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Massmart surges over 8%, as turnaround gains traction: Shares in JSE-listed retail and wholesale group Massmart surged 8.56% on Tuesday to close at R68, after the group reported in a Sens sales update that it has reached R1.3 billion of its R1.9 billion …
DA mayoral candidate in first fully controlled KZN municipality already has 100-day plan: The Democratic Alliance won its first outright majority in KwaZulu-Natal with the announcement on Tuesday that it had claimed victory in uMngeni Local Municipality, where the ANC has been desperately …
DA wins uMngeni in KZN outright – John Steenhuisen: DA secures a historic first KZN municipality as it wins uMngeni outright. . In a historic first, the DA has won, outright, the municipality of uMngeni in the KwaZul …
A coal mine, an unsolved murder: a woman’s fight for her mother’s legacy: Entornointeligente.com / A year after Fikile Ntshangase was shot six times in her home in South Africa’s KwaZulu-Natal province, her daughter has seen no justice It was 7:30pm on October 22 last year …
Local ELECTIONS: Just 52% of KZN voters go to the polls: Local government elections were peaceful, free and fair in KwaZulu-Natal Premier Sihle Zikalala said on Tuesday.
DA wins uMngeni Municipality, its first victory in KZN: DURBAN – The Democratic Alliance (DA) has announced that it won the uMngeni Local Municipality, the first ever to be won by the party in the KwaZulu-Natal province. The party had been gunning for this …
ANC emerging as the biggest loser in KZN — but it is still early days: If the ANC ever felt invincible, the people of KwaZulu-Natal are showing the party that it is not too powerful to be booted out of power.
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Quick Durban KwaZulu-Natal Fact: The “Cuban Hat” and its neighbour “The Nest” were two very popular drive in locales situated on the then Lower Marine Parade in Durban. They were especially popular in the late 50s / early 60s when own car transport became an essential must have amongst young adults. These were the days when young adult life changed considerably when freedom of movement, the changed music and habits of the time and there was a general improvement in living standards. Initially any form of car was better than none because as the saying was, it enabled you to get to “where the action was”. Action being where parties, socials, “sessions” and get togethers. The fact that you could pick up your mates or girl friends and go together as a group made life good. Parents of the time had to adjust to the times because they were brought up when stricter parental control was generally enforced. The days of dates being, sitting in the lounge with the parents were no longer and life was now centred on getting out and about and mixing with your own age group.
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