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.
The Organisation of African Unity’s Council of Ministers began meeting in Durban on Sunday night in preparation for the launch of the African Union, which will replace the 53-member OAU on July 9.
South Africa’s first Beer Route was launched on Wednesday by the KwaZulu-Natal tourism department in conjunction with five independent micro breweries.
Democratic Alliance leader Tony Leon on Tuesday strongly criticised the proposed new Mineral and Petroleum Resources Development Bill, saying it undermined the Mbeki administration’s commitment to an open economy in a globalised environment.
Deputy President Jacob Zuma on Friday night condemned ”bully states” that attempted to coerce other countries and even international organisations into doing their bidding.
Home Affairs Minister Mangosuthu Buthelezi gave his support on Friday to a campaign promoting abstinence from sex, presiding over a ceremony where abstaining youngsters were rewarded for their self-discipline.
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has declared a trade war on one of the world’s leading coffee producers, Nestle.
African nations on Tuesday signalled their intention to deal decisively with illegitimate regimes on the continent by barring Madagascar from the soon-to-be-launched African Union.
Two of the architects of an ambitious rescue plan for Africa will take centre at the World Economic Forum in Durban.
MORE weapons, not fewer, were needed to fight crime and political instability in South Africa and Africa, Defence Minister Mosiuoa Lekota told a meeting of church leaders in Durban on Friday, the SABC reported.
The ashes of a South African man considered to be the ”last hero of the Titanic” will be scattered off the country’s east coast after his death last month at age 104, a relative said Thursday.
The Durban-based Sunni Ulama Council of South Africa has rejected the views of a Saudi Grand Mufti that the celebration of the birthday of the Prophet Mohammed was heresy as it mimicked Christmas.