Melanie Verwoerd’s dad died this past week. She says goodbye to him in this moving tribute. My dad died suddenly a few days ago. He wasn’t always my dad, but he became my dad.I have a vague memory of the first time Philip came to me and my mum’s flat and took her out for…
As we have seen in America, racism will simmer away until there is one incident too many and it all becomes too much. This can easily happen in South Africa as well.On Saturday evening I was watching a video recording of a speaker at a rally in America, following the horrific killing of George Floyd…
Published: November 07, 2026, 9:48 pm The County of San Luis Obispo Department of Public Health is wrapping up its investigation into an outbreak of E. coli O157:H7 infections linked to Brookshire Farms in San Luis Obispo. Fifteen people are included in the outbreak – five who were laboratory confirmed. The county previously reported that
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Published: November 06, 2026, 10:41 pm Last updated: November 07, 2026, 12:20 am A California pumpkin patch and petting zoo associated with an outbreak of E. coli O157:H7 infections reopened Nov. 6 with the owners saying environmental tests for the pathogen had come back negative. The San Luis Obispo county health department has not posted