He is spurning birthday presents to plant trees in Kenya, help protect African grey parrots
With income cut by 40%, operators fear the move back to level 2 of lockdown
Scientists in South Africa say there’s no evidence that the B.1.617 is worse than our local variant
Travels in Afrofuturism, Themba Mkhize and an exhibition focusing on Johannesburg’s informal recyclers take centre stage in our weekly events guide
Bheki Mseleku, or ‘Mr Bruce’ as he was known, roamed the globe but was at home in mantra mode
Travelling during the pandemic: Tala was rocked by mismanagement and then Covid-19, but proved to be resilient
Renewable energy would lower operating costs, while more and bigger plants would drive down infrastructure expenditure
People living near the refinery were subjected to two hours of dirty smoke from the refinery, the South Durban Environmental Alliance said on Saturday.
A Durban teenager will represent South Africa, when the code makes its debut at the Games in July
The Durban businessman’s family members will be arrested and will be back in the dock in May along with former KwaZulu-Natal cops.
Soup for the Sick is nourishing hundreds of people too ill to cook for themselves
Doctors, nurses, undertakers and civic activists want national and provincial interventions that address the reality of the dire situation in KwaZulu-Natal
Ten homeless men who turned a vacant lot into an organic vegetable garden are now reaping the rewards of their toil
Most of the wastewater produced worldwide receives no treatment and the nutrients in wastewater go to waste. Here’s how households can draw these nutrients from urine
Urban tourist magnets have nowhere to retreat to as sea levels rise with climate change
But high court rules in favour of the eThekwini municipality, as judge decries ‘political point-scoring’
The NPA is investigating eThekwini municipal manager Sipho Nzuza to determine whether he broke his bail conditions while back at work.
Desmond D’Sa, winner of the coveted Goldman Environmental Prize in 2014, tells Paddy Harper how being forcibly removed from his home at the age of 10 taught him to fight for his rights
The national energy regulator has been accused of not following its mandate to protect consumers by allowing above inflation electricity price hikes
Discovering the life-sustaining importance of contact with actual people: colleagues, customers, and deputy presidents
Five months of no income means things are touch and go for Durban’s harbour charter industry, but with help they hope to weather the storm
The Special Investigating Unit is probing contracts worth more than R5-billion, over corruption allegations regarding the procurement of goods and services needed for the government’s Covid-19 response
Firefighters have finally extinguished the fire at the New England Road landfill site in Pietermaritzburg, which had engulfed the KwaZulu-Natal capital in thick clouds of toxic smoke since it flared up more than a week ago
The years-long battle against the EnviroServ waste site at Shongweni has taken a new turn
Large groups attending funerals and people delaying being tested and treated because they fear dying in hospital has contributed to a spike in coronavirus infections in KZN
I now go to meetings barefoot and in my shorts. And it cuts what we pay for MPs to travel. We should keep it this way post-Covid
The recreational fishing industry, employing 94 000 people and generating R36-billion a year, pleads for permission to return to work before it collapses
But City authorities vow to stop the erection of new shacks during the national lockdown
South Africans have an uncaring stigmatising and marginalising culture and it keeps people on the fringes of society with diminished opportunities in life
In eThekwini a successful scheme is helping homeless people, but some say the lack of drugs to feed their addictions means it is better to stay away
Imagine if Zupta the Maniacal Giggler was president. Or Mbeki the Myopic. Beyond imagination would be Donald the Deadly
The Toolbox, founded and run by Nomzamo and Nosizwe Mji, offers community outreach yoga programmes, as well as regular studio classes