The ANC's Limpopo treasurer was by all appearances VBS Mutual Bank's chief political fixer.Evidence suggests he also connected the VBS fraudsters to the highest echelons of the ruling party.He may even have introduced the criminal bank to the Gupta crime family.Danny Msiza's fingerprints are all over the VBS scandal. As one of the ANC's top…
National ministers are to be deployed to the Western Cape to assist in the province's fight against Covid-19, a report says. It is still unclear what the ministers' mandate is, but they will be sent to hotspots.While some in the DA raised micromanagement concerns, Premier Alan Winde and Minister Jackson Mthembu denied this, saying it…
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