-born doctor Walter Reynolds in Canada appeared in court on Wednesday. Deng Mabiour reportedly said he had "good reason" to kill Reynolds. Reynolds apparently refused to dispense medication to Mabiour, an alleged drug addict. The man accused of killing a South African-born doctor at a medical clinic in central Alberta, Canada, made a second bizarre…
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