At least 5,7-million children in South Africa, roughly a third of those under 18, would have lost one or both parents from Aids by 2015.
Environmental activists Greenpeace on Wednesday invaded the property of a oil refinery in Durban to demand clean energy.
The Greenpeace ship, Esperanza, was expected to arrive at Durban harbour at 3pm on Sunday, Greenpeace representative Sara Holden said.
Former US president Jimmy Carter launched a house building project to provide 100 homes in Durban, calling on volunteers ”to get their hands dirty”.
The Shell oil company, far from being reborn as an
environmentally conscious energy firm, continues to pollute the environment, Durban environmental activists said on Tuesday.
SOUTH AFRICA was the only tourism destination in the world to have increased its market share after the terror attacks on the United States on September 11 last year, Tourism Minister Valli Moosa said at the weekend.
Zambian President Levy Mwanawasa said Anglo American had offered his government -million to offset its withdrawal from troubled Konkola Copper Mines (KCM).
It is too early to use Zimbabwe as a test case for the peer review mechanism proposed in the New Partnership for Africa’s Development.
Six people were rushed to a Richards Bay hospital in
KwaZulu-Natal after a Puma helicopter crashed on the deck of the Jolly Rubino trawler on Saturday morning, government officials said.
A bomb exploded at the Umtamvuna bridge near the Wild Coast Sun casino and hotel complex on the border between the Eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal on Thursday
The African Union (AU) will not merely be a continuation of the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) under a different name, acting Foreign Minister Zola Skweyiya said on Thursday.
The reshuffle of the provincial cabinet by the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) KwaZulu Natal Premier Lionel Mtshali was described this afternoon by the African National Congress (ANC) as ”unilateral”. The ANC loses two of its four posts in the cabinet to the DA.
The transporting of toxic chemicals around the world in ships should be scrapped, Earthlife Africa eThekwini Branch said Monday.
Africa needs to create some 100-million jobs in the next ten years to give work to new entrants into the labour market, says the International Labour Office.
The wife of Ladysmith Black Mambazo leader Joseph Shabalala was shot and killed and Shabalala himself wounded at his Durban home on Wednesday night, KwaZulu-Natal police reported.
Workers have been barred from entering a factory after more than 50 people were hospitalised for inhaling toxic fumes at a textile factory in northern Durban, the labour department said on Thursday.
The Gay and Lesbian Alliance will be among five interest groups set to ”welcome” African heads of state on their arrival in Durban from Sunday for the launch of the African Union next week.
The search for the remains of up to five people who drowned after their vehicle was swept away by heavy flood waters near Amatikulu, was continuing, the KwaZulu-Natal road traffic inspectorate said on Sunday.
The Durban Chamber of Commerce and Industry on Thursday suspended its membership of the South African Chamber of Business (Sacob), becoming the third major metropolitan affiliate to abandon the beleaguered national chamber.
South Africa’s Trade and Industry Minister Alec Erwin urged African business to forge closer ties and to take the conscious steps to help make African unity a reality.
An extraordinary session of the newly-launched African Union (AU) will be held in six months’ time, according to South African President Thabo Mbeki.
Playwright and songwriter Mbongeni Ngema — barred by a court order from marketing his controversial song amaNdiya — has been granted permission by another judge to promote the record, Durban news reports have said.
The African Union (AU) is now a reality, but the crisis in Zimbabwe casts a shadow over the festivities and will be a litmus test for the new AU.
KwaZulu-Natal has historically been one of South Africa’s more volatile provinces. With political tensions on the rise again, some analysts fear there may be potential for renewed conflict.
The ANC in Kwazulu-Natal has laid out a programme of action to consolidate and extend its support base if it takes over control of the provincial government after last week’s defection of five IFP MPs to the ANC.
Thousands of people started packing the Absa rugby stadium in Durban on Tuesday morning to attend an extravaganza to formally launch the new African Union.
Two of the University of Natal’s decision-making bodies are at loggerheads over the appointment of Professor William Makgoba as a vice-chancellor.
Developments in Zimbabwe are having an adverse effect on South Africa and causing it considerable problems, a government-business forum agreed this weekend.
A Tongaat man was shot dead and his son injured on their sugar cane plantation in northern KwaZulu-Natal on Saturday morning, police said.
DEFENCE Minister Mosiuoa Lekota has stated publicly that the government’s attempts to end the economic and political crisis in Zimbabwe had failed, his representative said on Saturday.