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..
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Armed gangs now target Health Care centres – Five armed men rob Durban kidney patients undergoing dialysis
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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..
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Durban municipal official admits to squandering R36m of taxpayers money in toilet tender saga
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A senior eThekwini municipality official has pleaded guilty to squandering R36m of taxpayers’ money by allegedly approving payments to four companies in connection with a toilet tender. Now, in exchange for his guilty plea, the city’s deputy head for sanitation operations, Sibusiso Vilane, has recommended that he either be suspended for 10 days without pay..
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University of Natal in Serious Crisis – students are setting vehicles on fire and destroying infrastructure built up by the former government – all classes are suspended until further notice
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All classes at the University of Natal were suspended until further notice the many protest actions of students. A vehicle was set on fire during the protest and peaceful lecturers and learners felt unsafe on campus. Academic activities have been characterized by ongoing violence, protests and property damage in recent years. On Monday, Wits University..
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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..
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Victim of armed robbery and hijacking fights back, shoots and kills suspected robber
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A Durban driver, who was being robbed with a knife to his throat, fought back and killed one of his assailants, police said on Monday. Police spokesperson Lieutenant Colonel Thulani Zwane said the driver was accosted in Pinetown, just before 07:00, on the corner of Anderson and Josiah Gumede roads. “It is alleged that one..
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