The salvage team on the grounded Jolly Rubino off the northern Kwazulu-Natal coast had to be evacuated on Wednesday due to the intensifying fire on board, Smit Salvage said.
Police have arrested five of the six men wanted in connection with October’s Soweto and Bronkhorstpruit bombings and unearthed explosives ”clearly designed to kill”, a statement said on Wednesday.
The Jolly Rubino, the burning ship stuck on a sandbank off the ecologically sensitive St Lucia wetland and estuary in KwaZulu-Natal, is showing signs off breaking up, a KZN Wildlife official said.
Following Friday’s announcement that South African Bali blast victims Craig Harty and Godfrey Fitz were officially presumed dead, no further details could be released on the status of South Africans who remained on the island.
THE Constitutional Court has reserved judgement in the State’s appeal against a Pretoria High Court order that it roll out its antiretroviral programmes.
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.
Pietermaritzburg is set to be the sole seat of the KwaZulu-Natal legislature, despite opposition from the Inkatha Freedom.
The establishment of Sentech’s corporate social investment unit late last year and the appointment of Maureen Mphatsoe as manager, signals the company’s commitment to provide technical and other support for the burgeoning information and communication sector
Ice Station Johannesburg, an accredited parallel event to the World Summit for Sustainable Development, will host an art exhibition called ”Fantastic Rubbish”.
South Africa’s population rose by an average of
657 532 annually between 1996 and 2002, bringing the total figure from 42-million in 1996 to 46-million in 2002.
A 31-year-old man was arrested in Tsakane near Boksburg on Monday for allegedly selling his 18-day-old baby.
The African National Congress (ANC) gained an overall majority in eThekwini municipality on Tuesday when six councillors took advantage of the floor-crossing legislation to join it.
Poet, playwright and song-writer Mbongeni Ngema said he stood by the issues raised in his controversial song ”AmaNdiya”, about the oppression of blacks by Indians.
Three political parties on Monday called on the Justice Department to release the details of the 33 prisoners who were granted a presidential pardon over the weekend.
The ANC said it had lost one of its stalwarts, Comrade Justice Maqina Mpanza, best known as Gizenga, who died on Tuesday after two days of illness.
A Tongaat man was shot dead and his son injured on their sugar cane plantation in northern KwaZulu-Natal on Saturday morning, police said.
About 75% of children younger than 17 lived below the poverty line of R400 per month in 1999, the Institute for Democracy in South Africa said on Tuesday.
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.
The ANC in KwaZulu-Natal indicated on Friday it intended to pressure its national leaders to seek changes to the Constitution as soon as possible to allow floor-crossing at provincial and national level.
In the application to have the ”crossing-the-floor” legislation declared unconstitutional, the Constitutional Court was told the defection law in question diminishes the Constitution and ”devalues the vote”.
A programme to provide a basic amount of free water to every household in South Africa has now reached an estimated 27-million people.
KwaZulu-Natal has historically been one of South Africa’s more volatile provinces. With political tensions on the rise again, some analysts fear there may be potential for renewed conflict.
The Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town Njongonkulu Ndungane says it is perhaps time Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang quits and looks for another job.
Over 90 farms and other residences are being raided in all provinces as part of a countrywide intelligence-driven operation which started in the early hours on Friday, police reported.
South Africa’s first Beer Route was launched on Wednesday by the KwaZulu-Natal tourism department in conjunction with five independent micro breweries.
The lawyers of thousands of South Africans suffering from asbestos-related diseases said on Monday they would return to the United Kingdom High Court in an effort to force mining company Cape Plc to pay overdue settlement claims.
DEFENCE Minister Mosiuoa Lekota has stated publicly that the government’s attempts to end the economic and political crisis in Zimbabwe had failed, his representative said on Saturday.
The cause of Saturday’s fire at the Empangeni Road Traffic Inspectorate was arson, the KwaZulu-Natal department of transport has confirmed.
The Department of Correctional Services is probing why six successful job applicants all gave the Cape Town residence of an African National Congress MP as their home address.
Political control changed hands in 21 municipalities in four provinces following a 15-day floor-crossing window period for local councillors — 13 of them in the Western Cape, it emerged on Friday.
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
Limpopo was the province with the highest economic growth rate last year. It also has the highest economic growth rate on average over the past six years, Statistics SA said on Thursday.