A man standing on a pavement narrowly escaped injury after a taxi collided with a bus and car in Cape Town.In CCTV footage, the taxi is seen changing lanes into oncoming traffic and clipping a MyCiTi bus, but the taxi driver does not stop. The taxi then hits a car reversing and narrowly misses a man…
A man's body has been found near blocks of flats as Red Ants were evicting illegal occupiers.It's unclear if the man's death was linked to the eviction.A group of people have been living illegally in government flats in Fleurhof, Johannesburg.People who allegedly "invaded" government flats in Fleurhof have accused the police of applying maximum force…
An excerpt of a conversation including City of Cape Town Mayco members JP Smith and Malusi Booi has been circulating on social media.It shows a housing official responding that Bulelani Qolani's newly rebuilt shack will have to be demolished, "with or without a naked man".A High Court order allows the City to remove any new…
DA interim leader John Steenhuisen PHOTO: Felix Dlangamandala According to political analysts, the DA is in a policy 'no man's land'. The party could lose the electoral support it enjoys in predominantly black communities, analysts argue.The party has objected against the use of transformation criteria in government Covid-19 assistance, and fighting for farm murders to be…
Lessons from a war zone, anti-apartheid veteran finally home after months locked down in SomaliaHis journey began on a single-propeller plane to Chicago. Then a commercial flight from Chicago to Washington DC. There, he spent two nights in a hotel.The official repatriation flight followed. And then began quarantine, at the Capital-on-Park Hotel, provided by the…
As longevity science has entered the wellness zeitgeist, experts have worked to popularize the idea of healthspan over lifespan—the number of years you thrive, not just survive. And when it comes to the components that drive long-term health, muscle plays an outsize role, Gabrielle Lyon, DO, a family medicine physician and author of Forever Strong
3 min read HEART FAILURE. RECTAL cancer. Brain bleeds. Each of the people in this package of stories might not be alive today without a key medical innovation that took many years, millions of dollars, and countless setbacks and breakthroughs to get quite right. Who are the next people to be saved? Survivors Stories 1.
When the hair rises on the back of your neck through a process called piloerection or something hurts so much your primitive response prompts you to run away, your body can completely block out pain to deal with the survival scenario at hand. “Beautiful” is the word Luke Henderson, PhD, uses to describe this process