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KZN company and UJ students win the dtic Furniture Design Competition: A KwaZulu-Natal company and a trio of University of Johannesburg students romped home with top honours in the national Furniture Design Competition hosted by the Department of Trade, Industry and …
Sharks name Dick Muir, Lwazi Mvovo as new academy coaches: The Sharks have confirmed that former players Lwazi Mvovo and Dick Muir are among four new academy coaches at the KwaZulu-Natal franchise.
Fire Addington Hospital management and blacklist lift contractors, IFP urges KZN health department: The IFP in KwaZulu-Natal is furious that the provincial health department spent almost R2.5m to fix faulty lifts at Addington Hospital in Durban.
Finance MEC tables ‘bleak’ budget: Investments in infrastructure has been prioritised as the government seeks to trigger economic revival and create much needed job opportunities in KwaZulu-Natal.
South African played key role in understanding coronavirus variant: One year into the COVID-19 pandemic, the world has seen death, economic hardship and anxiety on an unprecedented scale. But this tapestry of suffering is threaded through with self-sacrifice, courage …
Providing an online marketplace for emerging farmers – Zamokuhle Thwala, Agricool CEO: Seeing how hard it is for farmers to grow a businesses, Zamokuhle Thwala set up Agricool, an online marketplace linking farmers and buyers to markets.
Benni McCarthy’s AmaZulu out to improve on dismal away Chippa record: Benni McCarthy’s AmaZulu will be away to Chippa United at the Sisa Dukashe Stadium in their DStv Premiership match on Wednesday, 10 March.
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Quick Durban KwaZulu-Natal Fact: In June 2007 the KZN parliament passed the Prevention of Slums Bill in the Provincial Parliament. The Bill compels landowners to evict shackdwellers, on the threat of arrest and criminalises resistance to evictions. The provincial Department of Housing, that brought the Bill to the Provincial Parliament, has repeatedly stated that ‘the slums will be cleared by 2010 in KwaZulu-Natal’. The Bill has been heavily criticised by academics, human rights organisations and civil society. The shack dwellers’ movement Abahlali baseMjondolo is planning mass mobilising against the Bill and is also taking the matter to the Constitutional Court with support from a pro bono legal centre.
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