Author: Sandile Motha

Water
News

Tender corruption sinks Phake’s water project

The department of water and sanitation must be hauled over the coals for the failed R18-million water project, which residents claimed was riddled with corruption,... Read more.
State bank
News, Politics

SARB reform to pave way for state bank – Cosatu

The umpteenth call by the largest labour federation for the creation of a state bank will come to nothing unless sweeping governance changes are made to the South... Read more.
Implats mine deaths
Business

New Melmoth mine not welcomed by all stakeholders

A plan to establish an iron-ore mine in the foothills of Melmoth and eShowe in KwaZulu-Natal is now in motion after screeching to standstill about nine years ago.... Read more.
Phoenix
News

2021 Phoenix massacre turned into political football … again

The EFF in KwaZulu-Natal legislature has tabled a motion in which it wants a committee set up to probe what could have led to the demise of 36 people in the Indian... Read more.
KwaZulu-Natal is
News

Feared construction cartel runs amok in KwaZulu-Natal

A notorious business formation that often employs hostile tactics to demand lucrative government tenders in KwaZulu-Natal is running amok. Just after it emerged... Read more.
ANC and IFP
News

Royal house shenanigans ignite hostilities between IFP and ANC

The alleged tiff between AmaZulu King MisuZulu kaZwelithini and his traditional prime minister Prince Mangosuthu Buthelezi, which has been playing out in the public... Read more.
Maritzburg United
Soccer

Maritzburg United dealt a financial blow

Maritzburg United, whose hopes of remaining in the elite Premier Soccer League (PSL) status were dashed by Cape Town Spurs, have been dealt another heavy blow. It... Read more.
eThekwini mayor Mxolisi Kaunda
Politics

ANC gamesmanship frustrates intervention to rescue eThekwini

The national government’s Section 154 expert support intervention in troubled eThekwini metro has turned into a political football with allegations that the ANC... Read more.
Chiawelo clinic staff in Soweto robbed at gunpoint
Education

Pupils at receiving end as murder spirals out of control in Wentworth

Wentworth in Durban has become a war zone with the sound of gunfire and random shootings a daily occurrence. Fearful residents lamented that they were at the mercy... Read more.