Anika de Beer. (Hoërskool Montana, Facebook) A Grade 11 pupil from Pretoria died during a training flight on Tuesday.Anika de Beer dreamt of completing her pilot's licence and had completed her first solo flight a few days before the fatal crash. The Civil Aviation Authority is investigating the crash. A Grade 11 pupil at Hoërskool Montana in…
A South African business anticipates supply of 5 000 test kits per day from the end of July.The kits will produce results within two hours.The company also sees a demand from international firms.A shortage of test kits has undermined South Africa's early response to the coronavirus crisis, but a local biotechnology firm is stepping up…
A woman died in what is believed to be another case of gender-based violence A 42-year-old Pretoria woman was murdered in another incident of gender-based violence on Sunday morning.Gauteng police are on the hunt for a man known to the woman, who was also the last person she was in contact with prior to her…
'Nothing good comes from alcohol' - Cele says booze central in death of KZN teen 'Bobo'Responding to News24's questions on the visit, Peters offered a lengthy explanation. She said Cele visited at least two specific residential areas, where there had been reports of "business as usual with little police visibility".She said Cele was in KwaDambuza…
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