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

Allowing liquidation of Tongaat Hulett will roll back the gains of the Sugar Value Chain Master Plan  

Flexibility in the sugar value chain is essential to ensure its long-term sustainability

Tongaat Hulett gets lifeline as court grants delay in liquidation bid

Tongaat Hulett has been granted a temporary reprieve from liquidation after the Durban High Court approved an adjournment, giving business rescue practitioners time to finalise a…

Intervention: Trade, Industry and Competition Minister Parks Tau, left, and his deputy Zuko Godlimpi believe a sustainable solution can be found to
prevent Tongaat Hulett from being liquidated, thus preventing a devastating ripple effect across the economy. Photos: Supplied

Tau leads drive to save Tongaat Hulett

The government says the ailing company is a crucial player in South Africa’s sugar value chain and its demise would have ‘far-reaching and devastating consequences’ for the sector

Former president Jacob Zuma. (Photo: Delwyn Verasamy/Mail & Guardian)

Jacob Zuma might testify in his daughter’s incitement case

Duduzile Zuma-Sambudla’s lawyer Dali Mpofu said her father would tell the court how he felt about being incarcerated for contempt of court in 2021 without undergoing a trial

Duduzile Zuma-Sambudla not entirely to blame for her followers’ actions during July 2021 unrest, court hears

The state’s first witness testified that about 103 people, who were part of a WhatsApp group, including some who followed Zuma-Sambudla on social media, conspired in the…

Durban attorney Ahmed Amod remains adamant that he has done nothing wrong regarding a dubious property scheme

Durban lawyer facing sequestration blames estate agent for his legal woes

Court battle plays out over millions to allegedly buy property in luxury city area

Former eThekwini mayor Zandile Gumede. Photo: Darren Stewart/Gallo Images

Zandile Gumede: Stop arresting people before concluding investigations

The former eThekwini mayor said the corruption case against her, which has been ongoing for seven years, has been financially draining

Businessman Thoshan Panday. (File photo)

Thoshan Panday granted R100 000 bail in tax fraud matter

The Umhlanga-based businessman will appear in the Durban High Court on 15 February on corruption and tax-related charges

The uMkhonto weSizwe Party wants Jacob Zuma back in office despite the Constitution barring this. (Photo by Fani Mahuntsi/Gallo Images via Getty Images)

Will MK Party test the waters in Valentine’s Day by-elections?

The uMkhonto weSizwe Party wants Jacob Zuma back in office despite the Constitution barring this

(eThekwini Municipality)

City lawyer says rates boycotters want to cripple Durban

But the Westville Ratepayers Association says eThekwini is unfairly targeting its members

Community members gather around a road block they set up in Phoenix, north of Durban, on July 15, 2021 to prevent looters from reaching the community. File photo by GUILLEM SARTORIO / AFP

Phoenix brothers get seven years in jail for July 2021 unrest assaults

The pair was also charged with the murder of Mondli Majola but was found not guilty

Political interference, corruption, skills shortages, supply chain inefficiencies and red tape are among the causes of the eThekwini municipality’s
water and sanitation woes that have led to a breakdown of the water treatment infrastructure.
(Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

Court hears that eThekwini illegally reopened beaches

Durban’s battle against broken sewage infrastructure and E coli is playing out in court after the city did not comply with a raft of environmental directives

(Photo: Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

Constitutional triumph on matrimonial property rights

Access to land ownership and property rights is inextricably linked to self-determination.

Businessman Thoshan Panday. (File photo)

Panday indictment for Fifa fraud becomes a family affair

The Durban businessman’s family members will be arrested and will be back in the dock in May along with former KwaZulu-Natal cops.

Aggrieved: DA eThekwini councillor Nicole Graham had her mic muted during a virtual sitting. The municipality blamed it on a software glitch

DA cries foul play over muted mic

But high court rules in favour of the eThekwini municipality, as judge decries ‘political point-scoring’

Ismail Haffejee and Sarah Lall with a portrait of their brother, Hoosen Haffejee.

Court date finally set for death in detention Haffejee inquest

Another apartheid-era death will be investigated after NPA pressured to finally act

Testing

Limited seating for State v Zuma

Members of the media, public and special interest groups will have to apply if they want to watch and report on the proceedings in person

The matter between the “tender entrepreneur” has been in court three times in as many weeks. Each time it has “stood down” for city manager Sipho Nzuza’s signature

Company sues municipality for millions over blacklisting

Pholobas Projects is suing eThekwini Municipality for millions after being ‘blacklisted’ at the behest of an alleged crooked official.

The report reveals that Ben Ngubane wrote a letter to Lynne Brown titled ‘Suspension of contact in any form whatsoever and/or commercial relationship with the Mail and Guardian, City Press and the Sunday Times’. (Gallo)

Ben Ngubane and wife in ‘sham’ documents court case

Liquidators appointed to wind up a mining company are accusing the couple of using ‘sham’ documents to lay claim to lucrative mining rights.

IPID to investigate Hawks boss Ntlemeza for perjury over Booysen affidavit

National Hawks boss Lieutenant General Berning Ntlemeza has been accused of perjury by suspended KwaZulu-Natal Hawks boss Major General Johan Booysen.