The Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) has become the latest political party to join the fight to save the historic Ithala Bank from being liquidated by the Prudential Authority (PA), the division of the South African Reserve Bank (SARB) that oversees banks in the country. Today, February 24, the party organised a march in central Durban and later delivered a memorandum with six demands to the SARB branch in the city centre.  The protest march was led by party President and…

A restaurant manager who allegedly strangled and killed a KwaZulu-Natal woman before burying her body in his yard at Amaotana (Inanda) in Durban will spend at least two months in jail after abandoning his bail application.  Mfanafuthi Kunene, accused of killing Ayabonga Mjilo, abruptly gave up his bid for bail when he appeared before the Durban Magistrate’s Court on Monday, January 6. According to KwaZulu-Natal police, Kunene (37) was the last person seen with Mjilo (22), who disappeared on December 23,…

Hundreds of service providers contracted to the national schools nutrition programme in KwaZulu-Natal face a black Christmas after the province’s department of education allegedly failed to pay them for December. The non-payment led to the National School Nutrition Programme (NSNP) Service Providers Association writing to Premier Thami Ntuli to intervene. The payments were supposed to be received last week Friday. However, the association said that had not happened by Monday, 23 December.  “I write to bring to your urgent attention…

The chairperson of the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) in KwaZulu-Natal, Thami Ntuli, has downplayed the reported tensions between the MEC for CoGTA, Reverend Thulasizwe Buthelezi and the ANC in the government of provincial unity (GPU) and in the province. Ntuli, who is also the premier in the GPU, says it was always expected that there would be differences since they come from different political parties. The provincial IFP leader was responding to a question from the African Times during a…

The MEC for Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (CoGTA) in KwaZulu-Natal, Reverend Thulasizwe Buthelezi, has been temporarily stopped in his spirited bid to relocate the department’s traditional affairs division to Ulundi. The opening was billed for Thursday, 5 December 2024, but it was halted after Premier Thami Ntuli intervened. Ntuli said the halting would be until the government of provincial unity involving the IFP, ANC, DA and the National Freedom Party (NFP) is satisfied that all legal processes were followed. …

The majority of the expired foodstuff uncovered in the two warehouses in Durban originated from either Nigeria in West Africa and India, in Asia, police said. Some of the goods had no expiry dates while others had clear expiry dates which had long passed. The factories were uncovered after an intelligence driven operation carried out by the police in Kwazulu-Natal acting on a directive from Provincial Commissioner, Lt General Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi and Premier Thami Ntuli. From Nigeria there was expired…