Fraud probe at Durban old age home

KwaMashu Christian Care Society has not been paying bills. Now water has been cut off.

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News | 29 August 2024

Ten years on and households still rely on water trucks

Communal standpipes used to supply water to semi-rural areas of northern KZN

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News | 26 August 2024

Durban land occupiers take municipality to court

Shacks in KwaDabeka have been continuously demolished, allegedly without an eviction order

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Brief | 22 August 2024

Households left without electricity as Eskom implements load reduction

Power utility says this is necessary to protect transformers overloaded by illegal connections

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News | 20 August 2024

Protesting residents shot outside KZN ward councillor’s house

Injured protestor said he was shot by one of councillor’s bodyguards

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News | 16 August 2024

Durban protesters block roads, demanding local clinic be re-opened

The Newtown A clinic has been closed since the floods in April 2022

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Brief | 12 August 2024

Police brutality case: former state prosecutor steps up to defend one of the accused

State is concerned over a conflict of interest in Regan Naidoo case

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Law | 8 August 2024

Rubbish piles up in Durban streets as cleaners picket outside city hall

Expanded Public Works Programme workers lose jobs as budget is cut

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Brief | 25 July 2024

Public Works workers picket in Durban, demanding to be insourced

They say they have been on up to six-month contracts, which were renewed repeatedly for ten years

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Brief | 23 July 2024

Hundreds of Public Works workers march against termination of contracts

After ten years of having their monthly contracts continuously extended, they will no longer be renewed at month end

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Brief | 19 July 2024

Umgeni: A river of sewage flowing through Durban

The municipal sewage works is one of the main pollution sources

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Feature | 18 July 2024

We had no water to put out the flames, say victims of Durban shack fire

Pregnant woman dies as 200 shacks gutted

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News | 15 July 2024

City of eThekwini pays millions for a handful of useless toilets and showers

A private company is charging the City R250,000 a month for 12 toilets and 12 showers at homeless shelters and hardly any of them are working

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News | 2 July 2024

Newtown families without water for two months in Inanda

Municipality says supply will be rationed until 2025 when upgrades to a pump station are completed

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Brief | 1 July 2024

Youth come out for Durban Pride

But government partners stay under the radar

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Brief | 1 July 2024

Security guards protest outside Durban hospital, demanding their jobs back

Their contracts were not renewed after they participated in an unprotected strike last year

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Brief | 13 June 2024