Flooding in Khayelitsha after heavy rains (Supplied) Some residents in informal settlements have been left homeless after heavy rains in Cape Town.According to the City's Disaster Risk Management, no emergency shelters have been activated.Trees were uprooted, roads were flooded and power cuts were experienced across the city.Several residents of informal settlements in Cape Town have…
Health Minister Zweli Mkhize. Photo by Christiaan du Plessis The first 20 out of 1 000 ventilators donated from the US have been installed at Chris Hani Baragwanath Academic Hospital.The next donation of ventilators will be used in facilities in the Western Cape.On Friday, the country recorded 43 434 positive cases, 908 deaths and 23…
Students at the University of Cape Town. UCT professor Nicoli Nattrass has accused the university of bending to political pressure when it condemned paper she authored as "offensive to black students".The paper, according to Nattrass, was part of exploratory research to understand why conservation biology at UCT struggles to attract black South African students.Nattrass claims…
ROME (AP) — As Italy prepares to emerge from the West’s first and most extensive coronavirus lockdown, it is increasingly clear that something went terribly wrong in Lombardy, the hardest-hit region in Europe’s hardest-hit country.Italy had the bad luck of being the first Western nation to be slammed by the outbreak, and its official total…
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
The recalled product was distributed nationally through the online platforms, Amazon, Walmart, TikTok Shop, Target, and the company's websites, tnvitamins.com and doctorspride.com. Published: June 12, 2026, 10:11 pm Total Nutrition Inc. of Deer Park, NY is voluntarily expanding its recall of TNVitamins and Doctor's Pride Ultra Potent Complete Green Superfood Moringa Capsules because they have
The consumer group wants the USDA to release information about previously approved testing methods the department now says are unsatisfactory because of false positives. Published: June 12, 2026, 12:05 am Consumer Reports says the USDA should release information about Salmonella testing methods for some chicken products that it first deemed adequate but under the Trump