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Building back: Since the floods of April 2022, people are, very slowly, rebuilding their lives in Inanda, the township just northwest of Durban. (Delwyn Verasamy)
APRIL 2022 FLOODS

The falling down place

While the scars left by the April 2022 flash floods aren’t obvious to visitors to Inanda, the township just northwest of Durban, the collective and individual trauma, often left…

  • Tanya Pampalone
15 min read
President Cyril Ramaphosa and ANC leadership in KZN visited eBuhleni to meet Nazareth Baptist Church leader Nyazilwezulu Shembe and bring gifts to the leader. Photo: Supplied
ANC

Ramaphosa promises state will build houses for Shembe congregants

The president’s visit and promise of housing is seen as an effort to garner ANC votes over the MK party ahead of elections

  • Clive Ndou
2 min read
The Namibia Stop 8 Housing Project in Inanda, eThekwini, started in 2019, but to date only this RDP house has been completed. Photo by Tsoanelo Sefoloko
DURBAN RDP HOUSING

R83-million and three years later, only one RDP house has been built in Durban project

Families who were relocated in November 2019 said they were told the project would take 18 months

  • Tsoanelo Sefoloko
3 min read
National Freedom Party members at the launch of the party’s 2014 election manifesto at Mehlareng Stadium in Tembisa, South Africa. The killing of a NFP candidate at Nongoma has sent the party’s candidates in KwaZulu-Natal into hiding in fear for their lives. (Photo by Gallo Images /Sowetan / Mohau Mofokeng)
AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS

Nongoma NFP candidate the latest victim of KwaZulu-Natal’s killing fields

National Freedom Party candidates in the Zululand town have gone into hiding amid fears that they will be targeted next

  • Paddy Harper
3 min read
ANC

ANC wants more cops for KZN political hotspots

The governing party will call off political activities in areas of KwaZulu-Natal where threats are detected ahead of time

  • Paddy Harper
3 min read
Former police minister Bheki Cele. (Paul Botes)
ALCOHOL

Drugs and alcohol abuse rage in crime stats

Substance abuse has emerged as a reason for the spike in crimes during the first quarter of 2021.

  • Khaya Koko
4 min read
Thobani K’s grandmother Nomusa Khumalo
DURBAN NORTH

The many meanings of water: The elements in Thobani K’s photography

Influenced by family history and the legacy of apartheid spatial zoning, Thobani K’s photographs are sociopolitically engaged

  • Niamh Walsh-Vorster
4 min read
What is infrequent, and horrifies us, are the repeated appearances of “criminality” and “xenophobia” conjoined as one event. (Hanna Brunlof)
INANDA

Can South Africa celebrate Africa Month?

We need to reflect more as we embrace Africa Month as to why and how xenophobia is fuelled in our country

  • Sharon Ekambaram
6 min read