South Africa|Kwazulu-Natal

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Thousands of households without running water for three weeks in eThekwini

Municipality has still not repaired damage caused by an electrical fire at the Ntuzuma Pump Station

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Brief | 19 April 2023

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A year after the floods, the Gumbi family are still hoping to find the bodies of their children

“We have accepted that they are gone,” says member of Durban family

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News | 11 April 2023

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Children are dying from izinyoka electricity while Tongaat families wait to be housed

Four years after construction started, not a single house has been completed in R120-million Umbhayi project

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News | 6 April 2023

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Cleaners in a Durban township say they use their own money to fix broken toilets

The eThekwini Municipality says it will investigate claims that janitors don’t have materials and that most of the toilets in the settlement are broken

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Brief | 4 April 2023

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Living conditions at “transit camp” in eThekwini Municipality are inhumane, say residents

Camp was intended as temporary housing but 11 years later, many families are still there

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News | 4 April 2023

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Durban Centre for the Disabled to be sold

KZN Public Work says the occupants of the Enduduzweni Centre will keep their livelihoods

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News | 30 March 2023

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KwaZulu-Natal school closed after teachers threatened

School in Nquthu to re-open on Monday with new security measures

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Brief | 24 March 2023

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Nearly a year after the floods, eThekwini villagers are still hoping for help

Inanda families say they are being ignored

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News | 24 March 2023

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Zuma’s attack on the media won’t work

We stand with Karyn Maughan

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GroundView | 23 March 2023

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Nearly 600 families at a temporary relocation area in Durban share eight toilets

eThekwini Municipality says its water and sanitation unit is busy with repairs

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News | 17 March 2023

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Parents of children with special needs boycott Durban schools

Parents complain that the KwaZulu-Natal education department is neglecting special schools

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News | 15 March 2023

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Call for government to save Durban’s contaminated rivers

“Toxic” levels of E. coli will require national government intervention, say water activists

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News | 27 February 2023

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Gandhi’s legacy in South Africa threatened by lack of government interest and dwindling funds

Gandhi Museum and the Phoenix Settlement he founded no longer have any major donors

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News | 17 February 2023

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Glebelands Eight trial: Hitmen handed life sentences

Judge Chili said that the group operated as a “law unto themselves”

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Brief | 17 February 2023

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Ladysmith substation repair could take up to two months to complete

Some areas of the town suffered a nine-day power outage

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News | 15 February 2023

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Phoenix still unsettled by 2021 unrest

Collapsing basic services are crippling the town’s attempts to rebuild community

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Feature | 1 February 2023