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Call for strong action against vigilantism

Action must be taken to avoid a repeat of last year’s xenophobic attacks, the Consortium for Refugees and Migrants in South Africa said on Wednesday.

Chinese vessel bearing arms stopped in Durban

The South African Police Service’s explosives unit confirmed on Wednesday that an uncleared Chinese vessel docked at the outer anchorage of Durban harbour was carrying arms.…

Protesters barricade Durban township

Scrap cars, fridges and burning tyres were used to barricade several Durban roads on Monday as about 500 residents demanded that a local ward councillor leave the area. The…

Murdered KZN woman ‘was state witness in fraud case’

A woman who was shot dead in front of her two children before being robbed of R70 in Pinetown on Wednesday morning had reportedly turned state witness in a Department of…

Man arrested at his illegal home affairs ‘office’

A 49-year-old man, who allegedly had been raking in millions of rands by manufacturing fake documents, was arrested in Durban on Thursday night. He had been operating a home…

Policeman fights for life after mall shoot-out

A Durban policeman is undergoing emergency surgery after he was shot twice in the chest while trying to apprehend armed robbers fleeing a crime scene, police said on Thursday.…

Exchange student raped in university residence

An American exchange student from California was raped in the early hours of Tuesday morning in a women’s residence at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. South African Police…

Sugar-cane murder accused appear in court

The case against a 36-year-old man accused of murdering 10 KwaZulu-Natal women and dumping their bodies in sugar-cane fields was remanded on Friday in the Umzinto Magistrate’s…

Police: Bomb attached to cash van in Durban

A bomb that was attached to a cash-in-transit vehicle in Durban was defused by the police’s bomb squad on Friday afternoon, police said. Spokesperson Superintendent Vincent…

Durban policeman arrested for rape

A policeman has been arrested for allegedly raping a sex worker, Durban police said on Monday. The man, together with a colleague, picked up the woman in a police vehicle,…

Durban harbour water recovering from chemical spill

Water quality in Durban’s harbour has started to improve following the release of chemicals from a blazing chemical storage depot, a senior Water Affairs and Forestry Department…

Worker reported missing after Durban inferno

One person was reported missing on Wednesday following a blaze that ripped through the Island View Storage (IVS) depot in Durban, police said. In a statement released shortly…

Hijackers run rampant on KZN North Coast

A man was wounded and a woman and two good Samaritans robbed of their vehicles amid a high-speed chase on the KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) North Coast, police said on Wednesday.…