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DA retracts false claims about KZN mayor's car crash

Independent online (SA) 22 Mar 2025
“It has been alleged that the driver of the municipal vehicle was driving recklessly, speeding, and skipping red traffic lights at the time of the accident,” read the statement ... “That was a mistake that slipped from someone else,” she said ... .
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KZN houses 650 GBV survivors as Premier Ntuli expands shelter network

Independent online (SA) 22 Mar 2025
KWAZULU-Natal Premier Thami Ntuli has revealed that the province has more than 650 women who have been rescued from gender-based violence in their families and are now housed in 46 shelters in various towns across the province.
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Human Rights Day: DA's Rodgers highlights service delivery crisis in KZN

Independent online (SA) 21 Mar 2025
People should not yet get excited about the Government of National Unity and the Government of Provincial Unity because things are not going to change overnight, KwaZulu-Natal Democratic Alliance (DA) leader Francois Rodgers warned.
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KZN police shootout: community urged to report extortion incidents

Independent online (SA) 20 Mar 2025
Communities have been urged to report extortion cases to the police as it was being seen as a "get-rich-quick scheme" by criminals ... Police said the suspects opened fire on police officers who had intercepted their vehicle ... “They have nothing to lose.
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KZN police investigate whether suspects killed in Duffs Road shootout were linked to larger criminal gang

Independent online (SA) 20 Mar 2025
Police are investigating whether the suspects who were killed in a shootout with police in Duffs Road, along Dumisani Makhaye Drive, north of the Durban CBD on Thursday, were part of a larger criminal network ... Picture. Siphesihle Buthelezi.
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ANC KZN leader praises provincial police commissioner Mkhwanazi's crime-fighting efforts

Independent online (SA) 20 Mar 2025
The ANC provincial task team (PTT) in KwaZulu-Natal has hailed the leadership of provincial police commissioner Lieutenant-General Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi in the fight against crime, describing him as highly competent and effective ... THE MERCURY .
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Opposition parties warn against amalgamation of Msunduzi and other KZN Midlands towns

Independent online (SA) 20 Mar 2025
Opposition parties in Msunduzi have warned that an amalgamation of the Msunduzi Municipality with other municipalities could prove disastrous ... “We are waiting for the report from the Municipal Demarcation Board in order to make a comment ... THE MERCURY .
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Investigation launched into violent incident at Donnybrook High school, says KZN Education MEC

Independent online (SA) 20 Mar 2025
KwaZulu-Natal Education MEC Sipho Hlomuka says the department is working to address violence at schools and bullying ... In the video a learner in uniform can be seen on the ground while other learners, also in uniform, hit him ... THE MERCURY .
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IFP claims political motives behind KZN top cop Mkhwanazi probe

Independent online (SA) 20 Mar 2025
Blessed Gwala, IFP KZN provincial spokesperson for Community Safety and Liaison, released a statement expressing the party's alarm regarding the implications of the investigation.
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Foot and mouth disease threatens red meat farming in KZN as outbreak escalates

Independent online (SA) 20 Mar 2025
This follows Minister of Agriculture John Steenhuisen announcing that the department would extend the boundaries of the Disease Management Area (DMA) first declared in 2021 following new cases being detected in Newcastle in northern KZN.
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News24 | 92% of KZN municipal budgets 'spent in way that isn't consistent with the ...

News24 19 Mar 2025
Most of KwaZulu-Natal's municipalities are "struggling to comply with the rule of law" when handling their budgets, according to Auditor-General (AG) Tsakani Maluleke ... .
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News24 | KZN education dept calls for urgent probe into brawl at a Donnybrook high school

News24 19 Mar 2025
The KwaZulu-Natal education department has instructed officials to investigate a brawl that broke out at Mdingi High School in Donnybrook earlier this week, after a video of the fracas went viral on social media ... .
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KZN police arrest man linked to several vehicle theft & hijacking cases

Eye Witness News 19 Mar 2025
Police said the man was previously arrested and convicted to five separate cases in Gauteng and Mpumalanga. .
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