A worker sanitises a classroom. Teacher unions are against the return of more grades to school.The unions have all told News24 they are worried about the safety of teachers and pupils.They believe Minister Angie Motshekga's decision was premature. Teachers unions are against the return of Grades R, 6 and 11 to school next week.Three unions told…
A young teacher who graduated in 2018 and started her career in 2019 has been murdered.She was found dead at her home on Monday.A case of murder is being investigated by the police.A 25-year-old North West teacher was found dead after being allegedly strangled on Monday, the provincial education department said on Wednesday morning.The Life…
KwaZulu-Natal Premier Sihle Zikalala PHOTO: Supplied by KZN Health Department Covid-19 cases are emerging from KZN schools with mostly teachers infected.In one week, the number of cases at schools more than doubled.Schools will be shut down for no more than three days if infections are found, Zikalala said.Teachers are emerging as the most infected with…
A picture of the assignment. The Cape Town teacher who set the "fun" activity to draw a poster advertising a slave auction has resigned.Parklands College secondary faculty principal Sylvia Steyn said he had resigned during an online discussion on the matter. Due to the coronavirus restrictions, the teacher had set the task during one of his…
Randall Solomons, a teacher at Macassar High School in Cape Town, succumbed to the coronavirus last month. (Photo: Facebook/Randall Douglas Solomons) Much-loved history teacher Randall Solomons had taught at Macassar High School in Cape Town, his alma mater, for 25 years.He succumbed to Covid-19 and was buried two days before the schools reopened in the…
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
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