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..
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Durban beachfront still in disrepair ahead of holiday rush
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Wyebank family living in fear after land invaders illegally built and moved into six informal dwellings on their property last week
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Durban – A Wyebank family is living in fear after land invaders built and moved into six informal dwellings on their property last week. Gopaul Pillay, of Dahlia Road, who lives on the 2.4hectare property, which belongs to his family, said he was considering selling his portion of the land as more than 20 people..
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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..
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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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Bedrieër steel R95 miljoen wat bedoel was vir die sink van boorgate in droogte geteisterde gebied in Natal
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Hy dra die indrukwekkende name, “Prince Ishwar Ramlutchman Mabheka Zulu”en het selfs ’n mooi gebaar betoon teenoor Koning Goodwill Zwelithini op Erfenis dag iewers in Durban. Die Valke het egter nou begin met ’n ondersoek na die bewerings dat hy sowat R95 miljoen ontvang het wat bedoel is vir boorgate wat gesink moes word in..
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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..
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ANC Regime and Big Business Ignore Major Environmental Concerns Raised for Ocean Exploration and Drilling off the East Coast of SA
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In a letter to the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) for Ocean Exploration and Drilling off the East Coast of South Africa, proposed by the Italian Petroleum Company ENI, SAFFR has raised some serious Environmental Concerns which seem to be ignored. The concerns which were sent to various interested parties including, SASOL, Italian Minister for the Environment, SA..
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KwaZulu-Natal landowners do not seek land but money – no wonder prosperous farms are ruined as soon as land is transferred to black beneficiaries
KwaZulu-Natal grondeisers soek nie grond maar eerder geld- geen wonder welvarende plase gaan tot niet sodra grond oorgedra word aan swart begunstigdes
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Grond wat aan plaaslike gemeenskappe toegeken is na ‘n grond-eis is nou die fokus van ‘n twis tussen die eienaars, die staat en die Ingonyama Trust van Zwelithini. Na die grondeis toegestaan is wil die 30 eienaars van 11,000 hektaar grond, ter waarde van R3 miljard, dit verkoop aan die regering vir R760 miljoen. Dit..
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How on earth did one of Zulu king Goodwill Zwelithini’s 27 children scored a low cost government house?
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How the Zulu king’s daughter qualified for low cost government housing is currently under scrutiny. The building was reportedly meant as a “show” house for a R64 million project that will see 1,000 poor people benefit from accommodation equipped with two bedrooms, an open-plan lounge and kitchen, a bathroom and an outside water tank. Two..
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