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One hundred and seventy three (173) people have lost their lives due to COVID-19: The 173 number of deaths means that the total death in South Africa now sits at 8 539. Leading the highest contributions to today’s shocking death records is Mpumalanga with 45 deaths, followed by …
Saved from poisoning, these rare African vultures take wing again: Three critically endangered African white-backed vultures saved from poisoning last year have been released back into the wild in Zululand, South Africa. Those involved in local vulture conservation …
Bamisiwe othisha abajola nomfundi eComTech: Natal umise othisha ababili besikole Umlazi Comprehensive Technical High (ComTech), abasolwa ngokujola nomfundi okuGrade 12 kulesi sikole. Isolezwe libike ngalolu daba ngeledlule lapho abazali …
KZN MECs visit Ezakheni home after siblings perish in house fire: Natal Cogta MEC Sipho Hlomuka and Social Development MEC Nonhlanhla Khoza, paid their respects to the family of three children who were killed when a fire ripped through their home in Ezakheni last …
KZN officials suspended, criminal case opened over R30m PPE procurement: Natal Premier Sihle Zikalala revealed there had been irregular expenditure amounting to nearly R30 million for PPE and blankets.
KZN legislature speaker in spotlight over alleged excessive fuel claims for use of personal car: Natal legislature, Nontembeko Boyce, is alleged to have opted to use her personal car for official duties in order “to claim for fuel consumption three times more than that which was used” .
COVID-19 UPDATE: SA recovery rate reaches 69%: The cumulative number of confirmed COVID-19 cases is 515,862. There were 5,377 new infections. The Department of Health announced on Monday that the cumulative number of confirmed COVID-19 cases is …
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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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