Durban homeowners withhold payments to protest rates hike

Homeowners say the eThekwini municipality’s 2023/2024 budget does not take into account the inclusive needs of ratepayers.

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News | 8 August 2023

Two years after Phoenix violence, anger at government inaction

This comes as two brothers are set to be sentenced in August

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News | 26 July 2023

Thirteen years after making way for World Cup, Durban residents still waiting for houses

But the eThekwini Municipality says its still busy verifying beneficiaries

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Brief | 21 July 2023

Thousands left homeless by devastating Kennedy Road shack fire

One man died in the blaze early on Sunday morning

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Brief | 17 July 2023

Chip factory workers will challenge dismissal in Labour Court

Frimax Foods in Durban fired the workers who downed tools in an unprotected strike in June

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News | 14 July 2023

Staff at Chatsworth hospital picket over poor working conditions

Staff shortages saw nurses having to work as cleaners and clerks

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Brief | 13 July 2023

KZN health department fires hospital security company

Guards downed tools because they have not yet been paid for June

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Brief | 12 July 2023

Public Protector probes government’s 2022 flood relief efforts

Auditor-General recently revealed that KwaZulu-Natal only spent R251-million of the R5.8-billion budget allocated in the aftermath of the 2022 floods

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News | 12 July 2023

EThekwini Municipality fixes streetlights in Bester at last

Community policing forum members says better lit streets will make crime prevention and patrols easier

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Brief | 3 July 2023

Striking Durban food workers head to CCMA

Frimax Foods dismissed workers who downed tools earlier this month

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News | 29 June 2023

Durban community fears life in the dark without streetlights

The City has hired private security after losing millions of rand annually to cable theft and vandalism

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News | 26 June 2023

South African scientist hopes to head world’s most important climate change body

Debra Roberts is running for the position of chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

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Interview | 19 June 2023

R83-million and three and a half years later only one RDP house to show for it

Namibia Stop 8 Housing Project in Inanda started in 2019 and was meant to deliver hundreds of houses

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News | 14 June 2023

“Using the bucket is better than risking your life trying to go to the neighbour’s toilet” says Durban resident

The DA in KZN is writing to the Human Rights Commission about old and overflowing pit toilets in the community

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News | 19 May 2023

It will take eThekwini over 90 years to fix informal settlements, says metro

Meanwhile thousands of families in Foreman Road informal settlement live without adequate services

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News | 9 May 2023

Life at Cato Crest gets worse as ward councillor remains behind bars

Residents accuse eThekwini Municipality of ignoring their calls for help

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News | 8 May 2023