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1 week ago | 
dailydispatch.co.za | Mfundo Mkhize |Mlungisi Mhlophe-Gumede |Sandile Ndlovu
A planned march in support of KwaZulu-Natal police commissioner Lt-Gen Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi was cancelled on Friday. The march was set to get under way from Curries Fountain Stadium in Durban. Mkhwanazi was facing an investigation by the Independent Police Investigative Directorate (Ipid) after allegations he shielded an official at Qalakabusha prison in Empangeni who was about to be arrested for allegedly selling drugs to prisoners.
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3 weeks ago | 
dailydispatch.co.za | Mfundo Mkhize |Sandile Ndlovu
The Durban leg of the national #JusticeForCwecwe march started at Gugu Dlamini Park and will end at Truro House where the memorandum of grievances will be handed over. About 300 protesters who gathered at Gugu Dlamini Park in Durban added their voice to nationwide calls for #JusticeForCwecwe on Tuesday.
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4 weeks ago | 
dailydispatch.co.za | Mfundo Mkhize |Sandile Ndlovu
EFF leader Julius Malema's bodyguard Adriaan Snyman has opened a racism-related case against a swimming instructor in Durban, asking for the case to be heard by the South African Human Rights Commission and the equality court. A complaint form seen by TimesLIVE lists the potential counts as contravention of the Cybercrimes Act, crimen injuria, intimidation and attempting to incite racial tensions.
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4 weeks ago | 
sowetanlive.co.za | Mfundo Mkhize |Sandile Ndlovu
IFP supporters formed a guard of honour near KwaMashu Hostel on Thursday as bodies of two Biyela relatives who were killed by police last week passed through the hostel before their burial in northern KwaZulu-Natal. The remains of four KwaZulu-Natal men, including IFP eThekwini ward 39 chairperson Nhlakanipho Biyela, were brought to the KwaMashu hostel on Wednesday.
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1 month ago | 
dailydispatch.co.za | Mfundo Mkhize |Sandile Ndlovu
Siphamandla Khumalo stabbed the mother of his son, Nomfundo Msibi, to death in the parking lot of Gateway shopping centre in Durban in August. File photo. A KwaZulu-Natal man who stabbed to death his ex-girlfriend in the parking lot of Gateway shopping mall in August last year has been sentenced to life imprisonment by the Durban high court.
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1 month ago | 
sowetanlive.co.za | Mfundo Mkhize |Sandile Ndlovu
The state has argued convicted killer Siphamandla Khumalo, 34, who stabbed his ex-girlfriend more than 22 times in the parking lot of Durban's Gateway shopping mall in August last year had not shown remorse but instead given a halfhearted apology at the tail end of the trial.
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1 month ago | 
sowetanlive.co.za | Mfundo Mkhize |Sandile Ndlovu
MK Party MP Duduzile Zuma-Sambudla appeared for a pretrial hearing at the high court in Durban on Thursday, accused of inciting violence during the July 2021 unrest. Senior MK Party member Duduzile Zuma-Sambudla made a fleeting appearance in the KwaZulu-Natal High Court, sitting at the Durban magistrate's court, on Thursday when a date was set for her terrorism trial.
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1 month ago | 
sowetanlive.co.za | Mfundo Mkhize |Sandile Ndlovu
MK Party supporters gathered at the Durban high court on Thursday ahead of a pretrial conference on unrest charges faced by Duduzile Zuma-Sambudla. Among party leaders at the court were former minister Nkosinathi Nhleko, impeached former public protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane and provincial leader and former Msunduzi municipality deputy mayor Thobani Zuma.
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1 month ago | 
sowetanlive.co.za | Mfundo Mkhize |Sandile Ndlovu
Sibusiso Hadebe, 36, appeared briefly in the uMlazi magistrate's court in connection with the fatal stabbing of his mother Ntombifuthi Hadebe, 75. The family of Ntombifuthi Hadebe, 75, who was allegedly fatally stabbed by her youngest son in Umlazi, south of Durban, does not want the son to be released on bail.
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1 month ago | 
sowetanlive.co.za | Mfundo Mkhize |Sandile Ndlovu
Disgruntled community members in crime-ridden Amaoti in Inanda, northwest of Durban, have called on authorities to deploy the army to protect them. On Monday angry community members blocked off a road and brandished weapons after the latest shootings — which brought the total number of people killed on Sunday and Monday to six. The community members said they were fed up with crime and police inaction and called on government to deploy the defence force to protect them from criminal gangs.
