The World Bank plans to get more power from the noxious fumes emitted from landfills - and Durban has been chosen as the first site for the project in South Africa. ...
Home Affairs Minister Mangosuthu Buthelezi, in his capacity as the traditional prime minister of the Zulu nation, will officially "hand over" a R5-million palace ...
The European Union will pump R350-million into Durban's municipal coffers in an attempt to help with the rejuvenation of five "potential economic activity areas" ...
The police should be the major force behind the fight against crime. Right? Well, actually notm according to United Nations delegates at a national workshop on how ...
A contract by Durban metro police with a company based in South Korea has come under review from the city's new police chief. At the moment, the contract states ...
The eThekwini municipality is teetering on the brink of a messy situation with garbage filling up its dumps at "an alarming rate". At least 3 000 tons of waste is ...
Finance minister Trevor Manuel has announced a R6,4-billion windfall for local government, which will be an addition to basic local government allocation. However, ...
Residents from Cato Manor, outside Durban, are tired of the terrible smell coming from the site of the local SPCA where dead animals are incinerated daily. The ongoing ...
Fifteen thousand hard-up families, who owe the Durban unicity council millions of rands, will have some of their rental arrears wiped out and be moved from their ...
Super-fit Durban police officer Siphiwe Manzi is desperate to attend the New York Kings' martial arts championship in America to show off the feisty fighting skills ...
The eThekwini municipality is to hire about 40 top administrators - at an estimated R46-million annual cost - in a bold move to cut bureaucratic red tape holding ...
The marathon dispute over municipal wage increases and other issues is close to the finish line as highly-placed sources hinted that either of the two parties - ...
Municipal services in eThekwini are expected to come to a standstill as thousands of unicity workers take to the streets in a massive national strike to demand a ...
Plans to restructure the distribution of electricity in KwaZulu-Natal threaten to drain the coffers of Durban, much of whose income is generated through electricity ...
Strike action could disrupt the week-long African Union summit as about 11 000 workers in the Ethekwini municipal structures are set to join their colleagues countrywide ...
Durban's newly incorporated rural areas are expected to place a huge strain on this year's eThekweni unicity council budget. Taking on the new areas has expanded ...
President Thabo Mbeki is about to open a R460-million prison in KwzZulu-Natal, but the running of the super-maximum-security prison, constructed in shadowy circumstances ...
Durban's crime-fighting force has been dogged by problems that are adversely affecting service delivery, with the police facing a drastic shortage of vehicles, petrol, ...
It was not only the site of the last palace of the revered and feared founder of the Zulu nation, King Shaka. It developed into a highly industrialised, job-providing ...
Eileen Mary Whitaker, a children's welfare campaigner, ...
Journalists flying over the coast of northern KwaZulu-Natal for almost half a day received a clearer picture of the devastation caused by floods in the region.
A charge of rape has been laid against Durban Metro Police chief Vincent Ngubane by the junior Metro constable who lodged a formal grievance with the council last ...
The South African Municipal Workers' Union is demanding the suspension of Durban metro police chief, Vincent Ngubane, who is accused of sexual harassment by a junior, ...
Cape Town's international airport has recruited 14 specialist armed guards - trained in Johannesburg and equipped with body armour, sniffer dogs and sophisticated ...
The department of transport has announced that it will extend surveillance of the national routes so that patrols will run for 24 hours every day.