4+ day, 20+ hour ago  (215+ words) Australia has detected its first suspected mainland case of H5 N1 bird flu in a remote part of the country's southwest, authorities said on Friday. A migratory sea bird known as a brown skua, found in Western Australia's Cape Le Grand National…...

5+ day, 1+ hour ago  (996+ words) The Gonubie tidal pool has been contaminated with sewage for years " without any public warnings being issued, according to residents. But the Buffalo City Metro has denied this, with an official asserting that "there is currently no sewage being discharged…...

1+ week, 3+ hour ago  (744+ words) A promise made to his visually impaired grandmother when he was 11 has taken a young Eastern Cape innovator from a backroom shack in Nxamkwana to the brink of the global technology stage. At 23, Elihle Amahle Stali has been shortlisted among…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (670+ words) Yet another Eastern Cape child has drowned in a pit latrine toilet. This time, a family in Tsolo is mourning the loss of their one-year-old girl, Kungentando Yena, who was found floating inside a pit latrine at her creche recently....

1+ week, 6+ day ago  (515+ words) Residents in the Makana municipality have been failed at every level, with a damning new report by the SA Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) declaring the area's ongoing water and sanitation crisis a violation of fundamental constitutional rights. After more than…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago  (691+ words) Kei Mouth resident Cindy Smith has dedicated her life to rescuing and rehabilitating vulnerable vervet monkeys, giving orphaned, abandoned and injured animals a second chance in the wild. Through the Debracy Primate Foundation EC, Smith has helped rescue about 20 monkeys…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago  (541+ words) When Jane Simmonds stood on a stage in Paris a few weeks ago to accept the Well-being Programmes Award at the Women Changing the World Awards, she wasn't thinking about the glamour of the occasion. Instead, her mind was on…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago  (717+ words) After the first confirmation of the flesh-eating parasite screwworm on a US farm in decades, federal and state officials have fanned out in South Texas, where a calf was found infested this week. US agriculture secretary Brooke Rollins said on…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago  (549+ words) Health & Science Correspondent The alleged transgression occurred between July 2019 and June 2024, during the height of the Covid-19 pandemic when demand for acute renal dialysis surged among patients admitted to hospital. The Competition Commission said in a statement on Wednesday that…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago  (1054+ words) Global health authorities are racing to identify medical options to help contain an Ebola outbreak in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) linked to the Bundibugyo strain of the virus. Unlike for the more common Zaire strain, there…...