Winter food relief for Cape Town families battling the cold
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Cape Town - After the back-to-back cold fronts which brought flooding and bad weather across Cape Town, the Mustadafin Foundation has launched its winter food relief initiative, âWarm a body, Warm a heartâ.
The campaign aims at alleviate hunger and assist impoverished communities across the province during tough winter days.
The non-profit organisation, which has a presence in several provinces across the country and borders, currently works to provide and assist more than 27 000 people with warm nutritious meals daily.
Mustadafin Foundation director Ghairunisa Johnstone said the launch of the foundationâs winter campaign, âWarm a body, Warm a heart,â would go a long way in supporting impoverished communities lying on the outskirts of the province.
Eben Etzebeth (Ashley Western, Gallo Images, MB Media, Getty Images, file)
The State is planning to add another accused to the assault case in which two West Coast men alleged they were attacked by Springbok Eben Etzebeth during a brawl outside a Langebaan pub two years ago.
Emile Etzebeth, the professional rugby player’s cousin, recently appeared in the Hopefield Magistrate’s Court where the two cases of assault with intent to inflict grievous bodily harm against him were postponed to 6 August.
National Prosecuting Authority provincial spokesperson Eric Ntabazalila confirmed that the State was busy with plans to add another accused to the charge sheet .
Avian flu detected on four poultry farms in the Western Cape
By Given Majola
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CAPE TOWN - WESTERN Cape Agriculture MEC Ivan Meyer announced yesterday that four poultry farms near Worcester, Malmesbury and Hopefield had been detected as infected with the avian influenza virus.
Two farms have been confirmed to have H5 highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI), though laboratory confirmation was still pending for the other two farms.
Meyer said that the relationship to the viruses present in the north of the country was unconfirmed.
The total number of birds that have been culled or have died from HPAI totalled approximately 134 000.
These cases are in addition to five outbreaks in Gauteng and North West.
It is unclear whether the Western Cape strain is the same as those at the farms in other provinces.
Four outbreaks of avian flu have been recorded in the Western Cape.
Western Cape Agriculture MEC Ivan Meyer said the infected farms are near Worcester, Malmesbury and Hopefield. Two farms have been confirmed to have H5 highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI), though laboratory confirmation is still pending for the other two farms, Meyer said.
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These are in addition to the four outbreaks in Gauteng and one in North West.