led by Deputy President David Mabuza, Presidency spokesperson Khusela Diko said. At that meeting, Mabuza said traditional leaders would play an important role in disseminating information to rural South Africans on the novel coronavirus and the measures taken by government. Diko said Ramaphosa had recently held consultative meetings with the National Economic Development and Labour Council, the President's…
Inside Ramaphosa's meeting with opposition leadersThe country’s tourism industry has been hard hit by the Covid-19 pandemic, with Tourism Minister Mmamoloko Kubayi-Ngubane informing Parliament last week that her portfolio was the hardest hit by the pandemic.South Africa closed off its borders when Ramaphosa announced a lockdown in March, with citizens from several hotspot countries being…
Covid-19: The seven hardest-hit districts in SA and why lockdown can’t be lifted yetRamaphosa, Health Minister Zweli Mkhize and Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma attended the meeting, where they articulated the need for a stronger partnership with faith-based leaders, three religious leaders told News24. "The overwhelming sentiment by religious leaders was to…
2020-05-18 07:52 The exercise of the fundamental freedoms of expression, association and speech is a barometer of the good health of our democracy. But much more than that, these rights are essential to the success of our national and collective struggle to overcome the coronavirus, writes President Cyril Ramaphosa in his weekly newsletter.Dear fellow South…
The president of South Africa is loving every moment of Level 4 liberation, it seems.In Rosebank in Johannesburg on Sunday morning, Cyril Ramaphosa was spotted by several early morning walkers - in a potluck encounter captured by Sowetan editor Nwabisa Makunga. Makunga captured a trio of women on video, persuading SA's first citizen to pose with…
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