Former acting national police commissioner General Kgomotso Phahlane. The Labour Court has dismissed an application by former acting national police commissioner General Kgomotso Phahlane challenging his dismissal. Phahlane was fired on 30 July after internal investigations were conducted. The Labour Court said it did not have jurisdiction to entertain the case. Former acting national police commissioner General Kgomotso…
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…
A mother in Florida lost her 20-year-old son to COVID-19, and then 11 days later, her 22-year-old daughter also died from the disease."I hold up pretty much well at the daytime, but at night, it really hits me," Monete Hicks, 48, of Lauderdale Lakes, told NBC 6 of South Florida. "I'm so used to them…
Sharon Seretlo, Gallo Images Michael Wilson, a graphic designer with news channel eNCA, died on Tuesday after being hospitalised with Covid-19 symptoms last week.Wilson joined the company 14 years ago and has been remembered as a person who was dedicated and passionate. eNCA said it continues to follow government protocols and will be taking precautions…
Judge President of the Gauteng Division of the High Court Dunstan Mlambo. A full High Court bench has dismissed the DA's bid to have government stop using BBBEE status, race, gender, age or disability in determining who will receive Covid-19 aid. The court also ruled that the criteria used on who gets aid is unlawful and has…
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