The investigation into multimillion-rand kickbacks in the KwaZulu-Natal Department of Housing is about to widen after the arrest in the second week of March of the province’s housing CEO. Police say it is likely that the asset forfeiture unit could get involved in the investigation.
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/ 25 February 2003
A Durban herbalist and an employee were arrested on Monday for alleged possession of commercial explosives that they were reportedly selling to members of the public to cure ”aches and pains”.
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/ 24 February 2003
A group of San (Bushmen) from Lake Chrissie in Mpumalanga visited the mountain peaks of their forefathers in KwaZulu-Natal last week, along with local San descendants and other San from the Northern Cape.
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/ 4 February 2003
The editor of The Mercury newspaper in KwaZulu-Natal defended his decision not to place an advert from pro-life organisation, Christians for Truth, saying that ”the paper encourages debate”.
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/ 30 January 2003
The ”so-called” out-of-court settlement between the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) to ”doctor” the TRC report was a cause for serious concern, the African National Congress (ANC) in KwaZulu-Natal said on Thursday.
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/ 27 January 2003
Two more men have been arrested in connection with last week’s attack which claimed the life of KwaZulu-Natal social welfare MEC Prince Gideon Zulu’s son, police said on Monday.
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/ 21 January 2003
Prince Mazwi Zulu, who was shot on Monday in an attack on a car carrying him and his mother near Ulundi on Monday died in Durban’s St Augustine’s hospital just before 3pm on Tuesday.
A policeman and three suspected robbers were killed in a shootout after a high speed chase north of Durban on Thursday. This brings the number of policemen killed since Saturday to at least four.
The pending settlement of a land dispute case in northern KwaZulu-Natal could become an example for the rest of South Africa, which, like its neighbour Zimbabwe, is faced with a need to conduct land reform.
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.
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has declared a trade war on one of the world’s leading coffee producers, Nestle.
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.
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.
African foreign ministers were on Wednesday ready to begin refining the nuts and bolts for the launch of the African Union next week.
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”.
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).
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.
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.
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 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.
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 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.