Category: South Africa

Durban – The Democratic Nursing Organisation of South Africa (Denosa) is calling on government to prioritise clearing routes to hospitals and clinics across the province. Denosa said on Thursday that hundreds of residents were in desperate need of healthcare. They added many facilities had been affected by the heavy floods on the province and access […]

Johannesburg – OUTA’s Wayne Duvenage said that it was crucial that the state worked to recover taxpayer funds in addition to criminally prosecuting the looters. On Wednesday, the Special Tribunal ruled in the Special Investigating Unit (SIU)’s favour to include five additional entities and individuals in civil litigation that it has launched to recover the […]

Johannesburg – As KwaZulu-Natal residents count the costs of the damage to homes caused by the deadly floods, mop-up operations are underway on Thursday morning while the South African Weather Service is warning more rainfall forecast for the long weekend could set back recovery efforts. Residents are evacuating their homes, trying salvage what they can […]

Durban – The death toll in the province of KwaZulu Natal has reached more than 250, after devastating floods wreaked havoc in the area. Local authorities are calling for a state of disaster to be declared, after some areas saw months worth of rain fall in one day. Officials have called it “one of the […]

Johannesburg Eskom announced that there will be continuous stage 2 blackouts until 5am on Friday. According to the power utility, the extension is necessary as additional units have failed and the continued shortage of generation capacity. There have been delays in returning to service three generation units at Camden Power Station and two units at […]

Durban – uMgeni Water says eThekwini residents will probably experience an interruption of water supply. The utility said the heavy rains have caused substantial damage to infrastructure. The Durban Heights Water Treatment Works is unable to transfer enough water to reservoirs. As a result, uMgeni Water said it is unable to meet the full demand […]

Durban – Over 500 MTN sites are the latest casualty of flooding in KwaZulu-Natal. The sites are down due to infrastructure damage and power outages caused by the flash floods. It’s reported that twenty people have died. Property, vehicles and other infrastructure have been severely damaged by floods in Durban and other parts of KwaZulu-Natal. […]

Johannesburg – Eskom has announced that it will implement stage 2 power cuts from 5pm on Tuesday. The power utility says this is due to a continued shortage of generation capacity. These power cuts will be suspended at 5am on Wednesday.    

Durban – ANC KwaZulu-Natal chair, Sihle Zikalala, said that the party’s leadership must call Zweli Mkhize to order. On Monday, Zikalala complained that Mkhize had been undermining the current leadership of the province by meeting and addressing certain caucuses in KZN as they held their regional conferences. Videos of Mkhize circulated on social media over […]

Durban – As KwaZulu-Natal ANC chair Sihle Zikalala blasts national leaders for intervening in regional political affairs, the newly-elected eThekwini top brass see nothing wrong with it. Newly-elected ANC regional deputy, Nkosenhle Madlala, disagreed with Zikalala that national leaders addressing conference delegates was problematic. Madlala argued that those seen with a caucus associated with corruption-accused […]