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Exclusive auction – Anger as Durban car auction reserved for township blacks only

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Durban – ETHEKWINI Municipality’s attempts to improve the spending power of Africans – under the age of 35 – by excluding Indians and coloureds from an official car auction drew widespread criticism this week.

The event was officially dubbed a radical economic transformation (RET) auction. It involved the selling off of various used municipal vehicles from the city fleet site and was advertised in a newspaper which stipulated that it would only allow the participation of young people from townships as well as military veterans.

The event stemmed from a promise made during a conference on RET earlier this year, where the eThekwini Municipality said it would – through business associations – accelerate interventions to achieve “economic emancipation and equality” for previously marginalised businesses.

As a result, only those registered on the National Military Veterans’ database, and those under the age of 35 who lived in townships or communities under
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Durban beach-front degeneration exposé – “Guess Carte Blanche’s camera footage is blowing it out of proportion then” is the typical response from ANC Mayor’s office!

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Durban – The city’s Golden Mile – stretching 6km along the beachfront from Blue Lagoon to uShaka – came under the spotlight this week in a Carte Blanche exposé showing how drug addicts and vagrants have hijacked some of the city’s most valuable sites.

With about 1million visitors expected to descend on the city this festive season, it is expecting to receive at least a R2.4billion cash injection over December and January.

However, the investigative journalism TV series reported that robberies, stabbings, drug dealings and pollution threaten to scare away visitors.

The programme’s recent feature showed how heroin needles and shards of broken glass from bottles smashed to make crack pipes can be found on the sandy shores, alleys between hotels and street corners meters away from the Golden Mile.

But the city says that it is making a concerted effort to ensure that beaches are properly maintained, and that it is speaking to NGOs about ways to deal with th
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Lack of empathy causes disturbed patient being burned after being locked up in solitary confinement at Wentworth Hospital

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A mentally disturbed patient was found with burns after being locked alone in a ward in the Wentworth Hospital in Durban, said the IVP.

Ncamisile Nkwanyana, the IVP’s health spokeswoman in KwaZulu-Natal, said urgent action should be taken against medical staff who neglect mental-disturbed patients in health care institutions.

“The neglect of such patients is a serious concern. Misconduct, incompetence and negligence do not belong in our healthcare system and there must be drastic action against anyone convicted of it. ”

Nkwanyana believes the nurses concerned should be suspended and their actions are being investigated, and if found guilty, they must be fired because “a lack of empathy may not be tolerated in our healthcare system”.

She says the IFP is concerned about the absence of professionalism in health care institutions and observes a collapse of the professional healthcare sector, especially in public institutions.

The IFP considers it important t
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Storm in a teacup – Durban prof in hot water after referring to himself as the zoo keep and his staff as zoo animals

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Storm in a teacup - Durban prof in hot water after referring to himself as the zoo keep and his staff as zoo animals

A Durban professor and head of state hospital are currently being investigated due to alleged comments he made. He allegedly called his staff zoo animals and referred to himself as the zoo keeper. His name may not be announced until he has been charged, and the possibility that he will lose his post is not..
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Terrorists cowardly beat an old man to death in KZN, he was found gagged and his hands and legs bound – Crime is totally out of control

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Murdered pensioner found beaten, gagged and his hands and legs bound, KZN

The family of a murdered pensioner hope that those responsible for his death will be arrested soon. Christopher Munro Biggs, 73, was found beaten, gagged and his hands and legs bound in his Manor Gardens home earlier today. It is believed that his body had been lying in one of the bedrooms for two days…
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Spooragentskap Prasa het alle spoor bedrywighede in Natal gestop alvorens veiligheid van personeel en passasiers nie gewaarborg kan word nie

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Die spooragentskap Prasa het alle spoor bedrywighede in Natal gestaak na vandalisme en meer as R8 miljoen se skade by die Umlazi stasie deur meer as 1 000 oproermakers, terwyl vier voertuie in Durban aan die brand gesteek is.

Volgens plaaslike regering woordvoerders is daar ‘n element van misdaad, vandalisme, diefstal, trein kapings en aanranding van personeel in Natal.

Alvorens die veiligheid van personeel en passasiers nie gewaarborg kan word nie, sal daar geen spoor bedrywighede in Natal wees nie.

Deur: Die Vryburger

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Durban hijackers flee with 4-year-old child

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A case of carjacking has been opened after hijackers pointed a firearm at a 45-year-old man and fled with his 4-year-old child on Saturday morning.

The man, who was understood to be driving a Golf 7, was hijacked when he had stopped at a traffic light in New Germany, on the corner of Dinkelman and Shepstone Road. Four armed men pointed him with firearms, police said.

Police said they were unable to disclose the identity of the child or her father “at this stage”.

Provincial police spokesperson Colonel Thembeka Mbele said the incident happened at about 7.15am on Saturday.

“A 45-year-old male was with his four-year-old daughter in his VW Golf stationary at the traffic lights on the corner of Dinkelman and Shepstone Roads when a vehicle with four occupants stopped next him, pointed at him with firearms. They allegedly forced him out of his vehicle and sped off with his daughter inside,” said Mbele.

The police said no arrests had been made.

