Durban, South Africa News

South Africa's mix of English and Dutch law needs to be "Africanised" to make it more relevant, Cape Judge President John Hlophe said in Durban on Thursday night.

By Sinegugu Ndlovu Members of the National Union of Mineworkers could go on strike from Wednesday, disrupting work at Durban's major 2010 projects, including the Moses Mabhida Stadium.

The country's new crime fighting team - the Hawks - made its first arrest in Durban on Wednesday morning, KwaZulu-Natal police said.

Durban will have it's very own cable car come October. Durban will have it's very own cable car come October.

A Durban man, who was released on bail in May for allegedly raping a seven-year-old girl, has allegedly raped her again, KwaZulu-Natal police said on Tuesday.

KwaZulu-Natal doctors on Thursday called off a strike that saw close to 300 doctors fired.

THE LIONS have demanded that the referee and his assistants at today's third Test at Ellis Park crack down on South African illegality and unpleasantness which they feel went unchecked in Durban and Pretoria.

Perhaps it was a hastily written statement, but comments made this week by the DA have outraged Durban city manager Michael Sutcliffe.

KwaZulu-Natal doctors returned to work on Friday morning after downing tools for almost two weeks demanding better pay and improved working conditions.

Five people were arrested in a raid on a brothel on Durban's Clark Road on Thursday afternoon, KwaZulu-Natal police said.

Fresh from scooping a clutch of accolades at the CIAK Junior Film Festival Awards in Italy in June, 12-year-old Durban schoolgirl, Amber-Jay van Rooyen, has been invited to take part in the 2009 Durban International Film Festival, in the Short Film Category.

The Loeries Travelling Exhibition will be returning to KwaZulu-Natal shortly when it goes to the Durban branch of Vega, The Brand Communications School, from 13 to 18 July.

For the first time RCN members can get a unique insight into the International Council of Nurses Congress care of a daily blog.

Posts for recently fired doctors would be advertised soon and dismissed doctors would be allowed to apply, KwaZulu-Natal health MEC Sibongiseni Dhlomo said on Tuesday afternoon.

The government signed a revised pay offer for public sector doctors today in the hope of ending weeks of picketing and strikes that saw at least 200 doctors fired.

The African National Congress in KwaZulu-Natal has described the suspension of Durban's bus service as unacceptable, and has called on the government and the city to urgently sort it out.

By Gugu Mbonambi and Kamini Padayachee More than 100 striking doctors have been issued with letters of dismissal, the KwaZulu-Natal Health Department announced on Monday.

KwaZulu-Natal doctors were picketing outside Inkosi Albert Luthuli hospital on Tuesday morning, police said.

The South African National Editors' Forum yesterday urged Parliament to restore "stability, credibility and sound financial capacity" to the embattled SABC.

KwaZulu-Natal doctors on Monday defied a court order which compelled them to go back to work.