Saturday, 1 April 2023
Amanda Khoza has worked at a number of leading publications in South Africa and writes human interest stories that have a positive impact on ordinary South Africans.
Local government has assured the 164 shack dwellers who lost homes in a Pietermaritzburg fire that they don’t want them rebuilding on the floodplain and will ‘make a plan’. Time will tell.
Some of those with homes destroyed by the tornado in KwaZulu-Natal say it was the result of two warring snakes or the act of an angry God. They do not believe the government will do anything to help them.
Torrential rain and flash floods in the province have killed three people and damaged countless homes, but local councillors and municipalities have yet to offer any assistance.
Residents of Ndwedwe are battling the local inkosi, who has stopped a R40 million project from going ahead in the area, frustrating hopes of jobs and better schools.
A KwaZulu-Natal induna who challenged annual taxes imposed on his community by the Ingonyama Trust has raised the ire of the area’s inkosi, who allegedly benefits from the money.
After being told he owed thousands of rands in rent to King Goodwill Zwelithini’s trust, Zakhele Nkwankwa has joined hundreds of residents taking the trust to court to challenge its stranglehold.
A private company is attempting to claim a piece of KwaZulu-Natal land that a church congregation bought for its own purposes.
Water, electricity and municipal rates bills are on the rise in the KwaZulu-Natal town. Officials’ explanations make no sense to residents, who mourn the town’s formerly welcoming atmosphere.
The KwaZulu-Natal town has a history blighted by allegations of political killings, the misappropriation of municipal funds and high levels of debt. But it’s time to move forward.
An accident at the Willowton Oil plant has poisoned the river, causing the death of a herder and livestock as well as fish, and depriving residents of their water source.
Eking out a living by sorting waste from landfill is a dangerous, dirty and difficult job. But the thousands of people who do it have no other way of earning an income.
Under administration and seriously failing its residents, a single administrator’s proposed turnaround strategy appears to be all that might keep the capital city of KwaZulu-Natal from complete collapse.
Sibusiso Zondi has been trapped in his eighth storey flat for nine years because he is a wheelchair user and the lift is broken. His mother’s protest has led to eviction.
The recent floods in KwaZulu-Natal destroyed ID documents along with homes, leaving residents displaced and trying to rebuild their houses and lives instead of voting.
Basic services such as clean water provision and rubbish removal have become erratic in Makhanda. Disgruntled residents speak of voting for parties other than the ANC come 8 May.
A number of those who defected to the National Freedom Party have returned to the IFP, something on which IFP councillor Thinasonke Ntombela says the party will be capitalising.
The mother of five has taken a winding path to the DA, littered with disillusionment and struggle, learning the skills required to be a councillor along the way.
Liau Khoase studied while working to improve his chances of providing for his family, but a contested dismissal has left him without an income for the past 20 months.
Residents of Nquthu, KwaZulu-Natal, go without basic services despite their party loyalty, whether to the ANC or the IFP.
A small KwaZulu-Natal farming community waits anxiously and impatiently as the land reform department drags its feet and bungles their claims.
The ruling party’s birthday celebrations and 2019 election manifesto launch drew tens of thousands of its true believers. But many others, now disillusioned, stayed at home.