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…
California is weighing stiff penalties for hospitals and other healthcare entities that don’t stay under state spending limits, potentially levying hundreds of millions of dollars in fines if these providers don’t take steps to rein in rising healthcare costs. If the state Office of Health Care Affordability adopts the fines next week, hospitals, medical groups
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