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
Titch Fraser. a resident of the Ocean View old aged home in Musgrave, Durban describes what he finds as the worst things during the lockdown
More than 300 complaints have been lodged against unscrupulous suppliers and business owners, who are now under the microscope for violating the Disaster Management Act
The danger’s invisible but terrifying. So the army’s rolling in, freedom’s rolling out, I’m rolling up and my overdraft is rolling over
Some refugee reception offices in South Africa have stopped accepting new asylum applications as the government enforces stricter measures to deal with the Covid-19 crisis
Time of the Writer is cancelled. Instead of hearing Jennifer Makumbi speak, we read her first novel
Monday. It’s the start of the working week, but I’m already exhausted, worn out. I haven’t had much of a weekend, with jobs on Friday and Saturday, so there’s been no real opportunity to catch my breath after the previous week’s news cycle. It’s amazing how quickly I got used to having a weekend after […]
Thabani Nyawose will challenge disgraced former Durban mayor Zandile Gumede while 17 other ANC regions also hold elective conferences
The health minister is positive that all those who came into contact with the infected Durban man will be identified and quarantined
Physical and psychological violence will continue unless we self-reflect on our apartheid scars
Perhaps a commission of inquiry can shine the spotlight on public transport in Durban, where bus and taxi passengers have to contend with fare increases and disrupted services
From his adventures with Steve Biko to his support for shack dwellers in KwaZulu-Natal, Bishop Emeritus Rubin Phillip has always walked the talk of radical Christianity
The president disclosed a development U-turn but the Special Economic Zones and China’s carbon intensive interests are likely to prevail
An apartheid law that dispossessed black women of the assets accrued during their marriages has finally been scrapped after a Pinetown pensioner, facing impoverishment, went to court
Dube TradeZone 1 is fully leased and tenanted; the exceptional demand for industrial space here has triggered phase two development
A national migration framework is necessary for the economic inclusion of migrants
Despite court action against eight murder-accused, the killings and extortion in the KwaZulu-Natal hostel have continued
The eThekwini council meeting to swear in new mayor Mxolisi Kaunda has been placed on ice
Governing party says all the redeployed EXCO members have handed in their resignations
Transport MEC Mxolisi Kaunda has taken over from the axed Zandile Gumede
A stateless woman in Durban is waging a court battle to receive identification documents so she can apply for birth certificates for her children
Ousted Durban mayor’s backers want her back as ANC mayoral candidate for 2021
The Durban mayor has been axed along with her EXCO and that of Pietermaritzburg
Following the new UN report on climate change and agricultural land use, how will climate change affect communities in informal urban areas
The postponement granted to allow prosecutors time to complete the investigation into the embattled eThekwini mayor and her co-accused
The governing party has deferred taking action on her fate by a week