A landslide in KwaZulu-Natal’s Umlazi township, southwest of Durban, on Sunday led to the death of one person. Safety and first aid service provider Medi Response attended the scene on Sunday morning ...

'High apartheid' in the 1960s was marked by intensified efforts to redraw urban areas along racial lines and quash black South Africans' schooling and employment ambitions. The 1953 Bantu Education ...

Parts of Umlazi are known crime hotspots. Recent events — where 11 people were killed in two hits — have rocked residents of the KZN town. Daily Maverick visited Umlazi and found unease and terror, ...

The South African Police Service (SAPS) has confirmed that the killing of eight people at the Zama informal settlement in Umlazi on Friday, 16 May was not a random act of violence. Six men and two ...

Seven men were declared dead immediately after the shooting in the pre-dawn hours of Saturday in the Umlazi township. An eighth man died on Sunday, police said. Two others are hospitalized with ...

The AFRO knows what it’s like to endure challenging times. John H. Murphy, Sr., a former enslaved man founded the AFRO in 1892 with $200 from his wife, Martha Howard Murphy. Together they created a ...

As cold weather swept through some parts of the Durban area early on Tuesday morning, a group of workers, schoolchildren and pregnant women queued on the bank of the Umlazi River. These residents of ...

UMLAZI - Law enforcement and traffic authorities are focusing on the notorious Umlazi township in Durban. This as KwaZulu-Natal has recorded some of the deadliest road crash incidents this festive ...

Human Settlements Minister, Thembi Simelane, has issued a directive for the immediate relocation of households affected by recent mudslides in Umlazi Township, Section H, south of Durban. Simelane ...

Soo Matthews, the Head of Primrose School, Harehills, in Leeds, has travelled with Radio Five Live to see for herself the affect of Aids on a South African township community. She will meet local ...

A two-week water outage at Prince Mshiyeni Memorial Hospital, south of Durban, ended on Sunday when piped water started flowing after intensive efforts to restore supply to the state facility. At the ...

Gunmen burst into a room at a men's hostel near the eastern South African city of Durban, killing eight people and leaving two others injured, police said Sunday, in the latest mass shooting in the ...