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The South African
a day ago
- General
- The South African
School calendar: When do June-July holidays end?
Learners across South Africa will return to school on Tuesday, 22 July, as the third term of the 2025 academic year kicks off after the mid-year break. The Department of Basic Education has confirmed that Term 3 will run from 22 July to 3 October, forming part of the 200 school days scheduled this year. The school year began on 15 January and will end on 10 December. So far, the calendar has included two full terms, with learners enjoying a 27-day winter break since schools closed on 27 June. The fourth and final term will begin on 13 October and conclude just before the festive season school holidays. As learners prepare to return from the school holidays, concerns about municipal services in Gauteng schools remain in the spotlight. According to DA MPL Sergio Isa dos Santos, 536 schools in the province have faced water or electricity disconnections since January due to unpaid municipal accounts. 'More alarming is the confirmation that these schools collectively owe over R58 586 285,04, an amount the department admits it could not settle in the 2024/2025 financial year,' said dos Santos. Furthermore, he added that the department has promised to clear the debt by 30 June 2025, but 'no evidence has been provided to confirm this.' In response to mounting criticism, the Gauteng Department of Education said it had already disbursed the necessary funds to all affected schools. Also, the Spokesperson, Steve Mabona, confirmed that all designated schools received the money in June. 'The department wishes to confirm that it has provided the necessary funds to all schools for payment of their respective municipal billing accounts,' said Mabona. 'Once funds have been transferred, the schools and their respective school governing bodies assume full responsibility for ensuring that their municipal accounts are settled and paid on time.' Let us know by leaving a comment below, or send a WhatsApp to 060 011 021 1. Subscribe to The South African website's newsletters and follow us on WhatsApp, Facebook, X and Bluesky for the latest news.
Hindustan Times
06-07-2025
- Sport
- Hindustan Times
Dynamo rally late, edge San Diego FC in stoppage time
Ezequiel Ponce scored a pair of late goals, including the go-ahead score in the 10th minute of second-half stoppage time, as the visiting Houston Dynamo rallied to earn a 4-3 victory over San Diego FC on Saturday. Dynamo rally late, edge San Diego FC in stoppage time Ethan Bartlow sent a pass to Ponce, who delivered the game-winning strike with his left foot from the top of the penalty area to put the Dynamo up for good. Ponce had just earned a chance from the penalty spot late in the second half and scored on a penalty kick in the 87th minute to tie the score 3-3. That goal came after he was fouled by San Diego FC goalkeeper CJ dos Santos, who came away with a bloody nose. The injury delay for dos Santos created 17 minutes of second-half stoppage time. Houston goalkeeper Jonathan Bond made four saves to help push the club above the playoff line in the Western Conference. Milan Iloski, Luca Bombino and Onni Valakari scored goals for San Diego FC, who saw a four-match winning streak come to an end, while still extending their run of at least three goals to four consecutive matches. San Diego FC received one save from dos Santos. The expansion club remained in first place in the West while losing at home for just the second time. San Diego took a 1-0 lead in the 25th minute when Iloski scored from near the penalty spot. The Dynamo got even in the 36th minute when Ennali scored in his first career MLS start. Houston jumped in front 2-1 in the third minute of first-half stoppage time when Escobar scored on a blast from outside of the penalty area. San Diego tied it 2-2 in the 54th minute when Bombino scored on a left-footed swinging strike through Bond's arms. In the 67th minute, San Diego regained the lead 3-2 when Anders Dreyer's shot toward goal rebounded off the leg of Valakari and into the goal. Field Level Media This article was generated from an automated news agency feed without modifications to text.
