ANC fires KwaZulu-Natal mayor, deputy over scandals, dubious financial deals
The provincial task team of the ANC in KwaZulu-Natal has fired the controversial mayor of the KwaDukuza local municipality and his deputy. The decision follows a... Read more.
EThekwini municipality staff repairing township roads attacked by alleged mafias
The staff of the roads department in eThekwini municipality in KwaZulu-Natal is living in fear after it has been repeatedly attacked by a group of suspected “mafias”... Read more.
Another ex-KZN CoGTA official who resigned under cloud lands top state job
Another former senior official who jumped ship when the KwaZulu-Natal department of cooperative governance and traditional affairs (CoGTA) suspended and investigated... Read more.
MEC asked to reverse decision to hire CFO who jumped ship while facing graft probe
One of the political parties that comprise the precarious KwaZulu-Natal government of provincial unity has written to Sipho Hlomuka, the ANC MEC for education, requesting... Read more.
Ingonyama Trust Board asks Sibonelo Mkhize to show acting CEO Siya Vilakazi ropes
The Ingonyama Trust Board (ITB) has appointed an interim chief executive officer (CEO) to steer the trust, tasking one of its senior board members, Inkosi Sibonelo... Read more.
ANC says Sindiso Magaqa’s death left scar while killer pleads for light sentence
The self-confessed killer of former ANC Youth League secretary-general Sindiso Magaqa has pleaded with the Pietermaritzburg High Court to be lenient on him and not... Read more.
Education department offers ex-CoGTA CFO who resigned amid graft probe a job
A former chief financial officer (CFO) who left the KwaZulu-Natal department of cooperative governance and traditional affairs (CoGTA) under a cloud earlier this... Read more.
NFP faction heads to Supreme Court to challenge party leadership
The battle for the leadership of the troubled National Freedom Party (NFP), a key political party in the KwaZulu-Natal government of provincial unity (GPU), has... Read more.
KZN family forced to exhume body of son wrongly allocated an already used grave
The crisis of full graveyards in the eThekwini municipality has led to a debacle where municipal staff allocated burial space to a grave that was already full and... Read more.
‘Excluded’ firms fight over KZN’s multi-billion school nutrition tender
The bidding process for the multi-billion rand KwaZulu-Natal schools nutrition tender has been drawn into controversy after some of the bidders claimed that officials... Read more.
