Voting in Eshowe in KZN turned into a meat and greet as voters, and President Zuma, were met with competing political choirs — and boerewors rolls.
South Africa’s 2011 local government elections were a further confirmation of a maturing democracy, President Jacob Zuma said on Wednesday morning.
All eyes are on Ulundi to see how the new NFP party fares — and Nkandla, the traditional home of President Zuma, where many residents feel neglected.
Sheryl Cwele, the wife of state security minister Siyabonga Cwele, sat stony faced in the dock as Judge Piet Koen convicted her of dealing in cocaine.
Even a skilled performer like Zuma is finding it harder to strike a chord with all voters, writes <b>Niren Tolsi</b>
Sheryl Cwele was on Thursday found guilty on a charge of dealing in drugs, or conspiring to do so, in the Pietermaritzburg High Court.
Sheryl Cwele was on Thursday found not guilty on two of the charges she faced related to drug trafficking.
Judgement in the Sheryl Cwele drug-trafficking trial was postponed on Wednesday after the state submitted an application to have the case reopened.
President Jacob Zuma exhorted voters to go to the ballots on May 18 at an ANC rally at KwaMashu’s Rotary Sports Ground on Monday.
Whoever emerges as the mayor of the eThekwini municipality will represent a reconfiguration of the ANC’s power in the region.
The Baptist Nazareth (Shembe) Church’s succession woes moved towards the theatre of the absurd this week.
Relegation risk is trivial compared to multimillion rand tax bill and shareholder infighting.
Swaziland’s pro-democracy activists are still buoyant despite a crackdown on them by police.
The threat of mass evictions has been lifted from residents of Cape Town’s Joe Slovo informal settlement.
There was a ghoulish air to the Cape Town International Jazz Festival.
Alliance partner’s KwaZulu-Natal structures say they will ignore candidates who do not have grassroots backing.
With former allies facing off on the election battlefield the race is on for KwaZulu-Natal .
eThekwini manager Mike Sutcliffe wrote to the Hawks to ‘clear the air’ and said he is willing to cooperate with investigations.
The cocaine trafficking trial of Sheryl Cwele resumed on Monday with her lawyer attempting to further discredit state witness Charmaine Moss.
Angry northern KwaZulu-Natal communities feel BEE has not benefited them.
The Constitutional Court, in a landmark judgment opened up space for miners suffering from compensatable diseases.
Only two of the country’s six top metros are likely to retain their mayors after the local government elections in May.
Sushi scoffer Kenny Kunene was bundled into a police van in Cape Town on Sunday night and then fined R200 — for overloading his Lamborghini.
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/ 18 February 2011
SUV exhaust fumes and free T-shirts are probably the only guarantees the electorate can be certain of from politicians.
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/ 12 February 2011
The "sun of hope" rose at Durban’s Curries Fountain Ground on Saturday according to former Inkatha Freedom Party chairperson Zanele Magwaza.
Gross irregular spending, the continued haemorrhaging of municipal funds in eThekwini were just some of the auditor general’s findings.
Massive defections from Buthelezi’s stronghold could spell the end for the old order.
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/ 28 January 2011
The ICD has confirmed that it is investigating the circumstances surrounding the fatal shooting of a farmer in Babanango in northern KwaZulu-Natal.
Campaigning has begun early in eMangusi as the ANC attempts to consolidate its power.
Results from four municipal by-elections held in KZN this week dealt a blow to the aspirations of IFP national chairperson Zanele Magwaza-Msibi.
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/ 15 January 2011
As the IFP’s squabbling over leadership positions threatens to derail its aspirations, the ANC in KwaZulu-Natal is striking while the iron is hot.
In an age of lazy iconifying, Obed Musi was less remembered and celebrated than some contemporaries.