Highway Hospice in Durban prides itself on giving care, medical and mental, to the terminally ill, but now it faces the worst financial crisis in history.
Olympic swimmer Brett Petersen has a tough few weeks ahead. Not only does the Durbanite have the Commonwealth Games trials within the next month, but he is waiting to find out he whether needs to undergo minor heart surgery.
Durban is home to many sports and sportsmen, but until now not everyone has had the opportunity to participate, get training or use the facilities. However, this is about to change with the construction of a sporting academy of excellence open to eve
The eThekwini council has lost R66-million in just one year because of illegal and stolen electricity, but in the township areas of Cato Manor the cost is measured in human lives, lost in pursuit of free electricity. And many of those killed and inju
The new regulations banning 4x4 vehicles from beaches are already having an impact on tourism, employment and fishing on the KwaZulu-Natal coast, with holidaymakers cancelling pre-booked holidays, according to Tourism KwaZulu-Natal.
The sharks feeding off KwaZulu-Natal are showing remarkable intelligence, learning to evade the shark nets and to follow the ski-boats to get food, resulting in a concentration in certain areas. "They hear or feel the vibrations and then wait for th
The Dusi marathon is not for the faint-hearted, and experience definitely counts in the competitors' favour. But recently youngsters have started taking control of the race and the oldies are slipping behind in the winning stakes. The favourites for
With less than three weeks to go, KwaZulu-Natal's premier canoe marathon, the Hansa Powerade Dusi, is under threat because the poor water quality has become a health risk. Three weeks ago, more than 100 paddlers who took part in a practice on the riv
If you're hoping to get a message to someone on New Year's Day via the SMS facility on your cellphone, then be patient: as many as 50-million messages could clog the networks. And the bad news is that if you get the "message failed" note, indicating
The Road Traffic Inspectorate is there to keep the peace on KwaZulu-Natal's roads, to ensure that drivers maintain the speed limit - its officers are not there to foment road rage. But one Durban resident discovered a traffic policeman this week who
Thanks to Wheelchairs KZN and the now defunct KZN Lotto, 213 wheelchairs have been donated to needy recipients by Community Care Centres, bringing to more than 1 200 the number of chairs donated by the organisation to date.
There is electricity in the air in the Sharks camp for the Currie Cup final - an element that has been missing the past two seasons. This is the third successive time the Sharks have made it to the final and they are hoping to bring back the cup to t
An international conference has been told that 40 percent of sexual crimes against children are committed by children themselves. "We teach men not to empathise and we are now reaping the results of those teachings," says Director of the Childline Fa
A visit to the new Gateway shopping centre in Durban became a lesson in humiliation for a nurse who was searched and treated like a criminal - and then informed by a security guard that it wasn't really a random check as they had been told to search
A KwaZulu-Natal poacher, who has twice before been convicted and fined for his crimes, is currently serving a 2 000 hour prison sentence - on weekends. The unusual punishment is meant to give him "a taste of prison life" as fines do not appear to hav
More than a month after forensic test results to ascertain the cause of her husband's death were due, Karen-Anne Bosch, widow of Springbok cricketer Tertius Bosch, is launching legal action against her accusers and sections of the media she believes
Police have opened a case of theft after an undisclosed amount of money was found to be missing from cricketer and dentist Tertius Bosch's estate, following days of speculation that he had been poisoned.
South African Breweries's new Trade Brewer Kate Jones is proving that beer is no longer a man's game. She calls herself an ambassador of beer, and one of her duties includes educating the public on the beer culture which, while strong, is still somew
The Springboks partied until the early hours of the morning during the week before their second Test match against France in Durban, according to a French journalist - who evidently patronised the same nightspot. The Boks won the match, but their per
Almost 300 schoolchildren at KwaDabeka, a poor area just outside Pinetown in KwaZulu-Natal, have been treated for poisoning after they bought small packets of chocolate from a vendor - a woman they recognised - at the gates of their school.
As shoppers happily went about their day at Sanlam Centre Bluff in Durban yesterday, rescue workers frantically tried to free the only surviving victim of a construction job that went horribly wrong when a retaining wall collapsed on four demolition
Daphne Smit, a mother of three, was deserted by her husband five years ago. Today she runs a tracing business, finding other "lost" fathers and seeing that they are served with warrants under the Maintenance Act. She has a network of 20 volunteers wo
Violence against women took many forms, including social abuse, of which the church itself had been guilty, says Bishop Purity Malinga of the Methodist Church of Southern Africa.
Ishwar Mungaroo and his family of five recently bought a home in a quiet cul-de-sac in Glenashley, Durban. With a large area at the back, Mungaroo decided to build a private prayer and meditation room. Now neighbours are objecting saying the structu
Minority Front leader Amichand Rajbansi and Shameen Thakur have finally tied the knot, ending months of speculation about the Bengal Tiger's love life. After a wedding of royal proportions, the newlyweds will enjoy two honeymoons. The first is to a l
