eThekwini mayor Zandile Gumede will be appearing in the regional commercial crimes court in Durban on Tuesday, in what is expected to become one of the most high-profile corruption cases in recent years. Gumede is expected to be handing herself over to the Hawks, following which she will be appearing in court on a string..
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eThekwini mayor Zandile, ally of former president Jacob Zuma, in hot water over R25 million toilet scam
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Sh*thole country? – Swimming, surfing and fishing banned in Durban due to raw sewage in water – surf contest, been called to protect the safety and health of surfers
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Swimming, surfing and fishing have been banned in Durban due to raw sewage in the water. Hundreds of thousands of litres of raw sewage is flowing into the port every hour. The eThekwini municipality’s health unit, on Thursday, ordered the City’s parks, recreation and culture department to ban all bathing on Durban’s beaches until further..
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A possible disaster awaits Christians:- ACDP leader to oppose any changes to Christian holidays
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African Christian Democratic Party President Reverend Kenneth Meshoe was delivering a Resurrection Sunday sermon at the New Bethesda Church in Chatsworth south of Durban. Good Friday and Christmas Day could be removed from the South African calendar. This is according to the president of the African Christian Democratic Party (ACDP), the Reverend Kenneth Meshoe. Meshoe..
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Dissatisfied municipal workers bring Durban CBD to a halt by obstructing streets with waste
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Durban’s central business area was brought to a halt when Durban Waste Removal Agency workers blocked the streets with solid waste.
Waste trucks full of garbage were used to dump into the streets. The action is in protest against raising old MK members salaries in the department.
MK members ‘salaries are apparently increased from R9,000 to R20,000 and it appears that several departments in the Durban municipality are following the same policy regarding MK members’ remuneration, but observers reckon MK members serving are working much less than the other workers.
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Police uncover Durban dog hoarder’s house of horrors – 80 dogs being kept in residential property
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A hoarders house of horrors has been exposed in Durban after police responded to complaints of a large number of dogs being kept in a residential property. The South African Police Service together with the SPCA have raided a house in Durban that was home to 80 dogs. Rescuers found the yard in a disheveled..
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Pandemonium brakes loose at China Mall – Woman falls to her death in an attempt to escape violent protesters in Durban
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Chaos erupted in the area on Sunday night, when a mob of 100 people burnt and looted local tuckshops.
A man was shot dead and two others wounded after shop owners allegedly opened fire on the mob.
Violent action continued into Monday morning, when roads were blocked off and tyres were set alight.
According to Rescue Care’s Garrith Jamieson, on 25 March 2019, a female, believed to be about 45 years old, fell to her death when she plunged through the roof of a building at China Mall in Inanda Road, Durban. Jamieson said the female was allegedly trying to runaway from incensed protesters when the tragedy occurred.
She fell approx 3m to her death. Paramedics arrived to find her in a state of cardiac arrest. The patient sustained critical injuries and was declared deceased on scene.
It has not yet been established whether the woman was a shop owner or an employee.
Two men who were also trying to escape the mob on the roof also fell through and suffered s
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Armed gangs now target Health Care centres – Five armed men rob Durban kidney patients undergoing dialysis
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Staff and patients were held up at gunpoint at the Kidney Care Centre in Glenwood, Durban on Thursday.
Colonel Thembeka Mbele, a KwaZulu-Natal police spokesperson, said the complainant alleged that on Thursday at 05:20, he was performing his duties as a hospital security guard at Umbilo area when five suspects alighted from a white Polo Vivo vehicle and Gold Toyota Yaris.
“At gunpoint the suspects proceeded to the hospital. They robbed the nursing staff and the patients of their jewellery, eight cellphones and a laptop before fleeing the crime scene in their getaway vehicle.
A case of robbery was opened at Umbilo police station for investigation.
Some of the patients were already receiving dialysis treatment when the men stormed in.
One of the robbers bit a nurses finger in an attempt to get her wedding ring removed.
A patient who had walked in while the robbery was in progress was forced to lay down on the floor.
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All five campuses of the Durban University of Technology’s academic programs have been “temporarily” suspended after ongoing student protests
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Lectures at all five campuses of the Durban University of Technology’s academic programs have been “temporarily” suspended due to ongoing student protests.
Opinion polls believe it is time for government to include higher education institutions that are unproductive and destructive.
Meanwhile, seven students have been arrested at the Mongosuthu University of Technology in Durban for damage to property.
The vandalism at Durban’s educational institutions has led to chaos over the past month, and many students have sustained injuries after they hit the police.
