Durban, South Africa News

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.

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 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.

From San Diego to Berkeley and Davis, student senators introduce resolutions backing divestment, debate is scheduled immediately, propaganda is spread, supporters pack the halls, pro-Israel speakers are harassed , and student senators with almost no knowledge cast deciding votes.

State Security Minister Siyabonga Cwele told Parliament this week there was evidence that several South African citizens were linked to international terrorism organisations, including al-Qaeda. Cwele expressed confidence that on the weight of the evidence gathered the suspects would be arrested and charged soon.

Public hospitals with colonial names needed to be renamed urgently as these were people who had oppressed the Zulus and should not be remembered, King Goodwill Zwelithini said at the unveiling of a statue of King Dinuzulu in Durban on Thursday.

Marguerite Poland is an author who's known not only for her children's books and adult fiction, but also her non-fiction. She co-wrote the well-received The Abundant Herds: Celebration of the Nguni Cattle of the Zulu People with Professor David Hammond .

Zanzibar is a semi-autonomous part of Tanzania comprising an archipelago off the mainland.

But Pretoria could never manipulate the platinum price the way the Middle Eastern kingdom can influence oil's and talk of a platinum cartel, perhaps along the lines of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries , is a pipe-dream. The world's top platinum producers, South Africa and Russia, agreed to attempt to cope with excess supplies ... (more)

A man has been arrested near Durban for the murder of the sangoma believed to have masterminded rituals performed on Marikana mineworkers, police consultant Makhosini Nkosi said on Thursday.

Sipho was only six when he raped a girl two years older than he was. He did not rape her because he understood sex, but because he had just watched his 19-year-old role model rape the child.

Former Eshowe pupil Simphiwe Shange, who is suing the KwaZulu-Natal Education MEC for R3.9 million in damages, described on Wednesday how his life changed after he was partially blinded in one eye when a teacher allegedly hit him with a belt.

The country's air force bases, some considered National Key Points, are in a "dire state of neglect" and pose security risks due to damaged security fences.

At the ripe 71 Percy Sledge still tours and is heading to Cape Town. Last week, promoters of Music Alla Kaap 2013 announced an additional date for the show which features Sledge, PJ Powers and Zayn Adams.