Addington Hospital patients go without food after lifts stop working

Durban – Patients at Durban’s Addington Hospital had to go without breakfast on Wednesday as lifts in the 16-storey building had stopped working. Wayne Twynham said he has to regularly carry his 72-year-old uncle, who has had one leg amputated, upstairs because the lifts are often not in working order. “He lost his foot during […]

Durban cops on the hunt for taxi driver who murdered lover in front of family

Durban – Police are still searching for an Inanda taxi driver who allegedly killed his ex-girlfriend in front of her family. Last week, the suspect, a man, went to the home of Mbalenhle Cele, 24, in Matikwe, Inanda. He pushed Cele’s 70-year-old grandmother out of the way, went into Cele’s room and allegedly stabbed her

Durban private security company suspended

Private security company, Reaction Unit South Africa has been suspended by the Private Security Industry Regulatory Authority. The authority says the immediate suspension follows sporadic cases of misconduct allegedly committed by RUSA. In a statement issued by PSiRA, it says it will not tolerate any apparent deliberate disregard for the industry’s Code of Conduct and

Phoenix Bloods Gang boss killed in apparent tow-truck dispute

Durban – Phoenix Blood gang leader Kalvin Periasamy was shot dead at close range at the Gateway Shopping Mall parking lot on Thursday, police sources have confirmed. According to police sources, the 36-year-old tow-truck and minibus taxi owner appears to have been shot in the back of the head as he made his way to

School denies bullying was behind Phoenix teen suicide

The KwaZulu-Natal education department will launch a probe into the death of a 15-year-old Phoenix pupil who ended her life after allegedly being bullied at school. A vigil has been planned for Monday night for the shocked Phoenix community to pay tribute to the pupil, whose name is known to TellitallSA. A Facebook post with

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KZN father of nine killed in nightclub brawl

Durban – A nightclub brawl after a man allegedly bumped into a woman on the dance floor ended in him being stabbed in the chest on Saturday morning. Businessman Benjamin Joseph, 45, of Bombay Heights, Pietermaritzburg, died at the Northdale Hospital. The acting spokesperson for Mountain Rise SAPS, chief administration clerk Sean Singh, said it

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Durban videographer sprayed with bullets on N3 in mystery shooting

Durban – Videographer Daryl Kotze is fighting for his life in hospital after his car was riddled with bullets while travelling on the N3 near the Brickfield Road offramp on Thursday night. Kotze was returning home after disembarking a flight from Johannesburg where he was filming a music video for Donald Moatshe. He was shot

Durban Metro cops gunned down outside ANC councillor’s home

Durban – Police are hunting for the gunmen who shot dead two Durban Metro police officers and took their guns in Inanda on Monday night. The officer were guarding an ANC councillors home in the Bhambayi area at the corner of Fernham and Stoneham Drive bordering Phoenix, north of Durban. Durban Metro police spokesperson Senior

73-year-old man found strangled in his Durban North home

Durban – Just after 17h00 Marshall Security were called to a premises on Waterkant Road after a homeowner returned home from a days work to find her husband unresponsive. The seventy three year old man was assessed by Crisis Medical Paramedics and found to have notable signs of strangulation as well as injuries consistent with

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Man gunned down at his Yellowwood Park home driveway

A Yellowwood Park resident was tragically shot and killed in his driveway earlier this evening. Blue Security community and media liaison officer Andreas Mathios said the resident had driven up to the gate of his Coedmore Avenue property and was waiting for it to open when he was gunned down at around 7.10pm. “Suspects who

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Phoenix dad doused with petrol, torched to death

Durban – A Phoenix grandfather suffered a gruesome and painful death when he was brutally assaulted, doused with petrol and set alight, resulting in his death on Mother’s Day. Redfern resident, Seelan Pillay (46), a former South African National Defence Force (SANDF) officer, was admitted to Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Hospital on Friday night sustaining extensive

3 dead as Rescue Care ambulance hit pedestrians in Durban

Durban – A Rescue Care ambulance knocked and killed 3 pedestrians in Booth Road, Cato Manor this morning. According to operations director Garrith Jamieson the crew was responding to a medical emergency when they collided with four pedestrians. “Unfortunately three of the four pedestrians that were knocked succumbed to their injuries. The fourth pedestrian is

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