Kwazulu/Natal, South Africa News

GLOUCESTERSHIRE will give a County Championship debut to wicketkeeper Gareth Roderick in the Division Two match against Worcester- shire, which starts at New Road today.

Fifteen years after being acquitted in the sensational R31.4 million SBV robbery, a Durban businessman now faces possible life imprisonment for murder after a nine-year-old girl and her grandmother were killed in a hand grenade attack while sleeping.

At the UN Forum of Mayors on Crime Prevention and Security in Urban Settings, from left to right: Dong Min Ki, Jonathan Lucas, Cecilia Andersson, Martin Xaba, Bilal S. Hamad, and Marin Casimir Ilboudo.

KNOWN for breaking ground in many areas of contemporary dance, Durban's Flatfoot Dance Company uses the words of South African poet Mongane Wally Serote in its latest production, dubbed a "uniquely visioned choreopoem", History is a Home Address.

YOU will laugh as well as blush as you recognise yourself in some of the scenarios played out on stage, but you will also take comfort in knowing you are not alone on the roller-coaster ride of marriage and relationships.

The Sars audit specialist who is testifying in the tax fraud trial of businesswoman Shauwn Mpisane admitted on Monday that her bosses had questioned the credibility of her audit.

All primary school pupils will have to learn an African language as soon as next year according to the national Department of Basic Education.

The 46 children injured in a bus crash in Pietermaritzburg on Monday morning were from a special needs school, paramedics said.

A dilapidated government building in Durban could be renovated and handed to the Durban University of Technology to use as a student residence.

The DCD Group has announced its acquisition of renowned ship repair companies Elgin Brown and Hamer South Africa and a portion of EBH Namibia, whereby the national port authority in Namibia remains the key shareholder.

The Inkatha Freedom Party on Monday called for KwaZulu-Natal's health MEC and the head of department to quit over their failure to keep two cancer radiotherapy machines operational at a Durban hospital.

"It is not working for us, this thing of rotating the conference and creating conference infrastructure every five years at a huge cost," he told reporters in Johannesburg.

THE Only Way Is Essex babe Lauren Pope goes back to her DJ roots in the video for Roll Deep's new single All Or Nothing, out June 17.

Namibia's founding father Dr. Sam Nujoma has called on African countries to consolidate all structures of the African Union to build a united Africa with one defence force to defend its territorial integrity, territorial waters and airspace against foreign forces, Namibian Press Agency NAMPA reported.

Only weeks after Chinese President Xi Jinping had a much-publicized meeting with Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in Durban on the sidelines of a BRICS summit, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang is heading for New Delhi on Sunday on the first leg of his maiden tour abroad.

"I will never not be doing my greatest hits. I want people to close their eyes and reflect the moment." So said Snoop Lion aka Snoop Dogg when he was questioned at a press conference at the Beverly Hills Hotel in Umhlanga Rocks on Friday night.

Sex workers in Durban on Friday welcomed the call by the Commission for Gender Equality for the decriminalisation of sex work.

A man was given two life sentences in the Empangeni Regional Court for rape, KwaZulu-Natal police said on Saturday.

A SA Express Canadair CRJ-200, flight XZ-1331/SA-1331 from Port Elizabeth to Durban , was enroute at FL280 near East London when the left hand windshield cracked causing the loss of cabin pressure resulting in the passenger oxygen masks to be released.

A second top oncologist has quit in the wake of the KwaZulu-Natal health department's failure to keep two state-of-the-art radiotherapy machines operational at Durban's Addington Hospital, Sapa was told on Friday.