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

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

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

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

Promised land is a battleground: inside a Cato Manor informal settlement

Murder and fear stalk eKhenana shack dwellers

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Feature | 22 October 2024

Seventh postponement in Durban police brutality case

The trial into the death in custody of Regan Naidoo in 2018 has still not begun, this time because of a complaint before the Legal Practice Council

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News | 21 October 2024

Public Works workers picket through the night in Durban

They want jobs after their contracts were terminated in July

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Brief | 17 October 2024

Durban picketers demand accessible mental health services

About 100 people protested outside the city hall to mark World Mental Health Day on Thursday.

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Brief | 10 October 2024

Women dig their own pipeline after years of frustration with eThekwini water supply

Many families in Matikwe north of Durban were left out when pipes were installed

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News | 9 October 2024

Durban residents without water for eight years picket at city hall

Standpipes in ward 105 have been dry since 2016

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Brief | 4 October 2024

Eight years without running water in eThekwini

Water trucks come to villages on the municipality’s rural outskirts twice a month

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News | 26 September 2024