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Ghost towns: The mills in Tongaat, Maidstone and Felixton have fallen silent. Photo: Delwyn Verasamy
BABU PARTABSING BODASING

How sugar’s rise and collapse shaped KZN

Tongaat Hulett, once the pride of the sugar belt and a 134-year-old industrial icon, has collapsed under the weight of mismanagement, scandal and shifting global markets

  • Marlan Padayachee
7 min read
A member of the Durban Metro Police looks at a looted retail store in central Durban, on July 11, 2021. – Several shops are damaged and cars burnt in Durban, following a night of violence. Police are on the scene trying to control further protests. It is unclear if this is linked to sporadic protests following the incarceration of former president Jacob Zuma. (Photo by – / AFP)
ZUMAUNREST

All public transport in KZN stops as looting spreads

More than 120 people have already been arrested for looting and public violence in the province

  • Paddy Harper
2 min read
Cool-Ache: “I think to some extent you have to be sad to write sad stories … like a general disposition towards gloominess.” – Pravasan Pillay. Photo: Rogan Ward
CHATSWORTH

Austere beauty of Chatsworth

The short stories, in precise detail, down to Durban Indian English, capture the township

  • Niren Tolsi
7 min read
Guiding light: A crowd watches the passing of the Kwibuka Flame of Remembrance in Kigali
CHATSWORTH

Why migrants don’t want to leave the camps

There have been very limited government-led reintegration efforts after the xenophobic violence, writes Emi Maclean from Médecins Sans Frontières.

  • Sharon Ekambaram
7 min read
CHATSWORTH

Three in court for Durban drive-by shootings

Three men appeared in the Chatsworth Magistrate’s Court in Durban on a charge of murder linked to a spate of drive-by shootings in the area.

  • Staff Reporter
1 min read