A case has been opened at the Rondebosch police station.The statue at Rhodes Memorial was found with its head missing on Monday.The SA National Park's regional spokesperson Lauren Howard-Clayton confirmed the incident of vandalism.Western Cape police are investigating a case of malicious damage to property after the head of a Cecil John Rhodes statue was…
A statue of Cecil John Rhodes was vandalised at Cape Town's Rhodes Memorial, with the head removed from the bust.The SA National Park's regional spokesperson, Lauren Howard-Clayton, confirmed to News24 that the statue had been vandalised this week, and that a case had been opened with the police."We did discover the vandalism of the statue.…
Sizwe Mpofu-Walsh was among those at the forefront of the Rhodes Must Fall campaign at Oxford University more than 5 years ago.The Rhodes Must Fall protests have resurfaced at Oxford University in the wake of George Floyd's killing.Mpofu-Walsh reflects on his time at Oxford and says the protesting at Oxford is the fruit of what…
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