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Small- and medium-sized enterprises need and deserve a more predictable load-shedding to be in control of their destiny. Photographer: Dwayne Senior/Bloomberg via Getty Images
ANDRE DE RUYTER

Blackout: Municipalities brace for the worst

A total blackout is unlikely, but South Africa’s municipalities say they won’t be caught off guard

  • Sarah Smit
  • Mandisa Makgakga
6 min read
Marine disaster: Dead fish float in the uMhlanga Lagoon Nature Reserve river in Durban after a spill when the United Phosphorus Limited chemical plant was set alight during the July riots. The company had also failed to get environmental authorisation. Photo: Guillem Sartoria/AFP/Getty Images
BLUE FLAG STATUS

Sewage, chemical spills undermine environmental groups’ KZN marine clean-up

Sewage spillages are often result of no maintenance and the UPL chemical factory did not have environmental authorisation

  • Marcia Zali
2 min read
Sandile Rasta Mthembu works in the garden at the Jewish Club site for homeless people where he and others are farming the land just off Durban’s Golden Mile. Picture: Rogan Ward
ALBERT PARK

A year into Covid, Durban’s beachfront farmers are still tilling the soil

Homeless pioneers persevere with a project that came to life during the first lockdown

  • Paddy Harper
6 min read
Targeted: Foreign traders have not yet returned to their stalls as they are afraid of more attacks. More marches are planned in Durban in November, while traders lament that the city has taken no action yet
AFRICA SOLIDARITY NETWORK

Xenophobic tensions surge in KZN

Amid protests by the ANC’s MK Military Veterans, distressed foreign nationals have shut their stalls at a Durban flea market

  • Des Erasmus
7 min read
Former president Jacob Zuma with Roy Moodley during a Sanco rally at the Curries Fountain Stadium on April 13, 2014 in Durban. (Photo by Gallo Images / Sowetan / Thuli Dlamini)
ENFORCE

eThekwini’s everlasting security contract

An invalid contract worth R85-million a month is still being paid — three years after a court order to stop

  • Paddy Harper
4 min read