Mpumalanga police have warned the community of a transport scam in Pienaar near Mbombela, where motorists lured under the pretence of being paid to transport herbs were robbed and their cars stripped. According to police, armed men call unsuspecting bakkie owners pretending to need someone with a vehicle to transport traditional herbs to another area.…
Mpumalanga Disaster Management employee allegedly shot dead by husbandIn another incident, also on Thursday, an 18-year-old woman was allegedly raped by a 31-year-old man believed to be her friend. The incident also took place at Vosman. Hlathi said an argument had broken out between the two, after which the man allegedly assaulted and raped the woman.…
WATCH | 'Kom, julle bliksems!' - worshippers arrested at Mpumalanga mosque"There are such things that community members themselves are provocative towards the police. We do check the members. The only problem, we don't have the structures to check the community when they are provocative, when they are offensive, to the law enforcers."He complained that police…
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