Lesley Korte, 51, said although the property was extensively damaged, that was not as annoying as the poor response they received from the municipality

This was the second time that the underground water pipe, which runs through a vacant plot, burst this month

On Wednesday workers who had been fired and those who were given final written warnings returned to work

At peak times, traffic volumes can increase to well over 2000 vehicles per hour.

A three-year-old boy sustained a gunshot wound to the leg and was conveyed to hospital for medical attention.

A Clare Estate resident, 59, complained that eThekwini Municipality never stuck to the load shedding schedule but instead “just do their own thing”.

Durbanites woke up to incessant rain on Thursday that floods roads and caused extensive damage in various areas.

Eskom said it would continue with rolling blackouts suppressing up to 2 000 MW of demand on a staggered basis until 11 pm to avoid collapsing the strained national grid.

Kahlik was cycling to a mosque along Daleview Road when Sherizaad Lutchman, Terino King and Owen Naidoo, all 18 at the time, drove past.

On the last day of the 16 Days of activism campaign Against Gender-Based Violence a man stabbed a woman, known to her, to death in Montclair.

Six people have died, five of them from the same family, following a shooting at a homestead in Mpumalanga township in eThekwini municipality, police said.

The EFF and its leader Julius Malema have accused the government of using apartheid-era legislation to silence the firebrand politician and stop him from fighting for the landless.

All eyes are on President Cyril Ramaphosa after he blamed wet coal and sabotage without giving a clear plan on ending load shedding.

Hospitality industry hit hardest by blackouts

The DA rates each MEC in the KZN government. At the end of last year it handed the KZN government an average of ‘E’ for its performance.

National Treasury and the Public Service and Administration Departments have been taken to task over two different thresholds for ministerial cars, R700K and R800K.