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 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.
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.