A virtual dialogue looked at the important issues surrounding food security pre- and post-Covid-19.Several challenges to food security were highlighted that further perpetuated inequality.Dialogue revealed access to food does not take place in a vacuum but rather in the politics around it.A virtual dialogue looking at the important issues surrounding food security pre- and post-Covid-19…
Two Mpumalanga women have been sentenced for opening false rape cases against their boyfriends. The court found that the women lied in their police statements.In one case, police found that the woman opened a rape case to source contraceptive pills from a local hospital.Two Mpumalanga women have been sentenced for opening false rape cases against their boyfriends…
Despite millennials being firmly in their family-building years, fewer 25- to 39-year-olds are having kids than ever, thanks to factors like the 2008 financial crisis, a lack of paid family leave or affordable child care, and a lot of anxiety about the state of the world. Now, they can list “living through a pandemic” among…
Three women have been violently killed in KwaZulu-Natal, two of who were murdered last week.One of the victims was a mother allegedly killed by her boyfriend in front of her children.Police are still trying to identify the bodies of two of the women.Three women have been killed by violent means in just weeks in KwaZulu-Natal,…
A #WomensLivesMatter picket was held in Cape Town to reflect the horror of the murder of women and children. It was held outside the headquarters of the Western Cape provincial police headquarters, where picketers held up posters.The police officer who accepted the memorandum told the solemn gathering they agreed with them and welcomed them as partners.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