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Brave mom fights off barbaric knife-wielding attacker during farm invasion

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Brave mom fights off barbaric knife-wielding attacker during farm invasion

In a desperate bid to save her daughter during a farm attack‚ a Darnall woman flung herself at a knife-wielding attacker in the early hours of Monday morning. It is understood that the woman‚ living on a sugarcane farm north of Durban‚ had been roused by the screams of her daughter. The girl had been..
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Robot-aided surgery now available in Eastern Cape Province

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The first robot-assisted surgeries to treat prostate cancer in the Eastern Cape were performed by Netcare Greenacres urologists Dr Hannes Brummer and Dr Johan Coetzee this week following the installation of the Da Vinci Si robotic surgical system at the hospital.

Similar robotic systems have been installed at Netcare hospitals in Cape Town, Johannesburg and Durban.

Coetzee and Brummer have been training in South Africa and Europe to perform robot-assisted surgery.

Netcare hospital division managing director Jacques du Plessis said that after robotic surgery systems had been introduced in other provinces there had been an increased number of referrals from other provinces.

“We have now brought the technology and capacity for robotic-assisted procedures to the Eastern Cape.

“We identified a need for the intricate and highly complex interventions the Da Vinci Si system enables trained surgeons to achieve,” he said.

Netcare Greenacres Hospital general man
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N2 protest: Burning tyres and confusion brings Durban drivers to a halt

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Durban drivers on the N2 were left stranded in a massive traffic backlog on Tuesday morning. Protesters blocked part of the busy highway with burning tyres just one day after rubbish was dumped in a similar area.

The N2 Durban bound was the area in question on Tuesday morning. A similar incident also took place in the uMbongintwini area.

“Police have an idea of who could have done this and arrests are expected to be made. Tyres were placed across all the lanes and then set alight. This has caused a severe traffic backlog. Vehicles had to be diverted from the N2 in Isipingo onto the M4,” Sewpersad said.

With a blockage of that scale, drivers had been attempting to utilise the emergency lanes to get past the tyres, an act police have urged motorists not to partake in.

When the fire department arrives on the scene, it has been unable to use the emergency lanes to put out the fire and remove the debris.

At this stage, police have admitted that they are n
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Burgemeester in Durban se assistent trek salaris van bykans R50 000 sonder enige kwalifikasies – Aaitsa maar dit is al te lekker!

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Dit het aan die lig gekom dat die Durbanse burgemeester se “assistent” ‘n salaris van bykans R50 000 per maand verdien terwyl sy geen kwalifikasies het om as senior bestuurder aangestel te word nie.

Thabisile Ncayiyane is twee jaar gelede as huishoudelike werker aangestel maar het ‘n senior bestuurder se salaris verdien. Sy was na bewering die burgemeester, Zandile Gumede, se “assistent” wat na sy behoeftes moes omsien.

‘n Nuusgroep het in ‘n opvolg ondersoek bevind dat bykans 7 000 spookwerkers in diens is.

Xolani Vilani, die administratiewe bestuurder by indiensneming kon by ondersoek nie kontrakte van 71 werkers toon nie, en hulle lone wissel van R500 tot R2 000 per dag in plaas van die R130 wat die voorgeskrewe tarief is.

Die vraag word nou gevra in wie se sakke daardie geld werklik verdwyn.

Deur: Die Vryburger

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Uitlanders moet waai – Xenofobiese aanvalle in Durban Durban

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Die binnelanders in Natal het die buitelandse winkeleienaars kennis gegee dat hulle teen Donderdag hulle winkels moet sluit of hul gaan aangeval word.

Die inwoners van Durban voel dat die uitlanders ‘n bedreiging inhou vir plaaslike besighede.

In 2015 het ‘n soortgelyke dreigement gelei tot die dood van ses uitlanders en meer as 2 000 is uit hul woon plekke gejaag.

Die sogenaamde xenofobiese aanvalle is glo ‘n groot bekommernis vir die regering, maar kenners wys daarop dat as die landsgrense oopgegooi word vir mense vanuit Afrika en Sjina, die gevolge van die oop grens beleid nie sal uitbly nie.

Deur: Die Vryburger

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Explosives found at KZN mosque where Egyptian attackers slit worshipers throats

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Police were called to the Imam Hussein mosque in the South African province of KwaZulu Natal after an explosive was discovered Sunday night on the premises, local media portals have reported.

The mosque located in Durban is incidentally the same facility that was attacked last week with Egyptian male assailants slitting the throats of worshipers gathered for the midday prayers.

Of the three people whose throats were slit, one is said to have died whiles the two others are in critical condition as per the last reports.

Even though police have yet to make any arrests, Cyril Ramaphosa on Sunday waded into the issue whiles sending his Ramadan message to Muslims.

“Ramaphosa’s thoughts particularly go out to the Muslim community of Verulam, KwaZulu-Natal, who suffered violence and tragedy in a place of worship several days ago.

“The President expects that the perpetrators will be brought to book and that the community of Verulam will be able to experienc
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Protests close Shallcross road

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Durban- Motorists had to seek alternative routes after Link Road in Shallcross remained closed on Monday following violent protests by residents of the Bottlebrush Informal Settlement.

Superintendent Parboo Sewpersad, Durban Metro police spokesperson, said the situation was tense and for the safety of the public and motorists the road had to be closed
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Protesting MK vets grind Durban traffic to a standstill

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Durban – A group of MK Military veterans squared off with police and Metro Police officials near the mayor’s office demanding an audience with Mayor Zandile Gumede over jobs.

The stand-off has resulted in the city centre being gridlocked during peak traffic on Tuesday as the vet protested outside City Hall on Durban’s main street, Pixley Ka Seme (West).
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