Despite court action against eight murder-accused, the killings and extortion in the KwaZulu-Natal hostel have continued

According to SAPS, at around 9pm, Xolo and Mbuthuma were attacked in the old section of the hostel

It failed to recommend that people implicated in the KwaZulu-Natal killings face prosecution

During its more than 12 months of hearings, the Commission heard claims of South African Police Service (SAPS) complicity

Hopes of an immediate trial have been dashed as the accused’s lawyer wins time to secure counsel

The deaths come a week before eight men allegedly involved in the murder of residents are set to make a court appearance

The entrenchment and normalisation of assassinations are a threat to democracy

Liquor stores will be under surveillance as police attribute hostel murders to arguments and alcohol

Several suspects, one of them a police officer, are expected to appear in the Durban Magistrate’s Court on Monday

The death toll at the hostel is now believed to be 106 and even when arrests have been made, there have been no convictions

The premier has said that he’ll be ‘taking into consideration all the legal obligations that apply to the release of the report’

KwaZulu-Natal’s ANC doesn’t seem to have got the message that No 1 is no longer

​Police have arrested five men in what appears to be a major breakthrough into the murders that have taken place at Durban’s Glebelands hostel

Protection is vital after a tip-off that those testifying at the commission on killings in KwaZulu-Natal may also be killed

Glebelands Hostel – an apartheid-era relic – has been engulfed in a wave of violence the police have proved unable or unwilling to address.

The number of local politicians being killed, ostensibly for their positions is growing, writes Athandiwe Saba.

At least 60 people have died in the last two years as violence continues in the Durban hostels, leading for calls for the UN to intervene.