A mountain of unclaimed, decomposing corpses was just one of the nightmares Farouk Chothia recently discovered at the largest mortuary.

They could have been Natal’s "star-crossed overs" but their story has a happy ending.

When a district surgeon was appointed kwaZulu’s minister of health he ensured that he would still be paid for his former job, reports Farouk Chothia.

Disgruntled Umkhonto weSizwe soldiers in southern Natal ended their 10-day sit-in at the African National Congress’s regional offices in Durban.