Durban, South Africa News

The Mercury Festival of Fine Living Hall at the Pietermaritzburg Royal Show has a cooking calendar crammed to the rafters with tasty diary fillers.

The gay couple, who tied the knot in a Zulu and Tswana wedding clad in their traditional attire last month, have been inundated with requests for interviews from far afield as France, the US, Germany and Netherlands.

Durban - Trade union Hospersa on Friday demanded an apology from KwaZulu-Natal Health MEC Sibongiseni Dhlomo for shutting down two radiotherapy machines at Durban's Addington Hospital.

Durban - A court has been shown chilling CCTV footage of a man repeatedly stabbing his ex-girlfriend in a KwaZulu-Natal shopping mall.

For the media the National Development Plan "was not scandalous enough to make front page news", Planning Minister Trevor Manuel said at the opening session of the 15th African Renaissance Conference in Durban on Thursday.

Artist Andries Botha says he is eager to get busy rebuilding his R1.5 million elephant sculpture and regrets the controversy that has come his way.

People desperate for any item of value they can find to sell are smashing open Durban's sewerage pipes and sifting through the sewage in the mistaken belief that there might be "treasure" inside.

Curry and Vice could have been the funniest spoof movie to come out of this country if it weren't for one thing.

"The best situation is when both your occupancy and room rates are recovering but that is not the case," Von Aulock said.

Simon Burfiend, from Steyning, plans to make history as part of a team which will row 5,000 miles across the Indian Ocean, unsupported.

A man who died after participating in a KwaZulu-Natal Road Traffic Inspectorate recruitment process fitness test was his family's breadwinner, a commission of inquiry heard in Pietermaritzburg on Thursday.

With the annual Tourism Indaba trade show in Durban having wrapped up last week, the city is preparing to host a travel conference of a different kind next week.

A mother seeking custody of her three young children in a divorce battle has been ordered to present herself for a psychological assessment because, a Durban High Court judge has ruled, the best interests of the children trump her constitutional right to privacy.

An intricate web of stormwater tunnels extending for kilometres beneath Durban and the suburbs has for years been used as a secret escape route by criminals who make their way under homes and roads or drop in through manholes after committing thefts or even murder.

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The 'Fresh All Day' camp is becoming a little bit dry after two of its members left the group to pursue different career paths.

A man has been arrested in connection with the murder of a 23-year-old in Umlazi, Durban, KwaZulu-Natal police said on Wednesday.

FASHION FORWARD: Afro-pop duo Mafikizolo are reunited, with Nhlanhla Nciza and Theo Kgosinkwe belting it out as the opening act of this year s Cape Town International Jazz Festival held in the Mother City.

Farmlands, against the backdrop of the Karkloof range, gave way to cool areas where the road ran through plantations of pine and wattle; a view of the Albert Falls Dam sparkling blue in the sunshine, was followed by endless fields of sugar cane.

Durban's Inkosi Albert Luthuli International Convention Centre complex had increased profitability with a "concerted effort at managing costs more efficiently", and not just through growing revenue from conferences and events.