The Department of Transport in KwaZulu-Natal has told its employees to cease the habit of immediately challenging recruitment processes where they feel cheated and demand immediate redress. The department says this delays the process of filling up vacant positions and employees should only challenge the process once everything has been completed. The directive is contained… Continue reading KwaZulu-Natal Department of Transport Gags Employees From Lodging Grievances Over Unfair Recruitment Processes Until Conclusion
Tag: Kwa-Zulu Natal (KZN)
AG Report Reveals Trends of Rot in KwaZulu-Natal Municipalities
The Auditor General (AG) report has revealed working trends of financial mismanagement, poor consequence management and poor revenue collection by most KwaZulu-Natal municipalities. AG Tsakani Maluleke’s report covers the period from 1 July 2023 to 30 June 2024. According to the report, shared with the KwaZulu-Natal Treasury headed by MEC Francois Rodgers, poor financial management… Continue reading AG Report Reveals Trends of Rot in KwaZulu-Natal Municipalities
Investigative Committee Recommends Fresh Interviews for Principal Position After R50 000 Bribery Scandal
A committee that was tasked with investigating allegations of bribery and corruption in the hiring of the principal of Ziphathele High School in Clermont, west of Durban, has recommended that the process be started afresh after a bribery scandal. The committee found that there was substance to allegations that one of the interview committee (IC)… Continue reading Investigative Committee Recommends Fresh Interviews for Principal Position After R50 000 Bribery Scandal
ANC KwaZulu-Natal Provincial Task Team Promises to Root Out Factionalism and Corruption, and Restore Faith in the Party
The recently installed KwaZulu-Natal ANC provincial task team (PTT) says it will fight factionalism, root out corruption within its ranks, audit branches, and bring people back to the party. Led by ANC veteran Jeff Radebe, the PTT made this undertaking while briefing the media today (March 5) in Durban, following its first meeting since assuming… Continue reading ANC KwaZulu-Natal Provincial Task Team Promises to Root Out Factionalism and Corruption, and Restore Faith in the Party
ANC NWC to Brief Regional Structures about Reconfiguration Decision and Way Forward
Members of the ANC’s National Working Committee (NWC) will spend the weekend in KwaZulu-Natal to brief party structures regarding the reconfiguration of the provincial executive committee (PEC). The NWC would also outline what the new structure that will take over from the PEC would do in the coming months and ahead of the 2026 local… Continue reading ANC NWC to Brief Regional Structures about Reconfiguration Decision and Way Forward
Six People Die in KwaZulu-Natal’s Floods, Death Toll Expected to Rise
The heavy rains that battered Durban and other areas in KwaZulu-Natal have claimed six lives in different places. The death toll is expected to rise as disaster teams are still combing affected areas across the province. The provisional death toll was announced by the eThekwini Municipality, confirming four deaths, while KwaZulu-Natal Cooperative Governance and Traditional… Continue reading Six People Die in KwaZulu-Natal’s Floods, Death Toll Expected to Rise
WATCH: Scores of Families Evicted from a Greytown Farm in Which they Lived for Decades
Scores of families in Greytown in the KwaZulu-Natal Midlands will spend tonight in open fields after they were evicted from a farm in which they lived for decades. About 20 families claimed that they have resided on the farm known as KwaMajayiva since 1981 after the previous owner allowed them to settle. The farm was… Continue reading WATCH: Scores of Families Evicted from a Greytown Farm in Which they Lived for Decades
Slain SADTU Activist’s Family Cries Foul Over ‘Slow’ Police Investigations
The family of Nkosi Shabalala, the South African Democratic Teachers Union (SADTU) activist who was killed on 18 January this year in front of his kids and wife, are concerned with the slow pace of the police investigations into the case. Shabalala was from Bergville in the KwaZulu-Natal Midlands, but lived in Clermont as he… Continue reading Slain SADTU Activist’s Family Cries Foul Over ‘Slow’ Police Investigations
Farm Bought For RDP Development Now ‘Housing Top KZN ANC Politician’s Cattle’
A few days after President Cyril Ramaphosa authorised the Special Investigating Unit (SIU) to probe two dubious tenders awarded by the Kokstad Local Municipality in KwaZulu-Natal, another whistleblower has made damning allegations of corruption against the same entity. The whistleblower alleges that the municipality bought a farm known as Waaifontein to build RDP houses for… Continue reading Farm Bought For RDP Development Now ‘Housing Top KZN ANC Politician’s Cattle’
AMCU Supports Ithala Bank’s Battle for Survival, Accuses SARB of ‘Hidden Agendas’
The Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (AMCU) has thrown its weight behind the embattled Ithala Bank as the Prudential Authority (PA) presses on with its Pietermaritzburg High Court application to have the historic KwaZulu-Natal financial institution liquidated. In a statement, AMCU President, Joseph Mathunjwa said it looks like underlying political and commercial interests are… Continue reading AMCU Supports Ithala Bank’s Battle for Survival, Accuses SARB of ‘Hidden Agendas’