Pietermaritzburg, South Africa News

A carpenter who had denied he killed Pietermaritzburg widow Venotha Ince, came clean on Thursday and apologised to Ince's family for what he had done.

No budget for bottled water was the reason eight people died in Pietermaritzburg during a fitness test for jobs with the Road Traffic Inspectorate.

Acute staff shortages and overcrowding have been blamed for the high levels of gang violence at several of KwaZulu-Natal's prisons.

Pietermaritzburg - A witness at an inquiry into eight deaths at a fitness test in KwaZulu-Natal was on Tuesday accused of manipulating another witness.

An Indian-origin doctor was shot dead outside his surgery at Pietermaritzburg in KwaZulu-Natal province of South Africa.

The ANC must learn that their favourable reserves earned due to past members' heroics have now been over withdrawn from our personal 'trust' accounts, says Dr Rennie Naidoo .

A witness's testimony about a woman collapsing during a fitness test that claimed the lives of eight people was questioned at the commission of inquiry into the matter on Monday.

New Zealand selected junior riders for a short list team for the UCI Mountain Bike World Championships in South Africa in late August.

It is not possible to shower love and kindness on loved ones, after they have died.

The two Brian Boswell's Circus elephants whose abuse by their handlers ignited a public firestorm have been sent back to their base camp just outside Pietermaritzburg.

LOCAL downhill rider Tegan Molloy has had a great summer of riding, culminating in her selection on the Australian junior team to compete at the World Championships at Pietermaritzburg in South Africa in early September.

A KwaZulu-Natal man was jailed for 15 years by the Pietermaritzburg High Court on Wednesday for raping and robbing an 88-year-old woman.

Nkosiyabona Zungu has done a stellar job of highlighting the unsung heroes of South Africa in his play, A Long Way to Go.

The provincial DA on Monday filed papers in the KwaZulu-Natal High Court in Pietermaritzburg in a bid to find out why charges of fraud and racketeering were dropped against two senior ANC politicians.

Gauteng has lost 480-million kilolitres of water in the last financial year - enough to fill 192 000 Olympic-sized swimming pools.

A woman died when the car she was driving overturned on the N3 west near Hammarsdale in KwaZulu-Natal, paramedics said on Saturday.

The KwaZulu-Natal health department spent up to R2.4 million upgrading a smoking room, the DA claimed on Tuesday.

The output from one of South Africa's largest digitisation projects to date was made available to the public and researchers at an official hand-over of the African National Congress digital archive to President Zuma.

While lining up to begin their fitness test, traffic department recruits watched in horror as some of those who had gone before them collapsed from heat exhaustion and were left to fend for themselves.

The SABC video showing us the status of Madiba's health has turned us into crying babies who really don't know what we want, says Esethu Hasane .