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…
The consumer group wants the USDA to release information about previously approved testing methods the department now says are unsatisfactory because of false positives. Published: June 12, 2026, 12:05 am Consumer Reports says the USDA should release information about Salmonella testing methods for some chicken products that it first deemed adequate but under the Trump
For more than thirty years I have represented the families on the other end of a foodborne outbreak — the parents of children on dialysis with hemolytic uremic syndrome, the survivors of a contaminated hamburger or a bag of spinach, the people left planning funerals. I built a career holding companies accountable when the food
More people are sick in a multi-country Salmonella outbreak in Europe mainly affecting children and young adults. A total of 83 confirmed cases had symptom onset between December 2025 and mid-May 2026. Another 24 cases identified in 2026 have not yet been sequenced and may be part of the outbreak. At least 20 people have