Health Minister Zweli Mkhize PHOTO: Darren Stewart/Gallo Images Two kinds of antibody tests are now legal in South Africa - five months since the tests were first deemed essential.They are "rapid, point-of-care tests" and laboratory tests.Nine companies have been licensed by regulatory agency Sahpra to offer the tests.The health ministry has also listed the limitations…
Sale Sharks (Photo by David Rogers/Getty Images) Solidarity has hit out at minister of sport Nathi Mthethwa for criticising South African rugby players refusing to kneel for the Black Lives Matter movement.The trade union says the minister's behaviour infringes on the players' freedom of speech, belief and religion. DA member of parliament Zakhele Mbele has…
Chairperson of the ad hoc committee tasked with amending Section 25 of the Constitution, Mathole Motshekga. PHOTO: Jan Gerber, News24 The basic education department has said Minister Angie Motshekga's husband does not own a factory that produces sanitisers for schools.The department said the allegations made against Dr Mathole Motshekga were "desperate and far-fetched lies".It added…
WATCH the stream on News24 50m ago South Africa had 21 325 murders between 1 April 2019 and 31 March 2020, the police announced to the Portfolio Committee on Police on Friday.This is 303 murders more than the previous year, and increase of 1.4%. 57m ago FF Plus thanks Cele for rural safety strategyFF Plus…
Zimbabwe's agriculture minister Perrance Shiri has died. Zimbabwe's Lands and Agriculture Minister Perrance Shiri has died just days after his driver, who succumbed to Covid-19.The cause of Shiri's death has not been made public yet.He was admitted to hospital on Tuesday, several days after his personal driver was buried. The assistant had tested positive for…
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