Gqeberha surgeon Dr Nico van Niekerk, who was earlier in 2023 found guilty of malpractice after one of his patients nearly died on his operating table, has lost his application for leave to appeal against the ruling.
When a Gqeberha company fumigated a Kabega Park home, leading to the horrific deaths of two children, it was allegedly not registered to work with the odourless yet deadly methyl bromide.
For at least four days, an elderly Thornhill farmer managed to cling on to life as he lay trapped under a heavy meat grinder that had fallen on top of him in a freak accident.