The ANC-run eThekwini municipality in KwaZulu-Natal is facing the prospect of being sued for allegedly breaching an agreement with an event organising company. The municipality allegedly entered into an agreement with Ezombuso Group, a company owned by Sibongiseni Jaca, to sponsor the hugely popular 503 music festival. The festival was originally held in KwaMashu to promote township tourism in the INK (Inanda, Ntuzuma, KwaMashu) zone, townships in the northern side of Durban. As part of the agreement inked in 2022,…

The R80 million drugs busted by the KwaZulu-Natal police earlier on Friday was shipped from Brazil in South America and disguised as kidney beans destined for the South African market.  Police said the ship that delivered it left Brazil early last month and docked in Durban over the weekend. Acting on intelligence gathered about the ship, the police searched the container and found pure cocaine. “Police received information about a vessel which left Brazil at the beginning on November and…

The police in KwaZulu-Natal are hunting for a foreign pastor who runs a church in Umbilo in Durban to answer why his house in Pinetown was being used to manufacture fake hair products. The discovery was made on Tuesday while police were following a trail of a flow bin which was stolen at Westmead industrial site near Pinetown in the west of Durban.  Intelligence information led the police to a house in Somerset Place in Pinetown where the stolen flow…

The police have officially confirmed that they have arrested three top political office bearers at the Nongoma Local Municipality in northern KwaZulu-Natal earlier on Friday. However, they did not reveal the charges except that the suspects will appear in court on Monday where they would be presented with the charge sheet. “The SAPS confirms that there are politicians and officials attached to the Nongoma Local Municipality that have been arrested. They are expected to appear in court on Monday morning.…

The Newcastle local municipality in KwaZulu-Natal has allayed fears that its tap water is unsafe to drink, saying the two circulating voice notes are spreading misinformation. The assurance comes as late yesterday two different voice notes started doing rounds claiming that the Chelmsford-Ntshingwayo dam which supplies most areas in the Amajuba district has been poisoned. According to the voice notes that have since been flagged as “fake news” meant to create unnecessary panic, the dam was poisoned by Pakistani nationals…

Angry residents of KwaMashu township in Durban in KwaZulu-Natal have flipped the script, saying the 21 days the government gave them to register their spaza shops is the same period within which foreign nationals must leave the country. The residents said this earlier on Thursday, November 21, during a march across the township against foreign nationals.  Conducted under the watchful eyes of the South African Police Service (SAPS) and Durban metro police, the group of protestors carried placards reading “Enough…

Kwazulu-Natal police, led by Provincial Commissioner General Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi, have raided a factory in which expired and contaminated food items are stored before distribution to the various wholesalers and spaza shops. This is part of a campaign against contaminated food announced by President Cyril Ramaphosa last week following the deaths of 22 schoolchildren nationwide from food poisoning.

The former minister of the South African Police Service (SAPS), Bheki Cele, has shed more light about the criminal incidents that have happened at his home since he left office. Cele told SABC’s Face the Nation last night that he is being followed by unknown cars and recently, there was a break-in at his house in Durban, KwaZulu-Natal. Cele was speaking about the matter for the second time. He first made some scant revelations about this while speaking to Vuma…

Academic Mary de Haas of UKZN has long studied the prevalence of violence and its intersectionalities in Natal. She examines the complex relationships between violence and other social, political, and economic factors within the provincial context. The Moerane Commission later confirmed that Glebelands, townships, municipalities and taxi ranks are killing fields. Although the Moerane Report has been widely criticised for not being implemented effectively, it remains crucial for understanding the root causes of political violence in the province. Many reports…