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A biotech research firm has developed a tool that can measure your blood glucose levels without a finger prick.

This comes after six contracts were awarded at significantly inflated prices amounting to R172,516.

City crews in San Diego will try to squeeze in as many repairs as possible while the sun is out. Because lately, they say mother nature has made it very difficult for them to get the job done.

The Pretoria magistrate’s court on Monday granted R3,000 bail each to 23 accused in a fraud, theft and corruption case in connection with police service contracts for vehicle repairs.

Kishene Chetty, the Pretoria businessperson accused of running a vast family racket while capturing the police’s supply chain management unit, has been arrested again. He is in court this time for dodgy contracts to service and repair police vehicles at inflated prices, along with 22 co-accus...

Men said to be operatives of two warring factions operating in Glendevon, St. James, namely the Gym Team and 1452, which sparked back-to-back murders in the community last week are now in police custody. The alleged perpetrator of one of the killings is among those in custody following the seizure of an illegal firearm during targeted intervention by the police. In the latest incident, four persons, including a one year-old toddler, were attacked and shot and wounded in a section of the communi...

Perched on a ladder, Ulysses “Bones” Edwards reached for another can of spray paint, adding a few deft strokes to the mural of Andrew Brown Jr that was slowly starting to take shape on the side of the house where Brown lived in Elizabeth City, North Carolina, a stone’s throw from where he was killed by law enforcement last week. A crowd of marchers passed Edwards as he worked on Thursday. Dozens also gathered over the weekend, ahead of Brown’s...

Andrew Brown killing: protesters say police will ‘push town into riot mode’ Community and advocates in Elizabeth City, North Carolina, say police escalating peaceful protests and ‘trying to antagonize city’ A protester faces police in riot gear as they force people off a street in Elizabeth City, North Carolina, on 28 April 2021. Photograph: Joe Raedle/Getty Images A protester faces police in riot gear as they force people off a street in Elizabeth City, North Carolina, on ...

VAntage Point Remembering Former VA Secretary Jesse Brown This February, while the nation celebrates Black History Month, VA’s Homeless Programs Office (HPO) recognizes that our history of accomplishments preventing and ending Veteran homelessness is built on the work of trailblazing Black men and women. Among these notable individuals is Jesse Brown, a decorated disabled Vietnam Veteran who, in 1993, became the first African American Secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs. Secretary...