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Mxolisi Kaunda was appointed mayor of Durban by the governing party last month. (Mbuyiselo Ndlovu)

Durban on the up after purge

It began with reinstating the finance committee and cameras in the mayor’s parlour, and targeting bent business forums

Gumede withdraws her resignation as mayor (Photo Archive)

Gumede withdraws her resignation as mayor

The eThekwini council meeting to swear in new mayor Mxolisi Kaunda has been placed on ice

(John McCan/M&G)

Mother challenges home affairs

A stateless woman in Durban is waging a court battle to receive identification documents so she can apply for birth certificates for her children

Zandile Gumede was called to the ANC provincial office in Durban on Tuesday morning and informed of their redeployment. (Jackie Clausen/Gallo/The Times)

Gumede: going, going, gone…..

The Durban mayor has been axed along with her EXCO and that of Pietermaritzburg

Flooding in KwaZulu-Natal. File photo Rajesh Jantilala/AFP/Getty

The manifestation of climate injustice

Following the new UN report on climate change and agricultural land use, how will climate change affect communities in informal urban areas

Alfred Gove is a trader who travels to Durban using taxis. “The toilets here are mostly dysfunctional, so you go in the street. It is embarrassing. The smell is so bad.” (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

Durban, the city that forces the poor to defecate in the streets

Contemptuous municipal attitudes have compromised public sanitation in Durban forcing people into undignified, unhealthy and dangerous situations.

Umlazi citizens protest ahead of the May 8 polls. (Paul Botes/M&G)

eThekwini stutters as polling gets underway

Protests and strike action hamper IEC start to election

Floods hit areas of the Eastern Cape, including Port St Johns on the Wild Coast. Photo: Bantu Holomisa/Twitter
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Flooding in KZN kills five, more rain expected

Victims were either crushed to death by mudslides or drowned in flood waters according to search and rescue units