Springbok lock Victor Matfield in action during the third Test between South Africa and the British and Irish Lions at Ellis Park on 4 July 2009. The 2021 British and Irish Lions tour now holds added value because of the impact of the coronavirus pandemic.Victor Matfield says the British and Irish Lions were pretty big-mouthed…
Springboks Lionel Mapoe and Ruan Combrick could be back at Ellis Park, Sport24 understands.The duo were part of the Lions' three-year run where they made the Super Rugby final before leaving for French club Stade Français.The Lions lost star hooker Malcolm Marx and promising youngster Tyrone Green during the 21-day transfer window and are working…
Pieter Burger (Pumas - Facebook) The Lions have announced the appointment of Pieter Burger as managing director of Ellis Park Stadium (Pty) Ltd.He replaces Edgar Rathbone, who recently accepted the role as CEO of the Blue Bulls Company.Burger is currently the CEO of the Mpumalanga Rugby Union and will start his new role on 1…
Springboks (Getty Images) The team entertaining the prestigious British and Irish Lions every four years - whether it is the specific turn of South Africa, New Zealand or Australia - always commands at least one significant, reasonably obvious edge: familiarity.Register your interest for the British & Irish Lions tickets in South Africa 2021Unless the host…
Jonathan Kaplan believes the 2021 British and Irish Lions tour to South Africa will see a tough series that is too close to call.Kaplan has refereed in four Lions series' to date.That includes the tour by the Lions to South Africa in 1997 and 2009 in which he refereed warm-up matches as well as two…
The U.S. company that sold infant formula related to the most recent outbreak of infant botulism imported the product from Germany. However, Nara Organics has not named the specific manufacturer of the formula. “Nara works with a state of the art manufacturer in Germany who has over 70 years of experience making top European infant
When I started suing food companies more than thirty years ago, after E. coli O157:H7 in undercooked Jack in the Box hamburgers killed four children and sickened hundreds, proving where a pathogen came from was slow, painstaking, and often impossible. Investigators matched bacteria using crude “fingerprinting” methods that could tell you two samples looked similar
State and federal public health officials are investigating a new outbreak of infant botulism poisoning. So far the outbreak has sickened three babies across three states: California, Pennsylvania and Washington, according to the Food and Drug Administration. The California Department of Public Health has reported that the infections are among infants who were fed Nara