The man is a high school teacher in Kwamhlanga, Mpumalanga.He allegedly assaulted the mother of his child by kicking her and beating her with a wooden pole.He has been arrested and charged with three counts of assault.A 34-year-old man, who allegedly assaulted the mother of his child by kicking her and beating her with a…
A Mpumalanga security guard has appeared in court on charges that include child rape.The man was allegedly a friend of the complainants' families.The girls would sleep over and when his wife was away he allegedly abused them.A 35-year-old security guard appeared in the Nelspruit Magistrate's Court on Wednesday for rape, sexual assault and child grooming…
Mpumalanga police are searching for the alleged rapists of two underaged girls in that province. The youngest victim is two years old and was gang raped by two men. One man has been arrested in connection with the rape of an eight-year-old girl. Mpumalanga police are on the hunt for two men who allegedly raped a two-year-old girl…
Teaching during Level 3 lockdown at Nhlanhlayethu Secondary School in Durban. Mpumalanga's Education MEC is worried about criminals targeting schools during the country's Covid-19 lockdown.One school has been burgled seven times since South Africa's lockdown first started towards the end of March.MEC Bonakele Majuba is also concerned about the shortage of water at some schools.Access…
The death toll from Covid-19 is edging towards the 1 000 mark - recorded as 998 on Sunday evening.All nine provinces have now recorded a death after Mpumalanga recorded its first one.Recoveries or non-active cases stood at 24 364 of the 48 285 cases.Mpumalanga has recorded its first Covid-19 death as current cases neared 50…
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
A senior adviser at the Department of Health and Human Services spent this week posting three claims about food safety on X, each one preceded by a red exclamation point and the word FACT. As of Thursday, August 20, 2026, CDC counts 10,930 people sick in the federal Cyclospora outbreak, at least 454 of them hospitalized, two