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Four individuals have been sentenced to life imprisonment for the 2019 murder of Oscar Hlatshwayo, a civil engineer at the Alfred Duma Local Municipality in KwaZulu-Natal. Hlatshwayo, who served as Executive Director in the Engineering and Infrastructure Services Department, was killed in a drive-by shooting in Ladysmith. The investigation, led by the Political Killings Task […]
Opposition parties in KwaZulu-Natal have urged the provincial government to abandon plans for a bullet train between Durban and Johannesburg, calling instead for investment in freight rail to reduce truck traffic on the accident-prone N3 highway. The Umkhonto Wesizwe Party (MKP) criticized Premier Thami Ntuli’s bullet train proposal, which was mentioned in his State of […]
The KwaZulu-Natal Department of Public Works has fired its Director of Supply Chain Management and opened criminal charges after investigations revealed procurement irregularities worth R1.1 billion, including the improper awarding of 29 contracts to a single consulting firm. The department discovered the violations in September 2023 when officials flagged multiple discrepancies in the director’s procurement […]
UMZINTO, KZN – Police discovered a woman’s body with multiple stab wounds on Tuesday after her partner confessed to her murder in a Facebook video. Sibusiso Lawrence was later found hanging from a tree near the crime scene. The domestic violence incident that ended in murder-suicide has ignited intense social media debate, highlighting deepening gender […]
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