Kwazulu/Natal, South Africa News

Five people have been arrested in two houses suspected to be drug dens in Berea in Durban on Thursday, KwaZulu-Natal police said.

Zuma will take another bride - family President Jacob Zuma was set to marry his fifth wife, a relative said in Nkandla on Tuesday afternoon.

Captain Michelle Pitout, who was buried in Port Shepstone on Tuesday after she was killed during a housebreaking investigation last week, had bravely given her life to policing, said National Police Commissioner Bheki Cele.

Developers of unauthorised holiday resorts in KwaZulu-Natal's World Heritage Site, the iSimangaliso Wetlands Park, have refused to demolish them.

Four members of a family were killed when their six-seater airplane crashed in Harrismith in the Free State on Monday afternoon, paramedics said.

The number of fatalities on KwaZulu-Natal roads has dropped from 162 during last year's festive season to 140 this year, the provincial Department of Transport said on Sunday.

South African poet and former political prisoner Dennis Brutus, who fought apartheid in words and deeds and remained an activist well after the fall of his country's racist system, has died.

Six people were killed and three others injured on Friday night when three men armed with R5 and AK47 rifles entered a Ngwane house and opened fire, Kwa-Zulu Natal police said on Saturday.

The former minister of health Manto Tshabalala-Msimang was praised as a hero for her work in the health sector and as a political activist at her memorial service at the Durban City Hall.

Transport Minister Sbu Ndebele has patted the Civil Aviation Authority warmly on the head for the swift action it took to ground the Jetstream fleet of Airlink, the state-owned feeder airline.

By Sharika Regchand A woman who was killed by her boyfriend at KwaPata, Pietermaritzburg, on Tuesday night had allegedly been kidnapped and abused by him for several months before the murder.

Correctional Services Minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula received a report last night after an investigation into whether convicted fraudster Schabir Shaik had violated his parole conditions.

Correctional Services Minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula won't ask the parole board to review Schabir Shaik's parole yet, a spokesperson said on Monday.

Seventeen people were injured in a head-on collision between a taxi and a bakkie on the M37 in Adams Mission near Durban on Tuesday, KwaZulu-Natal paramedics said.

One person was killed and a total of 66 people were injured in three separate accidents around Durban, paramedics said on Monday.

President Jacob Zuma was considering convicted fraudster Schabir Shaik's application for a pardon, a spokesman said on Monday.

Five passengers who were injured when an Air Emirates Boeing 747 encountered severe turbulence and plunged on Saturday have been released from hospital, according to news reports.

By CHARMEL BOWMAN Close to 500 people have died on South Africa's roads since December 1 in over 350 crashes.

Civil rights group AfriForum today lodged a complaint with the Parole Board against convicted fraudster Schabir Shaik after he was allegedly caught on camera violating his parole conditions.

By Nompumelelo Magwaza An Umkomaas teenager who died after being raped, stabbed and struck with a rock had been looking for a holiday job when she was attacked, her family said on Sunday.