President Cyril Ramaphosa (PHOTO: GCIS) As parents, teachers, governing bodies and government, we are in agreement that no school should re-open until all the necessary precautions are in place. There needs to be transparency about the level of preparedness of each of the schools, writes President Cyril Ramaphosa in his weekly newsletter.Dear fellow South African,Today…
President Cyril Ramaphosa. (GCIS) President Cyril Ramaphosa has given the strongest endorsement of the National Health Insurance programme. He says government's response to the Covid-19 pandemic was a trial run for SA's medical future. This is despite the fact that there were unresolved tensions around a public-private partnership in treating Covid-19 patients. The government’s response to the Covid-19…
President Cyril Ramaphosa is currently walking a tightrope as he, together with Cabinet fast track regulations as the country is set to move to alert Level 3 on Monday.-GCIS President Cyril Ramaphosa met with the South African National Editors' Forum to engage on issues surrounding Covid-19 in the country. Among the issues raised by editors…
DA interim leader John Steenhuisen argues the DMA violates the constitutional principle of the separation of powers, because there is no effective parliamentary oversight.READ | Lockdown DA calls for parliamentary oversight of state of disaster in ConCourt bidSteenhuisen said the Act allowed for the unconstitutional delegation of Parliament's powers to the executive and gave Dlamini-Zuma "exceedingly…
South Africa will be moving to Alert Level 3 of the lockdown, but the coronavirus will get much worse, before it gets better, President Cyril Ramaphosa said in an address to the nation on Sunday evening. He concluded his speech by using the words of Nelson Mandela when he said “it is now in your…
For 20 years I have been saying some version of the same thing about leafy greens and cattle. Water runs downhill. Cows poop. Lettuce grows at the bottom of the hill. Now FDA’s own scientists have put real numbers on it, and they deserve credit for doing it. A new paper in the Journal of Food
Published: November 08, 2026, 8:00 am Quick bites from around the food safety arena this week Infant formula maker ByHeart has “discontinued” manufacturing its products after getting caught up in an outbreak of infant botulism. ByHeart’s founders started a new company, MeridianMade, earlier this year and announced in late October that it would purchase Dublin-based
Published: November 07, 2026, 9:48 pm The County of San Luis Obispo Department of Public Health is wrapping up its investigation into an outbreak of E. coli O157:H7 infections linked to Brookshire Farms in San Luis Obispo. Fifteen people are included in the outbreak – five who were laboratory confirmed. The county previously reported that