From hustling on the streets to recovery: a young man’s triumph over drugs

Harm reduction centre succeeds where rehabs often fail

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Feature | 19 December 2024

From caps to needles: Durban’s whoonga drug culture is changing

People who use heroin in Durban are increasingly switching from smoking to injecting, causing public health concerns

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News | 3 December 2024

Life is tough in Tin Town

“When it is raining, we spend our nights standing up”

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Brief | 2 December 2024

Hundreds left homeless after shack fire at one of Durban’s oldest informal settlements

About 150 shacks at Kenville informal settlement were gutted on Wednesday afternoon

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Brief | 28 November 2024

Durban families abandoned in 2010 World Cup transit camp

The eThekwini municipality says there is no budget to help residents of Zamani transit camp

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Brief | 28 November 2024

Homeless conference hears harrowing stories of street life

The 8th National Homeless Conversation was held in Durban this week

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News | 22 November 2024

NERSA officials forced to call off electricity tariff hearing

Hundreds of Durban residents showed up at the venue on Thursday but the room could only host about 100 people.

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Brief | 21 November 2024

Workers have slept outside City Hall for a month, hoping to get jobs back

Their contracts were terminated in July and the eThekwini municipality says it is only considering applicants 35 or younger

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Brief | 21 November 2024

Five years of water shortages in KZN township

Residents take legal action

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Brief | 20 November 2024

Over a thousand RDP homes built in 2019 still without tap water

Human Rights Commission found significant backlogs in water supply at uMzinyathi District municipality, KwaZulu-Natal

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Brief | 19 November 2024

EThekwini faces backlash over last-minute invites to homeless workshop

The invite was a “sop to inclusivity and disrespectful” to stakeholders and homeless people, says Raymond Perrier of the Denis Hurley Centre

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News | 16 November 2024

Commission confirms probe into Magistrate Blose’s appointment

Blose was once an accused in a high profile corruption matter

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Law | 15 November 2024

Durban police brutality case heads to trial after years of delays

The trial of 14 SAPS officers for the death-in-custody of Regan Naidoo in 2018 has been set down for June 2025

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News | 14 November 2024

KwaZulu-Natal education department fails to pay crèches

The department confirmed there is a grant backlog but declined to give details

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News | 13 November 2024

Ian Blose was suspended as an attorney in 2022. Yet he is still a practising magistrate

He was also charged in the 2010 “Amigos” corruption case

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Feature | 8 November 2024

Sewage flows in streets as KZN township faces water crisis

For six months Sithembile township in Glencoe has been struggling with water shortages

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Brief | 7 November 2024