Members of the South African National Defence Force on patrol in the Johannesburg. (Chanté Schatz, News24) Parliament wants to know why the Department of Defence is not implementing the recommendations of the Defence Force Service Commission.Recommendations are piling up and no action has been taken.Budget cuts are being blamed for most of the SANDF's challenges.Parliament's…
Ian Poulter (Getty Images) English golfer Ian Poulter hopes the Ryder Cup goes ahead this year even if it has to be played behind closed doors with no fans at the venue.The world, and by extension professional sport, has ground to a complete standstill in 2020 following the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic.However, some sporting…
AB de Villiers (Gallo Images) Former South Africa captain AB de Villiers is still hopeful of returning to the national side for the T20 World Cup but admits things are very much up in the air right now.With the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic, the T20 World Cup - slated for October and November in…
Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here.The U.S. Department of Agriculture intends to make direct payments to farmers as part of a roughly $15 billion effort to protect the nation's food supply amid the coronavirus pandemic, Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue told FOX Business' Stuart Varney on…
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
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