The Hawks have made an arrest. Felix Dlangamandla, Gallo Images, Netwerk24 A supply chain officer and senior financial officer in the office of the KwaZulu-Natal premier are to appear in the Durban Commercial Crimes Court on Thursday, according to the Hawks."Some of the accused are making their way to court, but are not there yet," Hawks…
Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionAyesha Orlanda had been in intensive care for 41 days after being admitted in May. A senior nurse who had been in a coma for 40 days with coronavirus has been given an emotional send-off from hospital by her colleagues.Ayesha Orlanda, 52, a senior sister at Bradford…
Public Service Commission director-general Dovhani Mamphiswana. Boitumelo Mogwe was appointed chief director for professional ethics by PSC director-general Dovhani Mamphiswana, who is also the father of her child.An investigation was launched after reports that Mamphiswana fraudulently hired the mother of his child as a director at the entity.Mamphiswana chaired a panel which had shortlisted candidates, a…
Senior clinicians in the Faculty of Health Sciences at Wits University have volunteered to participate in South Africa's first Covid-19 vaccine trial at Baragwanath Hospital in Johannesburg, South Africa. Daniel Born, Wits University Three senior clinicians at Wits University enrol for SA's first Covid-19 vaccine trial.The participants enrolled on Tuesday at a Soweto trial site.The…
Seven men accused of defrauding VBS Mutual Bank appeared in the Palm Ridge Regional Court on 18 June 2020. The eighth senior executive in the VBS Mutual Bank investigation has been arrested.He will appear in the Palm Ridge Magistrate's Court on Monday.He missed his previous court appearance because he was in quarantine. The eighth senior executive…
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