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 […]
The Sharks have announced that Springbok captain John Smit has signed a contract with the franchise for 2008 and 2009.
Diagnosing extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB) will be reduced from several weeks — and in some cases several months — to about a week.
KwaZulu-Natal’s environment minister on Tuesday threatened to prosecute residents in the north of the province who invaded the Ndumo Game Reserve.
Mauritius has rejected a request by ANC president Jacob Zuma to obtain documents used to convict Schabir Shaik, his former financial adviser.
The KwaZulu-Natal flood death toll rose to 16 on Monday after a decomposing body was found in the Umzinto River.
The Sharks had to rely on their mauling abilities and the finishing of flank Jacques Botes to overcome a valiant Boland Kavaliers 38-13.
A 42-year-old teacher was shot dead in a school driveway in Durban’s Umlazi suburb on Thursday, police said.
The Assmang company in Cato Ridge has been instructed to demolish a hostel on its premises because of risks the inhabitants face from manganese dust.
Artist Lolo Veleko speaks to Kwanele Sosibo about the meaning of Wonderland.
ANC Youth League president Julius Malema on Saturday again defended his statement that the league would kill for Jacob Zuma.
Rory Kockott emerged as the hero as he slotted four late penalties to hand the Sharks a thrilling 28-25 victory over Western Province.
Heavy rains on the KZN South Coast had subsided by Friday, allowing clean-up operations to begin. Ten people are known to have died in the deluge.
Four people were confirmed dead on the KwaZulu-Natal South Coast on Wednesday as a result of floods following heavy rainfall, rescue services said.
Durban International Airport was closed on Wednesday after an aircraft veered off the runway while landing.
One child was confirmed dead and five others were missing on Wednesday morning on the KwaZulu-Natal South Coast following a heavy downpour.
At least 20 people were rescued from roofs on the KwaZulu-Natal South Coast early on Wednesday morning after heavy downpours.
Retired judge Ramon Leon, the father of former DA leader Tony Leon, was attacked at his home in an upmarket Durban lodge.
The shooting of a Durban taxi boss’s brother left police admitting on Thursday they are no closer to solving a spate of at least 15 drive-by shootings.
The government has identified at least 27 cases where a syndicate has swindled more than R199-million from government departments in four provinces over the past three years — using cyber-spyware.
A recently paroled 35-year-old man was arrested in Durban for allegedly pimping children as young as eight, KwaZulu-Natal police said on Friday.
Ordinary citizens in KwaZulu-Natal who are growing increasingly tired of blue-light bullying on roads by politicians and other Ridiculously (self-) Important People appear to be taking matters into their own hands.
The chairperson of the Pretoria branch of the Red Cross has resigned in "disgust" at the branch’s failure to respond to the humanitarian crisis sparked by attacks on foreigners. Gillian Elson, who quit last Friday, has claimed ineptitude is rife at the Red Cross and has made claims of corruption and theft.
Cape Judge President John Hlophe has been accused of attempting to influence the Constitutional Court’s decision over search-and-seizure raids carried out by the Scorpions on properties of African National Congress president Jacob Zuma and French arms manufacturing giant Thint.
At least 30 people are believed to have died when their bus left the road and went over a cliff into a river near Cedarville in KwaZulu-Natal on Tuesday. Netcare 911 spokesperson Chris Botha said paramedics had told him that the bus went off an 80m embankment and landed upside-down in the river.
Fraud convict Schabir Shaik has been admitted to the critical care unit of Durban’s Inkosi Albert Luthuli Hospital, his brother, Mo, said on Monday. Mo said this was because of fears that his high blood pressure could lead to heart problems. chabir was first admitted to the hospital on April 1 and has been there ever since.
A motorcyclist punched a KwaZulu-Natal VIP driver on Saturday afternoon after the driver had crashed into the back of another car, seriously injuring its occupant. KwaZulu-Natal transport spokesperson Rajen Chinaboo said road traffic inspectorate officials at the scene reported that there ”had been some sort of altercation”.