KwaZulu-Natal has been struck by tragedy. On Wanda Cele Road, eleven people lost their lives when a taxi and a truck collided. Among the dead was a school-going child. Several others survived but sustained severe injuries. The crash occurred on the very wet and slippery R102 near Lotus Park, south of Durban Metro, on Thursday
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Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) leader Julius Malema appeared last week, Friday, 23 January, in the Magistrate’s Court on charges of unlawfully discharging a firearm at a party rally in Mdantsane. During the pre-sentencing proceedings, the court continues to consider issues of responsibility, risk, regret, and the wider ramifications of firearm-related offences, casting the pre-sentencing proceedings,
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eThekwini Municipality honoured its Class of 2025 top achievers at the annual Mayoral Matric Awards Ceremony. The municipality celebrated its top matriculants on 23 January at an intimate ceremony held at the Durban ICC, where Wang Kuo-Hung from Northwood High School was announced as the first-place achiever of the Class of 2025. The ceremony also
An undercover South African Police Service (SAPS) Crime Intelligence operative has told the Madlanga Commission of Inquiry that the 2017 assassination of former ANC Youth League secretary-general Sindiso Magaqa was not an inevitable act of violence — but one that could have been prevented if his warnings had been heeded. Testifying in camera on Monday
Durban, South Africa — The leader of the controversial March and March Movement, Jacinta Ngobese-Zuma, is expected to present herself at a police station on Tuesday morning after the South African Police Service (SAPS) reportedly decided to press charges against her for incitement to public violence linked to anti-immigrant protests. Ngobese-Zuma’s organisation, which has drawn
Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates have been at loggerheads over military and diplomatic policies. Riyadh and Abu Dhabi have fallen out over what each Middle Eastern economic power house wants in terms of their wider alliance and long-term relationship. The spark of this recent feud between allies-turned-rivals was the initial seizure of power
Iran will not be the same again following the mass demonstrations over the last two weeks and the subsequent crackdown that has taken place. Building on a recent history of similar mass protests, this latest unrest has transcended all sections of Iranian society. The regime of the so-called Islamic Republic may not yet fall, but
The eThekwini Municipality has set its sights on cleaning up areas affected by illegal dumping. The municipality has focused first on Pinetown. The areas of Ashley, Caversham Glen, and Marianhill Park, among others in the vicinity, have been experiencing the onslaught of waste being openly discarded across the environment. The crisis has grown despite attempts
Pretoria has played host to the BRICS Plus bloc’s military exercise drills off South Africa’s coast. The drills known as WILL FOR PEACE 2026, have attracted the anger of the United States governing establishment. This time the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Foreign Affairs has accused the government of President Cyril Ramaphosa and the
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The United States (US) preferential-trade deal in relation to several African regional economic powerhouses, known as the Africa Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA), passed through the American legislative lower chamber (House of Representatives) by a vote of 340 to 54 on January 12 this year. The bill will now be subjected to a vote in
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