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Yasantha Naidoo has used words and facts to help reflect the story of the day, week and hour for more than 20 years. She is based in Durban.
No incidents of violence and looting during June 30 march in Durban, but shops in some suburbs were ransacked on Tuesday night
A massive clean-up operation began at the Durban drive-in site, which had housed about 20,000 Malawian nationals, while about 400 people awaited transportation to Musina, Limpopo
King Misuzulu kaZwelithini fully supports the constitutional right of citizens to protest but would never condone violence or attacks on any individual
Tensions are running high at an informal settlement in Pietermaritzburg where a Malawian man was allegedly stoned to death and others beaten
Successfully repatriated Malawians say they feel safe after the ‘life-threatening’ situations they experienced in South Africa
Police fired stun grenades at a group of Malawian nationals who allegedly turned on home affairs officials at the encampment in Sherwood Park in Durban on Wednesday.
Two first-time entrants in this year's 99th edition of the Comrades Marathon are an athlete who was in a serious car crash in March and a runner who ran 100km in less than six hours
The right to keep a pet at the luxury Zimbali eco-estate has split residents and triggered a governance fight and two high court challenges
In keeping with his stance of protecting the earth, the body of Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu was returned to dust by aquamation, an environmentally-friendly process using water instead of fire only.
Social media was abuzz with the sighting of a large, travelling body of light on Saturday night.
Several groups marched to Durban's high court on Monday, where they burnt their masks in protest against what they deem as state control.
Jackie Shandu, the convener of a coalition of civic groups under the banner #JusticeForPhoenixMassacreVictims, is expected to appear in the Durban magistrate’s court on Tuesday.
As temperatures dipped below freezing point throughout the country, one tourism establishment in the southern Drakensberg was delighted to awaken to a winter wonderland.
A line of snaking trucks and impatient sedans around Peacevale on the N3, where police stood guard as clean-up teams poured sand over the fiery remnants of protests, was the only snag to our road trip on Friday.
Water tankers, municipal offices and a fresh market on the KwaZulu-Natal south coast were set alight and vandalised on Monday morning.
