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A bitter pill to swallow
Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi chides doctors for planning to strike and warns that the government cannot meet their 50%-70% increase demands.
Coal starts tourism project
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…
Fishy frenzy in KwaZulu-Natal
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…
Tensions rise over land rights Bill
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…
Call for peace in the valley
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…
A holistic approach to Aids care
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…
A boost for township B&Bs
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,…
Firewood at a price
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…
Time runs out for Dukuduku
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…
New era dawns for ‘village’ banks
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…
Highway robbery
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…
Inroads into patriarchy
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…
Operation father figure
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…
A jumbo task for St Lucia
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
Saving the sacred forest
Schoolchildren in Khula Village in KwaZulu-Natal are learning how to protect and care for their environment