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Ithala’s provisional liquidation may result in the closure of 257 000 depositors’ accounts while legal proceedings are under way.  (Photo: Ithala)

Ithala liquidation: Government guarantees depositors’ funds

The bank said the closure threatens 400 jobs

Newcastle reels as ArcelorMittal SA’s steel factory closure looms

Thousands of jobs are on the line, and the ripple effects are expected to devastate livelihoods, businesses and the town’s broader economy

Donald Trump gestures, next to former US First Lady Melania Trump and their son Barron Trump during an election night event at the West Palm Beach Convention Centre in West Palm Beach, Florida, early on November 6, 2024. (Photo by Jim WATSON / AFP)

Ramaphosa welcomes Trump’s return to presidency, eyes closer SA-US collaboration

Trump has been congratulated by various world leaders, with the Taliban government saying it hoped for a fresh start in relations between Afghanistan and the US

KwaZulu-Natal premier Thami Ntuli.  Photo: Mbuso Kunene

18 KZN councillors killed since 2021

Data collected from KZN municipalities since November 2021 shows that out of 40 councillors who died, 18 were assassinated

Businessman Thoshan Panday. (File photo)

State opposes relaxing Thoshan Panday’s bail conditions for overseas holiday

Panday’s 25-year-old son, who is employed by a bank, is allegedly going to pay for the trip

South Africa’s largest steel maker has warned that without urgent government protection, it will be a matter of time before local production is no longer viable. (David Harrison/M&G)

Closure of steel operations a devastating blow, as 3500 jobs at risk

‘You cannot make conditions impossible to trade in and then be surprised when businesses fail’

The infamous Excelsior Court building in Durban. Photo supplied

DA says squalid state-owned buildings in KZN are ‘havens of vice’

Stripped, hijacked and reeking of human waste, the buildings are not fit for human habitation

Mzimuni Ngiba

Jailed ANC councillor accused of killing predecessor is finally fired

Mzimuni Ngiba, however, was axed for missing council meetings, not because of the murder charge he is facing

Bellarmine Chatunga Mugabe, the late former Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe’s son, was arrested for attempted murder on Thursday after a shooting at his Hyde Park residence

Taxi-linked murder spree rages on in KwaZulu-Natal

Five killed in three separate drive-by shootings on Thursday – two ‘hits’ in Tongaat and one in Amanzimtoti

Zandile Myeni as the city’s new deputy mayor. Photo: Supplied

ANC in eThekwini appoints NFP and EFF members in key portfolios

Governing party says it agreed on the reconfiguration of the municipal committees to sharpen and strengthen its service delivery machinery