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

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

(Graphic: John McCann/M&G)

The mayor-go-round must stop

The government of national unity is working at a national level, but the same cannot be said about municipal coalition governments

Many roads in Stanger and surrounding areas were damaged in the floods. Photo: Supplied

Durban again hammered by heavy rain, flooding

A severe storm system left a trail of destruction in eThekwini, KwaDukuza and Ndwedwe

The grassless sports field and broken rugby posts at Glenmore’s once-thriving sports grounds.

Local officials destroy the fields of  dreams with callous disregard

​When people start protesting, it is usually the frustrated action of those who have been trying to get their local government to be accountable

Moerane Commission report tabled in KZN legislature (Photo Archive)

ANC ‘is in a civil war’, former mayor tells Moerane Commission

Siyanda Mhlongo suggested that political killings were a direct result of ANC politics, adding that the party was "currently in a civil war".

A crowd protesting against Pravin Gordhan’s address at a fundraiser for the Concerned Citizen’s Group in KwaDukuza clashed violently with the audience.

The twisted politics of KwaDukuza

The small town’s realities reflect the problems besetting the ANC and South African society

Voting in the KwaMashu area proceeded normally.

ANC volunteer shooting shows KZN violence far from resolved

The killing of Winnie "Nu" Mhlongo on her 30th birthday in Kwadukuza has underscored the province’s political intolerance and its resultant violence.

Two other women

Two KZN cops shot and killed

Three men allegeldy opened fire on police officers who had stopped along a road in KwaDukuza to investigate a suspicious vehicle.

Zuma hailed at Shaka Day celebrations

ANC president Jacob Zuma received a rapturous welcome when he arrived at the annual King Shaka Day celebrations in KwaDukuza on Wednesday.

Detained hijacker turns out to be police officer

A hijacker nabbed following a shootout with police on the KwaZulu-Natal North Coast has turned out to be a police officer, police said on Monday.

Taxi war simmers in KwaZulu-Natal

Ten people were arrested and about 20 taxis impounded after the vehicles blocked the main road in Stanger, KwaZulu-Natal, on Friday afternoon, police reported. This was after…