Call for collaboration and ethical leadership to fight fraud and corruption
Advocate Rodney de Kock emphasises the importance of collaboration and ethical leadership in the fight against fraud and corruption at the recent Anti-Fraud and ...
End wars or wars will be the end of mankind
LETTER: We live in a fractured world that is breaking up in slow motion. The many gruesome conflicts and blood letting continue unabated. It is a sad fact that the ...
IFP councillor lashes Indians for voting for DA
In a hard-hitting letter, he penned to the suburb’s residents on Monday, IFP councillor Jonathan Annipen said he was disappointed that after the IFP had put in a ...
Honour Madiba’s promises, king demands
Nelson Mandela and FW de Klerk made important pledges about Zulu royal powers, which the monarch wanted to be honoured even if it involved an international court. ...
DA warns against ‘marriage of convenience’ moves
Reacting to the collapse of marriage between the IFP and ANC within 24 hours in Umvoti Local Municipality, DA leader John Steenhuisen said the marriage was doomed, ...
Call not to attend king’s imbizo
In an open letter issued by the KwaZulu-Natal House of Traditional Leaders on behalf of amakhosi, the KwaZulu-Natal House of Traditional Leaders called on King Misuzulu ...
Zululand Municipality official languishes at home again as municipality appeals
Kabo Nene's excitement at returning to work ...
IFP and ANC marriage to co-govern Umvoti Local Municipality collapses within 24 hours
IFP president Velenkosini Hlabisa shockingly announced the reversal of the agreement, saying it did not have the blessing of the national leadership.
IFP and ANC marriage likely illegal, analyst says
Advocate Mpumelelo Zikalala, who weighed in on the dramatic election of the IFP’s Zamani Malembe as the new mayor and the ANC’s Ntombi Ngubane as the new speaker ...
IFP and ANC make history and set to co-govern uMvoti Municipality for the ‘citizens’
Two bitter political rivals, the IFP and ANC, teamed up in uMvoti Local Municipality in Greytown and removed Abantu Batho Congress mayor Philani PG Mavundla and ...
Zuma disqualified from seat in Parliament
The Constitutional Court concurred with the Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC) that section 47(1)(e) bars former president Jacob Zuma from holding public ...
I’m being removed for demanding a Zulu state: Mavundla
Former eThekwini deputy mayor Philani Mavundla will face a motion of no-confidence in a special council meeting convened by the KwaZulu-Natal Co-operative Governance ...
‘Unfairly’ fired Zululand Municipality director returns to work after court dismisses municipality’s appeal
Zululand District Municipality Community Services director, Faith Kabo Nene, who claimed that her dismissal was influenced by mayor Thulasizwe Buthelezi because ...
ABC lashes out at ANC and IFP councillors for putting their interests above Umvoti citizens
Failure to pass the budget means that the Umvoti Local Municipality might not be able to pay the salaries of the staff and deliver services to the people of Umvoti. ...
ANC banking on eThekwini votes
ANC regional election co-ordinator Mthandeni Dlungwana told the Daily News that out of 1. 9 million registered voters in eThekwini alone, the party was adamant that ...
Parties oppose new control acts
Political parties have expressed scepticism at the calls by provincial police commissioner Lieutenant-General Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi for new gun control and liquor acts. ...
Six gunmen die after shooting at police
Crime analyst Dr Johan Burger said that if the police warned the suspects before pulling the trigger and the suspects ignored the warnings, then the police should ...
DNA holds up crèche child rape case: cops
Facing pressure from the family and the Newlands East community who demanded an immediate arrest following a child’s alleged rape at a crèche, KZN police commissioner ...
We need new gun and liquor laws to curb crime – KZN police chief
KwaZulu-Natal police commissioner Lieutenant-General Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi has called on the public to vote for leaders who will change policing laws to enable the ...
I’m still MK Party spokesperson — Nhlamulo Ndhela
Clarifying the confusion, Nhlamulo Ndhlela said after seeing people discussing his departure on social media platforms, he investigated the origin of the information ...
Girls are not keeping their virginity for marriage, says cultural expert
Cultural expert Dr Nomagugu Ngobese said it was a myth that maidens keep themselves pure for marriage and do the reed dance expecting to be chosen by the king.
Black business body condemns killing of guard
It is alleged that about five armed men entered a construction site, disarmed three guards, and locked them in a room before ransacking the property. The company ...
‘IEC jumped the gun on Zuma’
The Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC) may lose its case based on procedural grounds.
IFP-DA trade political blows with just two weeks to elections
The fight was apparently sparked by the DA councillor Swelakhe Shelembe’s refusal to support a proposal by the IFP-led Zululand District Municipality to write-off ...
eThekwini’s crack new investigator is an ex-Hawks officer
Jimmy Ngcobo, a former policeman under the defunct Scorpions and Directorate for Priority Crimes Investigations (DPCI) commonly known as the Hawks, resumed his new ...