South African Police Service. (Photo by Gallo Images/Brenton Geach) According to police, the 20-year-old student was last seen with her "new boyfriend" on 29 August. The boyfriend reportedly killed himself on 31 August. Meanwhile, police were also searching for a teenager who went missing after being sent home from school after he was involved in a…
Washington DC police have admitted to shot dead an 18-year-old black man.Officers were responding to a tip about guns being stashed in a car.Police officers recovered two guns.Police shot dead an African-American man in the US capital Washington on Wednesday, the police said, in the latest of a slew of police killings of black men…
Five accused, including four police captains, appear in court on charges of fraud and corruption. Five accused, including four police captains, are linked to a R56 million fraudulent police branding case.They were granted R5 000 bail in the Protea Magistrate's Court. There is a total of 36 accused in this case and all are expected to…
A general view of consumers queuing to buy liquor at Spar Tops in Melville. Gallo Images/Martin de Kock Ekurhuleni police arrested 265 people over the weekend for various crimes, including drunk driving, possession of narcotics and theft. Police also conducted visits to 102 pubs in the area, of which only nine were compliant with Covid-19 regulations. The…
Violence erupted in a Cape Town suburb today when SAPS and the City of Cape Town dismantled allegedly illegal dwellings. The piece of land in question lies between the suburb of Kensington and Wingfield military base, near Goodwood in the city’s Northern Suburbs. It is understood that the land is state-owned. (Picture: Leslie Swartz) Yet…
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
For over thirty years, I have been beating the same drum, and the last few days were no exception (some argue a bit too loudly and self-serving). I have been posting about public health officials — and the FDA — sending out outbreak documents with the names of companies, growers, processors, and retailers blacked out