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…
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