New Straits Times
07-06-2025
- Sport
- New Straits Times
Dos Santos speaks the Harimau language
KUALA LUMPUR: Before instructions get lost in translation or the ball gets lost in transition, national footballer Endrick dos Santos is doing his part in helping the disparate Harimau Malaya team get going. While local TV commentators are still trying to get used to remembering or pronouncing the plethora of foreign-sounding names, fans must be wondering about communication among players and coaches on the field. In this aspect, the Brazil-born dos Santos believes he can help members of the newly assembled Malaysia team connect and click with one another. Fluent in English, Spanish, and increasingly proficient in Bahasa Malaysia, dos Santos plays a really important role. He is the go-to translator, the cultural bridge between East and West, the unifying voice in the rojak-like national team that aim to turn incoherence into cohesion. As Malaysia face Vietnam in a crucial Asian Cup qualifier on Tuesday, the national players, cobbled from all corners of the world, are brushing up on team work, learning and understanding each other's style and rhythm. Recently, the national team announced the inclusion of five more foreign-born heritage players: Rodrigo Holgado (Argentina), Imanol Machuca (Argentina), Facundo Garces (Argentina), Jon Irazabal (Spain) and Joao Figueiredo (Brazil), The naturalised dos Santos, who has donned Harimau Malaya colours since 2023. said: "It's a little difficult for them to communicate, but the others and I speak a little English, Spanish, and Malay. So, we try to help each other, to pass on to them whatever is important. "We try to communicate during every training session. I try to help my teammates adapt faster." But ultimately, fans around the world like to speak only one language — the language of winning.
Global News
27-05-2025
- Health
- Global News
Canadian-made test could help diagnose sepsis, researchers say
A team of Canadian researchers has created a test they say could quickly predict if a patient is going to develop sepsis, a life-threatening condition that happens when the immune system has a dysfunctional reaction to an infection and starts attacking the body's own organs and tissues. Sepsis kills thousands of people in Canada and close to 50 million people worldwide every year, said Dr. Claudia dos Santos, senior author of a research paper about the test published Tuesday in the journal Nature Communications. Treating sepsis quickly is crucial to survival, said dos Santos, who is a clinician-scientist and critical care physician at St. Michael's Hospital in Toronto. 'A one-hour delay in the treatment of sepsis can increase mortality by close to eight per cent,' she said, noting that acting within the first six hours is very important. Story continues below advertisement The problem is that there is currently no single test that can tell doctors which patients with infections — which can be anything from COVID-19 to a bacterial infection from a cut — will go on to develop sepsis, she said. That's because symptoms of sepsis are 'non-specific' and could also be symptoms of illness from the infection itself, including a fever, a high respiratory or heart rate, low blood pressure, low urine output, an abnormal white blood cell count and confusion. 2:11 Raising awareness of the world's #1 killer So physicians use their best clinical judgment, but it's based on a 'suspicion' of sepsis rather than a clear biological marker, dos Santos said. Get weekly health news Receive the latest medical news and health information delivered to you every Sunday. Sign up for weekly health newsletter Sign Up By providing your email address, you have read and agree to Global News' Terms and Conditions and Privacy Policy 'We do everything that we possibly can in the first six golden hours of sepsis and we cross our fingers and watch and see what happens. And the motivation behind this paper is there has to be a better way.' Story continues below advertisement Dos Santos and colleagues from the University of British Columbia and National Research Council Canada believe they've found it — a blood test that could predict a patient's likelihood of developing sepsis. Robert Hancock, director of UBC's centre for microbial diseases and immunity research, led a team that used artificial intelligence to find genes that stood out in patients who went on to develop sepsis — and found six that they called 'Sepset.' 'The idea is that in sepsis, each of these six genes is more highly expressed than it is when the patients aren't in sepsis,' said Hancock. 'Really critically, we see this phenomenon occurring before there is an obvious diagnosis of sepsis.' The researchers examined blood samples from 586 past patients and found higher levels of those six genes when patients' immune systems were starting to react abnormally. They found that when there was an increased presence of those genes, the patients went into sepsis within 24 hours. Testing patients to see if they have that six-gene 'signature' could allow physicians to take immediate action to treat sepsis early, including starting antibiotics if a bacterial infection is suspected, increasing fluids to help keep blood pressure stable and preparing to move the patient to intensive care if they need respiratory support or other critical care measures, dos Santos said. Story continues below advertisement Those actions can all happen while doctors pinpoint the initial infection and treat it with antibiotics, steroids, or other medications. 1:41 IWK health centre introducing new screening tool for sepsis in children The researchers also wanted to make the sepsis test portable, so it could be brought to a patient's bedside in the emergency department or used in remote communities to decide whether a patient needs to be transported to an urban hospital. National Research Council Canada developed a small device that takes less than 50 microlitres of blood — one or two drops — and extracts RNA to detect how much of the six signature genes are present. The device — called Powerblade — produced the results in less than three hours. When tested using 30 of the blood samples from previous patients, it was 92 per cent accurate in predicting who had developed sepsis, the researchers say. Story continues below advertisement An important limitation of the study is that the test has not yet been used with patients in real time, the paper says. Dos Santos said that's the next step, in the form of a clinical trial funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research. She's hoping they'll be able to start it this year. 'We're actually going to test the device, the prototype, in the real-world environment and demonstrate that we can do the whole thing for real,' she said. 'And then we need to find out, once we have those results, how does that change (patient) outcomes?'
