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
But eThekwini metro says it has approved plans for housing to be built on the environmentally sensitive ‘green belt’
South Africa’s service delivery woes have attracted all manner of violence. As water becomes more scarce, things will get worse
A severe storm system left a trail of destruction in eThekwini, KwaDukuza and Ndwedwe
Tenants in Durban blocks want the court to give them the right to buy their homes
Now turned into a museum, the house where he lived in the eastern town of Phoenix and which also housed his newspaper is falling into disrepair
Police Minister Bheki Cele and his team of officers appear to be better at arresting radials than criminals
Attendances rose as lockdown was eased and then lifted — but some people were lured by glamorous online churches abroad
The eThekwini mayor says there were incidents of excessive use of force towards Africans at roadblocks controlled by residents
Instigators took to social media to stoke fears among police officers, the police minister told the South African Human Rights Commission hearings on Monday
The minister again accused the commissioner of being missing in action when the violence raged in KwaZulu-Natal
The police minister told the Human Rights Commission the president instructed him to avoid violence in response to Jacob Zuma’s pending arrest as far as legally possible
Indian residents deny ‘massacre’ label; black survivors claim violence and orchestration
On day three of the SAHRC hearings into the July unrest, victim Ntethelelo Mkhize disputes the testimony of activist Sham Maharaj
On day two of the HRC’s hearings into the violent unrest of July, a witness was accused of minimising the anguish of the families of those murdered to protect the image of Indian…
As the three big parties make their last attempts to woo voters in this year’s local government elections, we look back at the promises in their manifestos
An examination of the language the party uses shows that it is echoing right-wing voices the world over in its insistence that those who point out its racism are, in fact, the…
Paddy Harper finally got his second Covid-19 jab, but he feels that it’s pity there’s no vaccine for stupidity — or arrogance
The party will remove the ‘racially inciting’ posters and ‘discipline’ its KwaZulu-Natal chairperson
It would be refreshing if South Africans encountered political parties that actually walked the talk of embracing the ideals of nonracialism
