Niren Tolsi checks out this year’s Durban
International Film Festival, which has work dedicated to the recent xenophobic attacks across the country.
The trial of Durban businessman Prince Sifiso Zulu has been set down for August, the Durban Magistrate’s Court heard on Friday.
At least 13 people died in a collision between two trucks, two cars and a minibus taxi near Ladysmith in KwaZulu-Natal on Thursday, police said.
A fourth person has been arrested in connection with at least one of several drive-by shootings in Durban’s Chatsworth suburb, police said on Tuesday.
KwaZulu-Natal’s wandering hippo Nonkululeko was shot dead on Tuesday morning in Durban, Animal Rights Africa said.
A hijacker nabbed following a shootout with police on the KwaZulu-Natal North Coast has turned out to be a police officer, police said on Monday.
The Sharks secure a bonus-point Currie Cup win in Durban as the Bulldogs score a huge surprise in Witbank.
South Africa’s state enterprises are vital to the development of the country and its people’s skills, ANC president Jacob Zuma said on Friday.
Determining whether Jacob Zuma is innocent or guilty is of the ”most pressing interest”, says the National Prosecuting Authority in court papers.
Immigrants endure inhumane conditions, but would rather stay than return to their communities when the camps close on July 23.
A pregnant woman is beaten by guards as foreigners displaced by xenophobia stage a sit-in on the steps of Durban’s City Hall.
South Africa is a nation of activists, but the Congress of South African Trade Unions seems to be barking up the wrong tree.
Durban businessman and socialite Prince Sifiso Zulu is no longer under police guard in hospital, police said on Wednesday.
Thousands march in Durban in protest against job losses caused by the electricity crisis and spiralling food, fuel and other prices.
Durban businesses on Wednesday reported that up to 80% of their workers failed to turn up ahead of the planned Cosatu protest.
Police were on Wednesday searching for body parts that were sliced off three corpses at a Pietermaritzburg mortuary.
Bruce Dalling (69), who won the 1968 transatlantic single-handed yacht race on handicap, died on his Howick farm on July 7.
South Africa has the world’s fourth-highest TB burden and the national response is in many cases a shambles.
A nuclear power station at Thuyspunt would be a disaster for the environment and tourism in Jeffrey’s Bay and St Francis Bay, says a surfers’ body.
This year’s Durban Fashion Week was more earthen glamour than razzle dazzle, writes Niren Tolsi.
“All the people inside wanted to eat him like they did. I don’t know how many men [raped him], but it was messy.” A formidable, broad woman, Ma Khambule* allows her eyes to water just a little as she recounts the pain of discovering that her 15-year-old son, Siya*, was allegedly raped “many, many times” […]
SA Aids patients in Durban are under siege from drug addicts who rob them of their antiretroviral treatment to get high.
The sardines have skipped Durban’s main beaches yet again, the Natal Sharks Board said on Wednesday. Chief executive Mike Anderson-Reade said not a single sardine had been seen on Durban’s coastline this year. He said there had been activity in the Eastern Cape waters on Tuesday but that there was nothing in KwaZulu-Natal. Early in […]
The Sharks have announced that Springbok captain John Smit has signed a contract with the franchise for 2008 and 2009.
Diagnosing extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB) will be reduced from several weeks — and in some cases several months — to about a week.
KwaZulu-Natal’s environment minister on Tuesday threatened to prosecute residents in the north of the province who invaded the Ndumo Game Reserve.
As provincial ANC chair, KwaZulu-Natal Finance MEC Zweli Mkhize feels his first challenge is to deliver a ”decisive” victory in next year’s election.
The deputy mayor of the Umkhambithini local municipality, Johnson Shlangu Mkhize, was shot and killed in Ngilanyoni on Saturday night.
A 42-year-old teacher was shot dead in a school driveway in Durban’s Umlazi suburb on Thursday, police said.
The Assmang company in Cato Ridge has been instructed to demolish a hostel on its premises because of risks the inhabitants face from manganese dust.
Jacob Zuma’s lawyer filed papers with the Pietermaritzburg High Court on Monday morning, arguing that his corruption trial be declared invalid.
The African National Congress is being tested but its greatest test will be the 2009 elections, party president Jacob Zuma said on Sunday.