Crooks out to get me - top cop
A damning document lays bare a conspiracy to oust Johan Booysen, the head of the KZN Hawks, and a plot to close down the unit. ||| A damning document, with transcripts of a taped conversation with a...
View Article12 cattle die in KZN cyanide spill
A total of 12 cattle have so far been reported dead after a cyanide spill in the Ngagane river near Newcastle. ||| A total of 12 cattle have so far been reported dead after a cyanide spill in the...
View ArticleAnother power surge for Durban
Residents of Morningside, are once again counting the cost of damage from a power surge in the area. ||| Residents of Morningside, Durban, were once again counting the cost of damage caused when a...
View ArticleTraditional council elections go well
Despite “some hiccups”, Co-operative Governance MEC Nomusa Dube said she was overwhelmed by the response. ||| Although there had been “some hiccups”, Co-operative Governance MEC Nomusa Dube said she...
View ArticleUKZN protest “ringleader” barred
The University of KwaZulu-Natal has barred student leader Lucky Nkalanga from all its campuses. ||| Striking students at the University of KwaZulu-Natal and student leader Lucky Nkalanga – accused of...
View ArticleFive held for hostel killings in KZN
Police have arrested five men allegedly involved in the killing of three people at KwaMashu Men’s Hostel. ||| Police have arrested five men allegedly involved in the killing of three people at KwaMashu...
View ArticleDusi heroes just 'happy to help'
Luke Tomlinson and Daniele Finezzi saved the life of a paddler during the Unlimited Dusi Canoe Marathon. ||| luke Tomlinson and Daniele Finezzi may not have finished the Unlimited Dusi Canoe Marathon...
View ArticleLand claims settled for R25m
A 16-year fight by hundreds of disposed families in Pietermaritzburg, has finally come to an end. ||| A 16-year fight by hundreds of disposed families for ownership of 7 600ha of ancestral land near...
View ArticleCompany admits to cyanide spill
A Newcastle company is under investigation for the fatal cyanide poisoning of a river in KZN. ||| A Newcastle company says it will compensate the owners of cattle which died of cyanide poisoning...
View ArticleFewer words, more action: SOPA
KZN Premier Zweli Mkhize may deliver more promises at his State of the Province address, writes Sipho Khumalo. ||| Perhaps the biggest challenge to all the governments in the world, including that of...
View ArticleChild sex workers ask for parents
Police are searching for the parents of 16 rescued child sex workers who were found in Durban. ||| The KwaZulu-Natal MEC for social development on Sunday called for the parents of 16 rescued child sex...
View ArticleSA heroes honoured in Mozambique
A monument will be erected in honour of the 12 South Africans who died during apartheid’s Matola raids in 1981. ||| The national Department of Arts and Culture, together with the South African High...
View ArticleMastermind murder case resumes
A crime involving a man being killed, exhumed and dumped into a river to be eaten by crocodiles, has resumed. ||| Ram Reddy fainted when he opened his bin and saw a pair of legs wearing white takkies...
View ArticleNo update on SA woman killed in India
The family of Niranjani Pillay say they are desperate for answers and to find their dead daughter’s toddler. ||| The Pillay family are playing the waiting game. More than three months have passed since...
View ArticleTraditional elections oblections lodged
Formal objections have been submitted to the electoral tribunal over the voting process in Sunday’s elections of traditional councils in KwaZulu-Natal. ||| Durban - Formal objections have been...
View ArticleNew ethics panel for Durban?
The eThekwini municipality may establish an ethics committee to keep councillors in line, and to punish them too. ||| The eThekwini council’s executive committee will consider on Thursday, a...
View ArticleDurban school a world-class institution
Livingston Primary School has become a leader in remedial education, writes Colleen Dardagan. ||| The last place parents want to send their children to school in Durban is equally the last place their...
View Article‘Shoot rhino poachers from the air’
Conservationists Ian Player says an air attack is the most efficient way to protect our rhino population. ||| South Africa’s war against rhino poaching will be won from the air.A frail Ian Player, 85,...
View ArticleeThekwini liable to pay boy R800k
A teenager who fell into a manhole in Durban, has successfully sued the eThekwini municipality for negligence. ||| Nine years ago, a group of teenagers met after school to play cards at a disused pump...
View ArticleKidnapped couple sold by pirates
Durban couple Bruno Pelizzari and Debbie Calitz have been sold by their pirate captors to another Somali group. ||| Durban couple Bruno Pelizzari and Debbie Calitz were sold by their pirate captors to...
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