Phoenix
latest news & developmentsHow sugar’s rise and collapse shaped KZN
Tongaat Hulett, once the pride of the sugar belt and a 134-year-old industrial icon, has collapsed under the weight of mismanagement, scandal and shifting global markets
Dispute over ‘unlawful’ development in Durban’s D’Moss zone leads to legal threats
But eThekwini metro says it has approved plans for housing to be built on the environmentally sensitive ‘green belt’
Editorial | Water: A matter of life and death
South Africa’s service delivery woes have attracted all manner of violence. As water becomes more scarce, things will get worse
Durban again hammered by heavy rain, flooding
A severe storm system left a trail of destruction in eThekwini, KwaDukuza and Ndwedwe
Durban social housing battle goes to court
Tenants in Durban blocks want the court to give them the right to buy their homes
Waning funds threaten Gandhi’s South African legacy
Now turned into a museum, the house where he lived in the eastern town of Phoenix and which also housed his newspaper is falling into disrepair
EFF marched but it was no Sri Lanka moment
Police Minister Bheki Cele and his team of officers appear to be better at arresting radials than criminals
What happened to church during Covid?
Attendances rose as lockdown was eased and then lifted — but some people were lured by glamorous online churches abroad
Africans were racially profiled in Phoenix — Durban mayor
The eThekwini mayor says there were incidents of excessive use of force towards Africans at roadblocks controlled by residents
Fearmongering undermined police efforts amid July unrest, Cele says
Instigators took to social media to stoke fears among police officers, the police minister told the South African Human Rights Commission hearings on Monday
Cele, Sitole beef continues at hearings into July’s unrest
The minister again accused the commissioner of being missing in action when the violence raged in KwaZulu-Natal
‘We saw dark clouds gathering’, Cele tells HRC about July unrest
The police minister told the Human Rights Commission the president instructed him to avoid violence in response to Jacob Zuma’s pending arrest as far as legally possible
Phoenix hearings lay bare tensions between Black and Indian residents
Indian residents deny ‘massacre’ label; black survivors claim violence and orchestration
Survivor of Phoenix massacre describes how he was called a monkey, assaulted and shot twice in the back
On day three of the SAHRC hearings into the July unrest, victim Ntethelelo Mkhize disputes the testimony of activist Sham Maharaj
Racial tension and distrust evident in Human Rights Commission hearings on July riots
On day two of the HRC’s hearings into the violent unrest of July, a witness was accused of minimising the anguish of the families of those murdered to protect the image of Indian…