The original article can be read in Afrikaans on Die Vryburger
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Illegal land grabs take place in Durban after hundreds of people who are fed up with slow pace of housing delivery allocated plots themselves and start building shacks
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Fed up with the slow pace of housing delivery, hundreds of people have invaded vacant state land earmarked for a low-cost housing project in the Cato Crest informal settlement in Durban.
The residents descended on land in Mary Thipe Road, which boarders Mayville and Manor Gardens, on Monday and Tuesday and started clearing the bushes and allocating themselves plots to start building shacks.
While many residents were not willing to be interviewed or photographed, Happy Zwane told TimesLIVE that she was clearing the bush so that she could build her two children a home to leave them with when she dies.
“I have two children and I’m not married and I want to clear a plot for them so that when I die they would have a place to live. I don’t have a place of my own because I don’t own the place I live in. So I want to live my children with a home,” she said.
Others complained about being used as voting fodder by political parties and blamed the ANC for failing to de
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Hijackings skyrocket in KZN along with scary new trend where victims are now being abducted by attackers
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One Durban hijacking reported every day over the past week.Blue Security has warned motorists to be on high alert following a spike in Durban hijackings, and a new trend of hijackers attempting to abduct drivers in their vehicles.
Blue Security operations director Brian Jackson said the company had received reports of five hijackings and two attempted hijackings across Durban over the past week alone.
“When considered as an average that is at least one hijacking being reported to our company every day, and this excludes any additional incidents that we don’t hear of, which may be reported to other local security firms and directly to the police,” Jackson said. “What has most concerned us about this latest wave of hijackings in the city, is that a trend has emerged in which hijackers are now attempting to abduct motorists in their vehicles.”
Jackson said in at least two of the recent incidents, hijackers had succeeded in abducting their victims, and i
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eThekwini slams those opposed to R20m statues as being against black unity – Taxpayers in Durban will have to cough up for the erection of two new statues of terrorists worth R20m to promote black unity in the province
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Two new statues of terrorists will cost Durban taxpayers R20m. The erection of the statues is alleged to promote black unity in the province. However to the cost of whom? The municipality believe that terrorists Nelson Mandela and Oliver Tambo will be “honored” in this way and will encourage to promote black unity. The previous..
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It pays to be a criminal in SA – Sorghum beer, drugs found in Westville prison search
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A routine search at the Westville Medium B prison in Durban on Monday resulted in the confiscation of a number of prohibited items such as sorghum beer and drugs, the department of correctional services said. The search was part of the department’s annual Operation Vala security campaign, which resulted in numerous unauthorised items being confiscated..
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Pietermaritzburg mortuary mess:- workers return to work after arrests
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The Fort Napier workers had been on a go-slow since November. They have been demanding a wage increase, back pay and better working conditions.
Seventeen employees of the Fort Napier Medico Legal Mortuary in Pietermaritzburg, who were arrested on Monday, were released with a warning on Tuesday. They were arrested after the Department of Health issued an ultimatum to workers to return to work or face arrest.
Department of Health spokesperson Ncumisa Mafunda said that on Tuesday, 16 forensic pathology staff members from Gale Street Medico Legal Mortuary in Durban had also been arrested. According to National Education, Health and Allied Workers’ Union (Nehawu) provincial secretary Phakama Ndunakazi, they were released the same day.
Mortuary workers demand better pay
The Fort Napier workers had been on a go-slow since November. They have been demanding a wage increase, back pay and better working conditions.
“The 17 employees were release
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Durban beachfront still in disrepair ahead of holiday rush
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With Durban preparing to receive millions of visitors over the festive season, many of its beachfront showers are not working.
Njabulo Zondi, who works along the promenade as a sand sculptor, said they had not been operational for a few months.
“It’s the festive now and these showers must be working,” he said.
Zondi said he went to the beach at least three times a week and used water from the showers for his sculptures and after taking a swim.
Pensioner Robert Sinner, who also frequents the beachfront, said of the two sets of showers at North Beach, only two showers from one set were working.
“Those showers haven’t been working for nine months, and three months ago they started leaking water. When I enquire, I am told the spares to fix them are imported from overseas,” Sinner said, adding that the beachfront was in a bad state.
“At least three times this year salt water made its way into the freshwater taps. Local clubs had to buy bottle
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R7 billion Durban upgrade project in harbor stopped due to fraud
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A large part of the upgrading project of the Durban Harbor’s container terminal has been discontinued due to alleged tender fraud. In addition, there is apparently also shining BEE and conspiracy between Transnet employees and suppliers. An independent forensic investigation is currently underway in the companies to whom tenders were granted. An Italian company, CMC..
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