A local rock musician has launched a crowdfunding campaign to help a small-town businessman who makes unique guitar-shaped braai grids. Bert Lintvelt of Ladismith has already employed two jobless people to help him produce the grids. These grids have been sold all over the world - even Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones owns one. Ladismith is a…
A puff adder, spotted by accident underneath a pile of leaves, tried to safeguard itself before being removed by seasoned KwaZulu-Natal snake catcher Nick Evans.Evans said it is more likely to see these species in the bushy areas of outer west Durban, where the 60cm reptile was found. Evans appealed to the public to stay away…
The wife of murdered Cape Town detective Lieutenant Colonel Charl Kinnear says her husband lived for his job. Nicolette Kinnear said the family had received "a lot of support" from chaplains, counsellors and other social services.She said his work was his passion and that he lived for working for the community, and for the police.The…
44m ago Subscribers can listen to this article Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden said on Friday that "there is no doubt" that the next US Supreme Court justice should be chosen by the winner of the election."There is no doubt - let me be clear - that the voters should pick the president and the…
A man standing on a pavement narrowly escaped injury after a taxi collided with a bus and car in Cape Town.In CCTV footage, the taxi is seen changing lanes into oncoming traffic and clipping a MyCiTi bus, but the taxi driver does not stop. The taxi then hits a car reversing and narrowly misses a man…
(Oona Zenda/KFF Health News) As Grace Griffin and her husband were welcoming their long-awaited baby — a daughter — Griffin found herself worried about looming medical bills and unsure if their family could pay for the care they needed. “This whole experience has me wondering (keeping me up at night, actually): Can we ever afford
LYON, France — Halving the dose of antenatal betamethasone given to prevent severe respiratory distress syndrome (RDS) in infants does not appear to affect later intelligence quotient (IQ) scores or other measures of neurodevelopment, suggests a follow-up study of a randomized trial. However, it is unclear from the present data, presented at the Congress of
After years of searching for affordable health insurance, Trey Wright discovered Georgia Pathways to Coverage. The state’s limited Medicaid expansion program allowed the 27-year-old living in the rural city of Jesup in southeastern Georgia to finally visit a primary care doctor regularly. It also covered weekly shots to manage an array of allergies, saving him