A puppy that had been buried alive in a shallow grave with two black spears driven into its tiny body is recovering well.
South Africa’s Navi Pillay takes up the post of UN High Commissioner for Human Rights in September.
Five Durban siblings burnt to death when their shack caught alight in the early hours of Saturday morning, the eThekwini fire department said.
Every person, including Jacob Zuma, must be equal before the law, opposition leader Helen Zille said on Saturday, also calling for a crime charter.
One person was killed and several others injured when a group of gunmen opened fire on buses in Durban’s Inanda area early on Wednesday morning.
A policeman travelling in an unmarked police car was shot and killed in Durban’s Umlazi area, police said on Saturday.
The first edition of the Uprising Festival eight years ago was organised by a group of 15-year-old skater punks with one stage.
The CEO of the Pan South African Language Board told a court on Wednesday that children at a local school ”are taught what we call kitchen Zulu”.
Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson is full of praise for Orlando Pirates after his Red Devils managed a 1-0 win over a second-string Bucs.
A Congolese national displaced by xenophobic violence in Durban says he moved from a refugee site to a shelter, to sleeping on the steps of City Hall.
Proposed sites for the red-light district include the Mahatma Gandhi Road area and lower Pixley ka-Seme Street.
The Durban International Film Festival opens on July 23 with the South African premiere of the gritty local gangster flick, <i>Jerusalema</i>.
Niren Tolsi checks out this year’s Durban
International Film Festival, which has work dedicated to the recent xenophobic attacks across the country.
The trial of Durban businessman Prince Sifiso Zulu has been set down for August, the Durban Magistrate’s Court heard on Friday.
A professional hunter has been hired to track down a leopard on the KwaZulu-Natal North Coast, Ezemvelo KZN Wildlife said on Wednesday.
A fourth person has been arrested in connection with at least one of several drive-by shootings in Durban’s Chatsworth suburb, police said on Tuesday.
KwaZulu-Natal’s wandering hippo Nonkululeko was shot dead on Tuesday morning in Durban, Animal Rights Africa said.
Three men appeared in the Chatsworth Magistrate’s Court in Durban on a charge of murder linked to a spate of drive-by shootings in the area.
South Africa’s state enterprises are vital to the development of the country and its people’s skills, ANC president Jacob Zuma said on Friday.
Construction on Durban’s King Senzangakhona Stadium, which will host a 2010 World Cup semifinal, is running ahead of schedule.
Immigrants endure inhumane conditions, but would rather stay than return to their communities when the camps close on July 23.
A pregnant woman is beaten by guards as foreigners displaced by xenophobia stage a sit-in on the steps of Durban’s City Hall.
Durban businessman and socialite Prince Sifiso Zulu is no longer under police guard in hospital, police said on Wednesday.
Thousands march in Durban in protest against job losses caused by the electricity crisis and spiralling food, fuel and other prices.
Durban businesses on Wednesday reported that up to 80% of their workers failed to turn up ahead of the planned Cosatu protest.
Durban socialite Prince Sifiso Zulu, who is facing culpable homicide charges, apparently stabbed himself several times before jumping from a window.
South Africa has the world’s fourth-highest TB burden and the national response is in many cases a shambles.
This year’s Durban Fashion Week was more earthen glamour than razzle dazzle, writes Niren Tolsi.
Political parties are demanding answers after four prisoners, who were handcuffed and locked in leg irons, managed to make a bid for freedom.
“All the people inside wanted to eat him like they did. I don’t know how many men [raped him], but it was messy.” A formidable, broad woman, Ma Khambule* allows her eyes to water just a little as she recounts the pain of discovering that her 15-year-old son, Siya*, was allegedly raped “many, many times” […]
SA Aids patients in Durban are under siege from drug addicts who rob them of their antiretroviral treatment to get high.
The sardines have skipped Durban’s main beaches yet again, the Natal Sharks Board said on Wednesday. Chief executive Mike Anderson-Reade said not a single sardine had been seen on Durban’s coastline this year. He said there had been activity in the Eastern Cape waters on Tuesday but that there was nothing in KwaZulu-Natal. Early in […]