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Pie Cart outside the old station in Pine street remember
Mick’s / Nick’s Pie Cart outside the old Durban Station on Pine Street (now Monty Naicker Street) was a genuine…
Ladysmith’s (KwaZulu-Natal) water crisis has indeed reached a severe point by late August 2026, with the multi-week outage disrupting daily life, education, and basic hygiene for residents in affected areas.
The outage began around 7 August 2026 and, by the time of reporting around 21 August, had entered its third…
Cell point repairs
Cell Point (located serving the Gillitts, Kloof, and Upper Highway area at Hillgate Shopping Centre in Hillcrest) is a local…
Jani Allan (1952–2023) was a prominent South African journalist whose career was dramatically shaped by her 1980s association with Eugène Terre’Blanche (leader of the Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging, or AWB) and subsequent high-profile legal battles involving British media.
Background and Rise Allan (born Isabel Janet Allan in the UK on 11 September 1952; adopted and raised in South…
Burger @ Urban 68 La Lucia
Urban 68 is a popular pub and restaurant located at 22 Davallen Avenue in La Lucia/uMhlanga, known for its vibrant…
Ladysmith’s (KwaZulu-Natal) water crisis has indeed reached a severe point by late August 2026, with the multi-week outage disrupting daily life, education, and basic hygiene for residents in affected areas.
The outage began around 7 August 2026 and, by the time of reporting around 21…
Cell point repairs
Cell Point (located serving the Gillitts, Kloof, and Upper Highway area at Hillgate Shopping Centre…
Jani Allan (1952–2023) was a prominent South African journalist whose career was dramatically shaped by her 1980s association with Eugène Terre’Blanche (leader of the Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging, or AWB) and subsequent high-profile legal battles involving British media.
Background and Rise Allan (born Isabel Janet Allan in the UK on 11 September 1952;…
Burger @ Urban 68 La Lucia
Urban 68 is a popular pub and restaurant located at 22 Davallen Avenue in La…
Bunny Chow @ Fresh, Marine Drive, Bluff
Fresh Restaurant & Lounge (also referred to as Fresh or Fresh Bar) at 230 Marine…
Bunny Chow @ la mercy hotel
Bunny Chow at the Hotel Recent guest feedback specifically praises the bunny chow: Bunny chow…
August 23 is the International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition, established by UNESCO
Why August 23? The date commemorates the night of 22–23 August 1791, when enslaved people…
Oldest tree in the world. 6000 years. Tanzania. Africa.
There is no verified 6,000-year-old tree in Tanzania (or anywhere else). This is a long-running,…
Gill netting in and around Durban (eThekwini, KwaZulu-Natal) has two distinct contexts: official large-mesh “shark nets” for bather protection, and widespread illegal (illicit) gill-netting for fish, which is actively targeted by law enforcement.
Official shark nets (bather protection) Large-mesh gill nets have been deployed off Durban beaches since…
lab-grown human brain organoids (often called “mini-brains”) are being cultured in research labs and startups worldwide, and the emerging field of organoid intelligence (OI) or biocomputing is actively exploring whether these living neural networks can perform adaptive computation more efficiently than silicon-based neural networks in certain regimes
The claim that they could “soon outthink” conventional neural networks is an optimistic framing of…
Browser fingerprinting (also called device fingerprinting or machine fingerprinting when broader) is a tracking technique that identifies and follows users
across websites by collecting a combination of technical details about their browser, device, operating system,…
R&B superstar Miguel is set to enchant Mzansi with three spectacular performances
Grammy Award-winning R&B artist Miguel is heading to South Africa for three live performances presented…
A murder investigation is underway in Durban, South Africa, after a man was found dead with multiple stab wounds inside a crashed vehicle on Effingham Road in Greenwood Park (north of Durban)
The incident occurred on the evening of Monday, 17 August 2026 (around 20:30). Private security…
Bunny Chow @ La Mercy Hotel
The La Mercy Beach Hotel is renowned among KwaZulu-Natal local foodies as a prime destination…
Gang-related shootings in Durban (eThekwini metro, KwaZulu-Natal) are a serious and ongoing problem
though they are less dominant as a share of overall murders than in the Western…
The Grand Inquisitor – John Gielgud
The Grand Inquisitor captures Christ on his return to earth, a performance by Mr Gielgad…
William Shatner’s unforgettable performance of Elton John’s ‘Rocket Man’ at the 1978 Saturn Awards.
William Shatner’s legendary rendition of Elton John’s “Rocket Man” at the 5th Annual Saturn Awards…
South Africa, the plastic bag levy began with environmental intentions, but over time, it effectively shifted into a revenue collection mechanism that failed to curb overall plastic consumption
Initial Reduction vs. Long-Term Failure Where the Revenue Went The Net Result Rather than changing…