Teachers and unions slam plan to improve matric results

Nkululeko Nene|Published

A plan to improve matric results at schools that performed below average under the Umlazi district has backfired.

Woman sleeping outside ANC’s Durban offices ’is demanding an RDP house in Cornubia’

Nkululeko Nene|Published

ANC leaders in KZN have been accused of being heartless for ignoring a ...

Cultural and religious leaders rubbish polyandry conversation

Nkululeko Nene|Published

The polyandry legalisation is one of several wide-ranging proposals contained in the Green Paper, which the Department of Home Affairs has gazetted and since invited ...

Police truck hijacking result of alleged hit on inmate

Nkululeko Nene|Published

The 31-year-old man, whose name cannot be published for fear of being killed, told the Sunday Tribune that five armed men with rifles shouted his name after breaking ...

Another KZN prison official embroiled in love affair with prisoner

Nkululeko Nene|Published

The suspension of the member who cannot be named comes at a time when a female prison warden who was filmed in a sex romp with a male prisoner at Ncome Correctional ...

’Humble and hardworking’ farmer in wheelchair killed for cash

Nkululeko Nene|Published

Neil McKay, 46, of Skietrif Farm in the Midlands was described as a humble and hardworking man who was completely independent.

Meet the woman who owns a petrol station, has an MBA and is also a qualified chemical engineer

Nkululeko Nene|Published

Thandi Mathabethe-Ngxongo was so inspired by cars and the smell of gasoline that she is now the proud owner of the busy Glenwood BP fuel and service station.

KwaZulu-Natal school principal, girlfriend slain in brutal village ambush

Nkululeko Nene|Published

The killing of a KwaZulu-Natal school principal and his girlfriend has sparked fears that a ’village war’ could break out to avenge their deaths.

Mhlathuze Water hailed as one of the leading SOEs

Nkululeko Nene|Published

SUNDAY TRIBUNE: Mhlathuze Water CEO Mthokozisi Duze said the recent appointment of a chartered accountant and also choosing board members with qualifications had ...

’I was humiliated’: Hospital patient accuses guard of beating her

Nkululeko Nene|Published

A woman who was allegedly beaten by a security guard at Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Hospital has demanded justice from the Department of Health for failing to protect ...

A year of Covid-19 in SA: KZN Health MEC longs for well-deserved break

Nkululeko Nene|Published

KwaZulu-Natal's Health MEC Nomagugu Simelane-Zulu has been working non-stop since the first case in the country of a person being infected with Covid -19 was recorded ...

Another eThekwini bus driver shot dead

Nkululeko Nene|Published

Another bus driver was shot dead in an apparent ambush on Friday morning, bringing the number of killings to three in as many months. All the drivers worked for ...

Report: eThekwini metro cops deeply embedded in mire of corruption

Nkululeko Nene|Published

Metro police officers have abused the eThekwini City fleet, gone on booze-buying sprees, jaunts to Joburg without permission, and appointed friends into the metro ...

Family devastated after matriculant drowns in Umfolozi River

Nkululeko Nene|Published

Nimrod Mphathiseni Bophela was looking forward to celebrating his daughter’s matric results next week, but instead he is mourning her death.

Community ’angry and confused’ after farmer bulldozes family’s unfinished house

Nkululeko Nene|Published

Some allege that the farmer had given the Nguni family permission to build, however he has denied the claim.

We are living in fear, says Durban shop owner after store torched by mob

Nkululeko Nene|Published

He narrowly escaped death when his shop was set alight in Durban’s CBD this week, but Pakistani businessman Altaf Hussain is not giving up.

Netcare helicopter that crashed ‘came apart mid-air’

Mervyn Naidoo and Nkululeko Nene|Published

A Netcare 911 helicopter plummeted into open veld in Winterton, northern KZN after the craft’s tail-end broke away from the fuselage mid-air, and burst into flames ...

Beheaded men once worked for Teddy Mafia, says witness

Nkululeko Nene|Published

The two men shot, beheaded and set alight in Shallcross had worked for alleged drug lord Yaganathan Pillay, aka Teddy Mafia, until they switched loyalties, according ...

Load shedding could hit SA until September 2021

Nkululeko Nene|Published

Eskom has cancelled load shedding for today, but the chances are very good that electricity supply will be on the blink this festive season.

‘I will fight GBV with last drop of blood’

Nkululeko Nene|Published

Zulu monarch King Goodwill Zwelithini has pledged to protect women and children against gender-based violence with his last drop of blood. #16Days #DontLookAway

Midlands farmers outraged after one of their own tied to tree and shot

Nkululeko Nene|Published

Mpoza Khumalo had been checking on the family cattle, sheep and goats grazing on the leased Springwater farm when he was attacked on November 17. He died ten days ...

Family puts farming on hold after Glen and Vida Rafferty’s murder

Nkululeko Nene|Published

The family of Normandien couple Glen and Vida Rafferty have decided to evacuate the farm following the couple’s heinous murder.

Ndwedwe residents forced to use urine-contaminated water for the past 8 years

Nkululeko Nene|Published

Clean water is a luxury for Ndwedwe residents, a village, just outside Verulam on the KwaZulu-natal North Coast, who are forced to share storm water with livestock. ...

Prince Lethukuthula Zulu's death rocks Zulu monarchy

Nkululeko Nene|Published

Police confirmed that Zulu was with a friend who was sleeping in another room at Graceland residential complex when a security guard discovered his body.

Suspended KZN prison boss: I have been forced and bullied to stay at home

Nkululeko Nene|Published

Suspended Kwazulu-Natal prison boss Mnikelwa Nxele has demanded to be reinstated after he was barred from entering his office in Pietermaritzburg on Monday.