South Africa|Kwazulu-Natal

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Workers have slept outside City Hall for a month, hoping to get jobs back

Their contracts were terminated in July and the eThekwini municipality says it is only considering applicants 35 or younger

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Brief | 21 November 2024

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Five years of water shortages in KZN township

Residents take legal action

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Brief | 20 November 2024

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Over a thousand RDP homes built in 2019 still without tap water

Human Rights Commission found significant backlogs in water supply at uMzinyathi District municipality, KwaZulu-Natal

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Brief | 19 November 2024

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EThekwini faces backlash over last-minute invites to homeless workshop

The invite was a “sop to inclusivity and disrespectful” to stakeholders and homeless people, says Raymond Perrier of the Denis Hurley Centre

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News | 16 November 2024

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Commission confirms probe into Magistrate Blose’s appointment

Blose was once an accused in a high profile corruption matter

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Law | 15 November 2024

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Durban police brutality case heads to trial after years of delays

The trial of 14 SAPS officers for the death-in-custody of Regan Naidoo in 2018 has been set down for June 2025

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News | 14 November 2024

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KwaZulu-Natal education department fails to pay crèches

The department confirmed there is a grant backlog but declined to give details

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News | 13 November 2024

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Ian Blose was suspended as an attorney in 2022. Yet he is still a practising magistrate

He was also charged in the 2010 “Amigos” corruption case

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Feature | 8 November 2024

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Sewage flows in streets as KZN township faces water crisis

For six months Sithembile township in Glencoe has been struggling with water shortages

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Brief | 7 November 2024

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Battle over land in KwaZulu-Natal

Since 2022, people have been trying to occupy land in Rocky Ridge in KwaDukuza

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Feature | 5 November 2024

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Magistrate becomes witness in his own matter

Interpol insisting on an interview forces magistrate to recuse himself from an extradition case

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Law | 1 November 2024

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Broken promises and neglect: the struggle for clean tap water in rural KZN

“Sometimes we fight over water”

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News | 1 November 2024

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Hundreds homeless after KZN demolitions

KwaDukuza municipality gets court order, demolishes 50 shacks

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Brief | 24 October 2024

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Promised land is a battleground: inside a Cato Manor informal settlement

Murder and fear stalk eKhenana shack dwellers

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Feature | 22 October 2024

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Seventh postponement in Durban police brutality case

The trial into the death in custody of Regan Naidoo in 2018 has still not begun, this time because of a complaint before the Legal Practice Council

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News | 21 October 2024

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Public Works workers picket through the night in Durban

They want jobs after their contracts were terminated in July

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Brief | 17 October 2024