The Maha Cafe in Durban offers a seasonal menu which features the best that local has to offer
System to be piloted at Durban’s King Shaka airport allows travellers to pre-declare goods on an online portal
It took threats of legal action, ‘forced’ negotiations and a series of angry protests to finally get a temporary solution
A total blackout is unlikely, but South Africa’s municipalities say they won’t be caught off guard
Striking collage using found fabrics and a familiar scene shows how ‘history repeats itself’ and that we can learn from it and overcome its brutal lessons
The award-winning eatery, which offers fine wines and food, is on stilts at Durban’s harbour
The build will include solar power, grey water recycling, rainwater harvesting and a waste-to-energy facility
Decades later, Mbongeni Ngema’s work still has life lessons for South Africans in these dark days for our democracy
‘Let Me Tell You About Red’, artist Mary Sibande’s third instalment in the tricolour Sophie series, is on in Durban
The Durban July is back, which means the glamour and high fashion are back too.
It is a marginal improvement, according to the study, but while the country is progressively more peaceful, it is tarnished with violent outbreaks of crime and protests
Florida Road – where you’re immersed in all things that celebrate cultural craft – comes to KwaZulu-Natal for the first Arts Bar Festival.
A candid story about love; and how human beings’ shortcomings get in the way
Durban and the eThekwini region was in decline – fuelled by corruption and political killings – before the deadly floods sank it
Some residents have accused the South African National Defence Force of taking too long to respond with recovery assistance
The eThekwini metro’s climate action plan lacks urgency and the state remains wedded to fossil fuels, mining, high-energy refining and smelting
Bongamusa Manqele was shot from behind while running from the police
In creating her photo series, ‘Brown on Brown: The Colourism Project’, Ravi Naidoo realised colourism affects how every Indian person thinks about themselves
Past climate conditions that led to intense tropical cyclones battering KwaZulu-Natal’s coast are similar to the ones projected now under global warming
When one state of disaster ends, we’ll enter the other, familiar one, where service failure is the endemic pandemic.
The beleaguered national carrier resumed flights between Johannesburg and Cape Town last September after exiting business rescue
ANC president Cyril Ramaphosa is understood to have been part of talks that swung the agreement, which is a ‘governance plan’ rather than a coalition
A marine conservation funding facility wants carbon trading to finance restoration and protection of the oceans and marine biodiversity
Burning a city and asking its residents to vote for you appears to have been a bit of a stretch for Durban’s electorate
Garrith Jamieson and his paramedic colleagues were on high alert days before a scorching heatwave struck Durban earlier this month. With the mercury expected to soar to 40°C and above, they knew the signs of heat stress to look out for in their patients: fatigue, fainting, headaches, heat cramps and heatstroke, among others. “It was […]
Agrochemical producer UPL said it has paid R250-million in chemical spill clean-up
One other man was shot dead and two others were rushed to hospital with gunshot wounds
Paddy Harper can choose not to swim in Durban’s dirty sea but he has little choice about swimming with the political sharks
Sewage spillages are often result of no maintenance and the UPL chemical factory did not have environmental authorisation
‘What I like about Glenwood, the vibe is good. People don’t turn their noses up. The people like to try Russian and Korean food.’
Scientists have been sent to handle the fallout from the warehouse fire, which stored about 1 600 hazardous materials that can contaminate the air, sea and rivers
A Durban depot container with 1.5-million rounds of ammunition may have been targeted, as others in the vicinity were left untouched, say security sources