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Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi chides doctors for planning to strike and warns that the government cannot meet their 50%-70% increase demands.
The word’s largest of its kind, the Richards Bay Coal Terminal, has taken the initiative and involved a nearby rural community in a conservation project. The Dube community…
If you are one of those people who will only touch a fish if it is deep fried with a sprig of parsley on top, you would not be interested in KwaZulu-Natal’s sardine run, which…
With final drafting imminent, the controversy-haunted Communal Land Rights Bill remains mired in strong objections from both left and right and overshadowed by threats of violent…
It was monumental tactlessness or spite: the triumphant signing of the settlement agreement last weekend that brought an end to the controversial Mangethe land claim was held…
It sounds crass to call it a one-stop Aids shop, but that is exactly what it is. Amangwe village, north of Richard’s Bay, will become an integrated Aids care centre that looks…
Bed and breakfast establishments in South Africa have come a long way. In the old days the guest was given a converted cupboard or the room of a teenager who had just left home,…
The road to Ingwavuma goes through a dustbowl. The veld is parched and the trees are stunted. Piles of firewood lie on the side of the road, awaiting potential buyers on their…
Conservationists warn that immediate drastic action is necessary to save the indigenous Dukuduku forest, which borders the Greater St Lucia World Heritage Site. The once-pristine…
You can regard it as a bank with training wheels. It doesn’t even look like a bank. In some respects it isn’t. The "Village Bank" at Mfekayi in central Zululand is a community…
Even though you arrive on the scene hours after the highway robbery, your heart still quickens at the sight. It’s dawn, it’s cold and the air is thick with steam rising from car…
It’s not often, in the patrilineal Zulu hierarchy, that the succession of chieftainship goes to a woman. But the Mpungose royal family now has its first female inkosi, who has…
The translocation of young elephant bulls has taught scientists the value of the animals’ social structure. In 1994 rhinos were being found dead in the Pilanesberg Game Reserve…
Plans to turn a world heritage site into a Big Five game park could be shelved if a herd of elephants are unable to adjust to their new home
Schoolchildren in Khula Village in KwaZulu-Natal are learning how to protect and care for their environment
