Protesters are marching to the Durban Central Court today
Protesters are marching to the Durban Central Court today as community figures Magolide and Wandile…
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Two men were shot dead in Hime Street, Wentworth (a suburb south of Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa) in the early hours of Friday, 9 October 2026, while sitting outside one of their houses. The wife of one victim has publicly blamed ongoing gang violence in the area
According to the Southlands Sun report (published around 11 October 2026), Jacqueline Kock (42) said…
Four foreign nationals are scheduled to appear in the Durban Magistrateβs Court on the morning of Tuesday, 13 October 2026, in connection with the alleged shooting of a South African man on West Street (now Dr Pixley KaSeme Street) in the Durban CBD on Thursday, 8 October 2026. Reports link this incident to the rapid escalation of violence that day, in which 14 vehicles were torched and businesses were damaged or burned in the city centre.
This account aligns with updates circulating from local sources such as the KZN Tonight Podcast…
uMshwathi Local Municipality in KwaZulu-Natal appointed Ayanda Vilakazi as its Chief Financial Officer (CFO) in August 2026, despite internal reports linking her (in her prior finance role) to a suspected scheme involving the diversion of more than R4 million in municipal funds since 2024.
uMshwathi Local Municipality in KwaZulu-Natal appointed Ayanda Vilakazi as its Chief Financial Officer (CFO) in…
Reports of Wandile Nsibandeβs hospitalisation after an alleged stun-grenade injury during recent Durban protests are circulating widely on social media, primarily from March and March figures, but remain unverified by independent mainstream outlets or official police statements as of 11 October 2026.
Jacinta Ngobese-Zuma (a radio presenter and leader of the March and March movement) posted on…
Durban Tensions Explode: Protesters allegedly attacked and shots fired in Durban by Foreign Nationals
Recent anti-immigrant protests in Durban (primarily 8β10 October 2026) involved violence, vehicle arson, shop looting,…
Nineteen arrested for Durban protesting
Charges and next steps The suspects face charges of public violence and malicious damage to…
The Durban Metro Police Service Tactical Support Unit has arrested a Ugandan national and seized counterfeit cash estimated at R1.6 million
Charges and court appearance The suspect faces charges including: He is expected to appear in…
SANDF deployed in Durban CBD
Protests erupted on 8β9 October 2026 (and continued into a third day in some reports)…
NEWS24 has served Jacinta Zinhle MaNgobese Zuma with legal papers
leader of the March and March movement (an anti-illegal-immigration activist group, also linked to the…
Protest leader MaGolide has been arrested, according to police, for allegedly threatening to shut down Moses Mabhida Stadium and disrupt the MTN8 match between Orlando Pirates and Mamelodi Sundowns. Police allege that he had gathered protesters at King Dinuzulu Park to march to the stadium and enforce the shutdown.
this is confirmed by KwaZulu-Natal police statements and multiple South African news outlets reporting on…
Protesters are threatening to block the gates at Moses Mabhida Stadium ahead of the massive MTN8 Final between Orlando Pirates and Mamelodi Sundowns this Saturday.
activists from the March and March Movement have publicly threatened to disrupt or prevent the…
Telkom boss Maseko convicted over unfiled tax returns for 5 companies
Former Telkom CEO Sipho Nkosinathi Maseko was convicted on 9 October 2026 in the Palm…
The Johannesburg High Court (Gauteng High Court) ruled on 9 October 2026 that ANC secretary-general Fikile Mbalulaβs removal of ANC National Executive Committee (NEC) member Andile Lungisa from the partyβs proportional representation (PR) candidate list for Nelson Mandela Bay was unconstitutional, unlawful, invalid, and of no force or effect.
Judge Nelisa Mali (also referred to as Judge NP Mali in some reports) issued the…
Absolute Chaos in Durban Central as protest against migrants turns violent
Demonstrators carrying sticks and sjamboks clashed with public order police and asylum seekers outside the…
March and March protest in Durban turned violent, with vehicles set alight in the CBD.
Protesters linked to the March and March movement (an anti-illegal immigration group led by Jacinta…
The National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) and the South African Police Service (SAPS) confirmed that a 45-year-old man was sentenced to life imprisonment for raping his 5-year-old niece in the Gowan Lea policing precinct near Umzimkhulu.
Incident: The offense occurred on December 28, 2025, when the child was playing at a…
Private investment to drive Golden Mile redevelopment
The eThekwini Municipality’s initiative to attract private capital to Durbanβs beachfront has reached a major…
Former president and uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) Party leader Jacob Zuma was reportedly admitted to a hospital in KwaZulu-Natal late on Tuesday night, October 6, 2026, after falling ill while attending an event in Msinga
Incident: Zuma reportedly became unwell while on the campaign trail during a hot day in…
Immigration tensions have escalated in Durban, South Africa, with activists from the anti-illegal immigration group March and March (and related protesters) disrupting operations at the Department of Home Affairs Refugee Reception Centre on Che Guevara Road (also referred to in some reports in connection with Moore Road)
This is a developing situation as of early October 2026, involving protests, queues of asylum…
Fathma Bee Bee Khan (also referred to as Fathima Bibi Khan), a 67-year-old grandmother from Camperdown in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, was found murdered in her Bishop Road home after a home invasion/burglary. The incident occurred around the weekend of 27β28 September 2026 (discovered on Sunday morning), and it has been covered by local outlets including IOL/The Post and The Witness
Police are investigating it as a murder case. An unknown suspect (or possibly more than…
The ANC in the Moses Mabhida region (KwaZulu-Natal Midlands) has condemned the attack on former Richmond mayor and senior ANC figure Siminenkosi βSamoraβ Ndlovu as a βcowardly assassination attemptβ and is demanding a thorough police investigation.
Ndlovu, 43, a former ANC regional secretary in Moses Mabhida and currently a member of…
Tens of thousands of high school students, teachers, parents, and trade union members marched in Paris and across France on Tuesday, October 6, 2026, in one of the largest days of student-led protests in recent decades, demanding better conditions in lycΓ©es (high schools for ages 15β17).
Authorities had expected 20,000β40,000 demonstrators in Paris alone. The Interior Ministry later reported about 56,000…
The estate of the late Dudu Myeni (Duduzile Cynthia Myeni), former chairperson of the South African Airways (SAA) board, has been placed under provisional sequestration by the Pietermaritzburg High Court as the Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse (OUTA) pursues recovery of at least R6.1 million in unpaid legal costs.
This stems from cost orders awarded against Myeni after she lost a long-running case in…
