Late activist Fatima Meer’s house should be declared a national heritage site, Winnie Madikizela-Mandela said on Saturday.
ANC stalwart Fatima Meer died in hospital on Friday at 81. Meer built a reputation as a prolific academic and an powerful advocate of gender equality.
What to do, where to go and what to see this week.
To help welcome guests to the Soccer World Cup, Durban has begun teaching street vendors foreign languages.
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/ 21 February 2010
The remains of ANC stalwart Johnny Makhathini were welcomed by hundreds of people at the Durban International Airport on Saturday night.
A public artwork planned for Durban at a reported cost of R1,5-million has been scuppered, allegedly because the trio of elephants are an IFP symbol.
Niren Tolsi joins Hindu devotees for kavady, the yearly ritual of self-mutilation to curry favour with the deity Muruga.
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/ 21 January 2010
Our top art and entertainment picks for this week and beyond
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/ 19 January 2010
Just over 49 000 people were arrested in KwaZulu-Natal during the festive season for crimes including rape, murder and armed robbery.
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/ 30 December 2009
Graeme Swann and Stuart Broad bowled SA out for 133 as England completed victory by an innings and 98 runs on the fifth day of the second Test.
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/ 29 December 2009
Ian Bell scored a century for England as the South African attack toiled on a breezy, overcast day on the fourth day of the second Castle Lager Test.
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/ 29 December 2009
Developers of unauthorised holiday resorts in KwaZulu-Natal’s World Heritage Site — the iSimangaliso Wetlands Park — have refused to demolish them.
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/ 28 December 2009
The sun shone on England on the third day of the second Test against South Africa at Kingsmead, with the visitors ending the day in a strong position.
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/ 28 December 2009
SA put on a much improved bowling performance on the third morning of the second Test at Kingsmead, restricting England to the addition on 87 runs.
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/ 27 December 2009
A superb batting performance by England brought the visitors back on top on the second day of the second Castle Lager Test at Kingsmead.
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/ 27 December 2009
England set off at a great pace in reply to South Africa’s first innings total of 343 on the second afternoon of the second Castle Lager Test.
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/ 26 December 2009
Graeme Smith and Jacques Kallis put on 156 runs for the third wicket, as SA dominated much of the first day of the second Test at Kingsmead.
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/ 29 November 2009
The recent storm in KwaZulu-Natal had affected 1 256 people, the provincial department of local government said on Saturday afternoon.
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/ 16 November 2009
A woman who was flung 60m from a bridge during a hijacking in Durban, was recuperating in hospital, a news report said on Monday.
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/ 12 November 2009
A Zimbabwean on Thursday told the Durban Regional Court how foreigners were forced to jump from a high-rise building.
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/ 18 October 2009
In a major legal victory for poor people’s rights to housing and shelter, the Constitutional Court this week struck down the KwaZulu-Natal Slums Act.
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/ 12 October 2009
John Smit back at hooker? That could be the surprise the Sharks come up with for Saturday’s Currie Cup semifinal against the Free State Cheetahs.
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/ 11 October 2009
The hatchet job on Durban’s Kennedy Road informal settlement continued this week with an alleged "healing process" by the KwaZulu-Natal government.
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/ 10 October 2009
KwaZulu-Natal economic development and tourism minister Mike Mabuyakhulu on Friday defended his R100 000 monthly mileage claims.
A man who raped and strangled his girlfriend’s two-year-old girl was given two life sentences by the Durban High Court on Wednesday.
The SA Airlink pilot whose plane crash-landed in Merebank, south of Durban, on September 24 died in hospital on Wednesday.
Shackdwellers describe the terror of coming under siege during violence that left two dead and a KZN community riven. Niren Tolsi reports.
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/ 24 September 2009
The plane that crashed in Merebank — south of Durban on Thursday — declared an emergency shortly after take-off, carrier Airlink said.
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/ 9 September 2009
Taxis drivers who play sound systems too loudly in Durban will soon face the music, the city said on Wednesday.
Niuren Tolsi bumped into Schabi Shaik just after midnight at a 24-hour petrol station shop near his home in Morningside two weeks ago.
So fraud convict Schabir Shaik was spotted driving around Durban with his black BMW. So what?
Traders in Durban’s Warwick Triangle Early Morning Market will continue trading into August amid bureaucratic bungling.