Former police commissioner Bheki Cele’s popularity could prove divisive if he carries an anti-Zuma mandate, writes Niren Tolsi.
South Africans are flocking to urban areas in search of a better life and are putting strain on scarce resources, writes Lynley Donnelly.
Mandebvu, in central Durban, is home to 55 Zimbabwean men who pay R30 a day in rent to live there, sharing five bathrooms and seven toilets.
It is trite but disturbingly true that the political murders have returned KwaZulu-Natal to its bloody past, writes Niren Tolsi.
ANC members have claimed that auditors padded the figures for provinces crucial to Jacob Zuma’s party presidency re-election campaign.
The myriad problems confronting South Africa come at a highly inconvenient time for the African National Congress, writes Rapule Tabane.
While an increase in members in KZN may boost Zuma’s hopes for a second term, it may also make governing the party and the country very difficult.
Eighty percent of Durban beach water that was tested during the past year did not meet South African water standards according to a new report.
For as long as South Africans believe they can get away with murder, they will continue to kill. What do we say now that black people are in charge?
Locals on the KwaZulu-Natal south coast have attempted to free beach-loving tourists of more than just urban tension and winter baggage.
A pro-Palestinian lobby group in SA has welcomed the news that a delegation of KwaZulu-Natal officials has cancelled a planned visit to Israel.
The government is planning a new R2-billion town in President Zuma’s home village of Nkandla, and taxpayers will have to pick up half the tab.
With the African National Congress beset by factionalism, is the province still 100% Jacob Zuma? Niren Tolsi investigates.
The head of Zim’s Marange diamond firm, a trusted Mugabe lieutenant, has paid inflated prices for prime real estate in KwaZulu-Natal and Sandton.
"Our core business as the KwaZulu-Natal Department of Education is curriculum delivery in schools," says MEC for Education Senzo Mchunu.
Companies connected to senior party officials may have profited from a ‘cover quoting’ racket. Jonathan Erasmus reports.
A new initiative byt the KZN education department aims to improve matric results and foster teacher growth.
KwaZulu-Natal education minister Senzo Mchunu has warned teachers who used corporal punishment to discipline pupils that they could lose their jobs.
Bheki Cele says he will wait for the outcome of the inquiry into his fitness to hold office before discussing his political future.
Delegates at the ANC’s KwaZulu-Natal congress have decided that the leadership in the province will not change.
ANC provincial heads in KwaZulu-Natal have pledged their allegiance to the current ANC leadership at the party’s elective conference in Mangaung.
The top three winners in the Excellence in Secondary School Teaching category.
ANC KwaZulu-Natal chairperson Zweli Mkhize has told members at a KZN election gathering that nobody is more important than the party.
A company run by a matric pupil has been awarded an R800 000 tender by the KwaZulu-Natal municipality presided over by his elder brother.
Police and disaster services says Cyclone Irina remains a threat to the KwaZulu-Natal coast, with a threat of flooding and gale-force winds.
A team of chemical engineers at UKZN is hard at work trying to develop a high-tech, multi-use toilet that people in the developing world will want.
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/ 10 February 2012
The taxpayer is picking up the tab for suspended police chief Bheki Cele’s defamation case as "a matter of principle".
After a drop in its 2011 matric pass rate, the KwaZulu-Natal education department says poverty is one of the largest stumbling blocks for its pupils.
Ezemvelo KZN Wildlife has said its rhino hunt tender, won by a KwaZulu-Natal businessman, will benefit the impoverished community of KwaMduku.
IFP president Mangosuthu Buthelezi has said he is worried about the amount of corruption and self-serving ambition that has flooded into politics.
The ANC is accused of diverting state money from much-needed causes to spend on electioneering.
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/ 28 November 2011
In the wake of the start of the COP17 conference on climate change, six more people have been killed in floods after sever rains in KwaZulu-Natal.