A speeding driver sideswiped a Toyota Fortuner in Greytown, KwaZulu-Natal, on Friday.The vehicle did a 180 degree roll before coming to a standstill on its side. Neither driver was injured.The police have issued an accident report, but no case was opened. CCTV footage making the rounds on social media captured the moment a Toyota Fortuner and…
World-renowned DJ and producer Black Coffee reportedly organised and later postponed a march against gender-based violence.The march, however, went ahead with a few people marching to Johannesburg Central police station.President Cyril Ramaphosa issued a statement condemning the spate of murders of women and children after a surge in incidents of gender-based violence and femicide.A small group of protesters…
Cloudy Deliveries is a bicycle delivery service that has been operating in Langa, Cape Town, since the beginning of this year.The small business was started by law student Colin Mkosi, who employs a fleet of 11 local high school boys to operate the deliveries.The young men shop for groceries, deliver takeouts and carry stock to…
Seasoned snake catcher Nick Evans witnessed his first pair of black mambas fighting this mating season.The two males had a go at each other for the "mating rights" of a female lurking in concrete blocks.Evans only succeeded in catching the female, which measured about 2m, a day later.Black mamba mating season is in full swing…
A giant squid was found on a beach in Britannia Bay in the Western Cape.The squid, which measured 4.19m, was not a fully grown adult, according to marine biologist Dr Wayne Florence.The specimen has been sent to the Iziko Museums of South Africa to add to its marine invertebrate collection.A giant squid was found stranded,…
In 2013, a scientist at Abbott Laboratories saw study results with potentially big implications for the company’s profits and the lives of some of the world’s most fragile people: preterm infants. The upshot, she wrote in an email: Babies fed rival Mead Johnson Nutrition’s acidified liquid human milk fortifier — a nutritional supplement used in
4 min read WHEN YOU'RE TELLING a horror story that's based around a family function or family dynamic, it's important to make sure you're getting the parents just right. Ari Aster's Hereditary, which came out in 2018, hit the nail right on the head, casting Toni Collette as the film's lead—and the increasingly unhinged (and
Dietitians regularly talk up the importance of having variety in your diet to make sure you hit your nutritional needs. But new research suggests that’s actually not helpful—at least, not when you’re trying to lose weight. The study, which was published in the journal Health Psychology, makes a strong case for sticking with the same