Legal battle to remove occupiers from land in Ballito

KwaDukuza Municipality says the land is earmarked for a school and clinic, but occupiers say they can’t move away from job opportunities

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News | 3 April 2025

Deaths spark protest over unsafe bridge outside Pinetown

Umngeni River claims two lives

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News | 28 March 2025

Durban judge gags journalist

Reporter prevented from exposing claims that a solar panel company misled a client

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Law | 27 March 2025

PRASA can’t say when Durban’s Northern Coast line will open again

Agreement not yet reached between Transnet and PRASA

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Brief | 19 March 2025

Long-suffering Durban residents could wait years for end to water crisis

Finance Minister on Wednesday said construction of Mkhomazi Water Project, which includes a new dam, will only start in November 2027

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News | 14 March 2025

More than 20 dead and hundreds displaced in KZN floods

Sithembiso Mbutho died crossing the Mthwalume River. Residents have been pleading for the government to build a bridge

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News | 5 March 2025

“Startling ruling” lets Judge Anton van Zyl escape impeachment for late judgments

The Judicial Conduct Committee has ruled that the retired judge, who is the main offender for late judgements, cannot be referred for impeachment

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Law | 4 March 2025

Durban residents threaten to stop paying rates

More than half of eThekwini municipality’s water revenue is lost to leaks, theft and unbilled consumption

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News | 3 March 2025

Durban students protest housing crisis

Hundreds of Thekwini College TVET students say they haven’t been able to pay for residences due to funding bungle

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Brief | 25 February 2025

KZN activist shot dead

Vusi Banda – Mondlo Township Civic Organisation chairperson – was murdered on Thursday

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Brief | 21 February 2025

Mondlo residents want to leave their municipality

Hundreds of people marched to the Abaqulusi Municipality offices to demand services

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Brief | 20 February 2025

Waste management project is changing lives in rural KwaZulu-Natal

Kenneth Shelembe says he makes a living wage through the Nquthu Waste Management Project

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Brief | 20 February 2025

Learners miss days of school due to protests in rural KZN

Villagers of Odadeni and KwaQoloqolo have been protesting since Monday for water, among other demands.

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Brief | 14 February 2025

Pensioners queue for hours to replace expiring SASSA cards

“If I don’t change my card there will be no income in my house,” says 84-year-old KZN pensioner

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News | 14 February 2025

Patients have to get water brought to them at this Durban hospital

Municipality is rationing water to large parts of the city

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Brief | 10 February 2025

Storms damage hundreds of homes and schools in northern KZN

Homes damaged across Msinga and Abaqulusi municipalities

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Brief | 5 February 2025