The eThekwini municipality is intent on running a carbon-neutral World Cup from the new R3,1-billion Moses Mabhida stadium.
Magistrate Thomas Nhleko found Prince Sifiso Zulu guilty of culpable homicide in the Durban Magistrate’s Court on Thursday.
Claims of threats by a government spin doctor against a Pietermaritzburg-based journalist should be investigated, the Democratic Alliance has said.
The KwaZulu-Natal government is investigating 25 fraud and corruption cases involving more than R700-million.
To help welcome guests to the Soccer World Cup, Durban has begun teaching street vendors foreign languages.
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/ 15 February 2010
KwaZulu-Natal’s uMsunduzi Municipality, incorporating provincial capital Pietermaritzburg, has enough money to operate for just one more week.
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/ 13 February 2010
IFP president Mangosuthu Buthelezi on Saturday rebuked dissenters within his party and called for unity ahead of the local government elections.
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/ 9 February 2010
Fifteen people, including at least eight children, were burnt to death at an orphanage outside Newcastle on Tuesday, the KZN government said.
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/ 3 February 2010
A taxi driver — allegedly drunk — was arrested on Wednesday after he was caught transporting 49 schoolchildren in a 16-seater minibus.
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/ 2 February 2010
Sheryl Cwele (50), wife of State Security Minister Siyabonga Cwele, has denied being involved in drug trafficking.
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/ 26 January 2010
Forensic investigators employed by KZN’s social development department have recommended that 163 project managers be charged with fraud.
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/ 20 January 2010
A forensic investigation commissioned by KwaZulu-Natal’s social development department has revealed corruption involving about R300-million.
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/ 19 January 2010
The KZN government will start a massive male circumcision programme before the end of this year to help prevent the spread of HIV.
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/ 19 January 2010
Just over 49 000 people were arrested in KwaZulu-Natal during the festive season for crimes including rape, murder and armed robbery.
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/ 11 December 2009
The KwaZulu-Natal ANC Youth League expressed ”disgust” on Friday at the SACP delegates who booed Julius Malema at a conference in Polokwane.
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/ 10 December 2009
Doctors at Ngwelezane Hospital in Empangeni were forced to operate by torchlight because of insufficient emergency power supply, a report said.
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/ 10 December 2009
A committee has been set up to deal with taxi violence in KwaZulu-Natal, provincial transport minister Willies Mchunu said on Thursday.
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/ 4 December 2009
The court ruling allowing Zulus to go ahead with their killing of a bull has paved the way for cultural tolerance, Zweli Mkhize said on Friday.
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/ 4 December 2009
Zulus will be able to restore their king’s power with the bare-handed killing of a bull on Saturday, a court ruled on Friday.
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/ 2 December 2009
The leadership of KwaZulu-Natal alliance structures has vowed to vigorously defend infringements of the rights and cultures of any clan.
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/ 2 December 2009
Animal Rights Africa is ”heartened” at a court’s decision to postpone until Friday a ruling on the ritual killing of a bull.
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/ 30 November 2009
KwaZulu-Natal intends doing away with long waiting lists for life-prolonging ARVs, the provincial health minister said on Monday.
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/ 4 November 2009
University of Zululand students allegedly went on the rampage on Tuesday night, burning a lecture hall, police said on Wednesday.
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/ 22 October 2009
The KZN education department and police are investigating allegations of matric exam paper leaks, Senzo Mchunu said on Thursday.
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/ 18 October 2009
In a major legal victory for poor people’s rights to housing and shelter, the Constitutional Court this week struck down the KwaZulu-Natal Slums Act.
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/ 18 October 2009
Religion, history, geography and the clash of cultures somehow manage to get involved in a multiple-narrative pile-up in southern KwaZulu-Natal.
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/ 11 October 2009
The hatchet job on Durban’s Kennedy Road informal settlement continued this week with an alleged "healing process" by the KwaZulu-Natal government.
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/ 10 October 2009
KwaZulu-Natal economic development and tourism minister Mike Mabuyakhulu on Friday defended his R100 000 monthly mileage claims.
KZN minister Mike Mabuyakhulu received an average of R100 000 a month for using his private car for government work, it was reported on Friday.
A man who raped and strangled his girlfriend’s two-year-old girl was given two life sentences by the Durban High Court on Wednesday.
The SA Airlink pilot whose plane crash-landed in Merebank, south of Durban, on September 24 died in hospital on Wednesday.
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/ 28 September 2009
Political parties on Monday called on government to extend the KwaZulu-Natal’s top cop’s contract until the 2010 World Cup.