Hamilton Spectator
27-05-2025
- Health
- Hamilton Spectator
Canadian researchers develop test they say can help diagnose life-threatening sepsis
TORONTO - A team of Canadian researchers has created a test they say could quickly predict if a patient is going to develop sepsis, a life-threatening condition that happens when the immune system has a dysfunctional reaction to an infection and starts attacking the body's own organs and tissues. Sepsis kills thousands of people in Canada and close to 50 million people worldwide every year, said Dr. Claudia dos Santos, senior author of a research paper about the test published Tuesday in the journal Nature Communications. Treating sepsis quickly is crucial to survival, said dos Santos, who is a clinician-scientist and critical care physician at St. Michael's Hospital in Toronto. 'A one-hour delay in the treatment of sepsis can increase mortality by close to eight per cent,' she said, noting that acting within the first six hours is very important. The problem is that there is currently no single test that can tell doctors which patients with infections — which can be anything from COVID-19 to a bacterial infection from a cut — will go on to develop sepsis, she said. That's because symptoms of sepsis are 'non-specific' and could also be symptoms of illness from the infection itself, including a fever, a high respiratory or heart rate, low blood pressure, low urine output, an abnormal white blood cell count and confusion. So physicians use their best clinical judgment, but it's based on a 'suspicion' of sepsis rather than a clear biological marker, dos Santos said. 'We do everything that we possibly can in the first six golden hours of sepsis and we cross our fingers and watch and see what happens. And the motivation behind this paper is there has to be a better way.' Dos Santos and colleagues from the University of British Columbia and National Research Council Canada believe they've found it — a blood test that could predict a patient's likelihood of developing sepsis. Robert Hancock, director of UBC's centre for microbial diseases and immunity research, led a team that used artificial intelligence to find genes that stood out in patients who went on to develop sepsis — and found six that they called 'Sepset.' 'The idea is that in sepsis, each of these six genes is more highly expressed than it is when the patients aren't in sepsis,' said Hancock. 'Really critically, we see this phenomenon occurring before there is an obvious diagnosis of sepsis.' The researchers examined blood samples from 586 past patients and found higher levels of those six genes when patients' immune systems were starting to react abnormally. They found that when there was an increased presence of those genes, the patients went into sepsis within 24 hours. Testing patients to see if they have that six-gene 'signature' could allow physicians to take immediate action to treat sepsis early, including starting antibiotics if a bacterial infection is suspected, increasing fluids to help keep blood pressure stable and preparing to move the patient to intensive care if they need respiratory support or other critical care measures, dos Santos said. Those actions can all happen while doctors pinpoint the initial infection and treat it with antibiotics, steroids, or other medications. The researchers also wanted to make the sepsis test portable, so it could be brought to a patient's bedside in the emergency department or used in remote communities to decide whether a patient needs to be transported to an urban hospital. National Research Council Canada developed a small device that takes less than 50 microlitres of blood — one or two drops — and extracts RNA to detect how much of the six signature genes are present. The device — called Powerblade — produced the results in less than three hours. When tested using 30 of the blood samples from previous patients, it was 92 per cent accurate in predicting who had developed sepsis, the researchers say. An important limitation of the study is that the test has not yet been used with patients in real time, the paper says. Dos Santos said that's the next step, in the form of a clinical trial funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research. She's hoping they'll be able to start it this year. 'We're actually going to test the device, the prototype, in the real-world environment and demonstrate that we can do the whole thing for real,' she said. 'And then we need to find out, once we have those results, how does that change (patient) outcomes?' This report by The Canadian Press was first published May 27, 2025. Canadian Press health coverage receives support through a partnership with the Canadian Medical Association. CP is solely responsible for this content.
