The 28th of April each year marks the World Day for Health and Safety at Work. I was alerted to this by my friends from ER24 who have to attend to many of the victims from accidents at the w... Read more
Five people have died in a shack fire in the informal settlement of Lwandle, in Somerset West, outside Cape Town. A blaze gutted two shacks killing an entire family, including three children... Read more
Tragic news from the road this evening after a steel gate at a residence in East Cliffe south of Johannesburg fell on top of a seven year old boy while he was trying to open the gate to allo... Read more
Italian chocolate tycoon Pietro Ferrero, joint chief executive of the Ferrero group which owns Nutella and Ferrero Rocher, has died in an accident in South Africa, a spokesperson for the gro... Read more
Cape Town Fire Services have warned that late winter rains have resulted in drier than usual vegetation which could lead to runaway veld fires. Cape Town’s winter rains usually fall during l... Read more
Heavy flooding in Namibia has killed at least 65 people and displaced 60 000, damaging crops and infrastructure in the southwest African state, a UN report said on Friday. “Sustained h... Read more
Nitrogen is not only found in tyres – but also used to contain the nuclear disaster in Japan. Workers at Japan’s stricken nuclear plant on Thursday pumped nitrogen gas into a cri... Read more
As many are aware some ER24 staff joined Rescue SA to assist the victims in Japan after a Tsunami struck the country on March 11. ER24 constantly received updates while the team were in Japa... Read more
A fire has left 25 people homeless in Masiphumelele, Fish Hoek, the City of Cape Town said on Monday. Spokesperson Wilfred Solomons-Johannes said the fire began in the informal settlement at... Read more
An Australian doctor was killed when she and a group of friends were struck by lightning near Haenertsburg, Limpopo last week. Lynne Dowd, her husband Bruce, another Australian couple Colin... Read more