Metro cop allegedly assaults Monkey Helpline co-founder in home

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He entered without a search warrant; intimidated her ‒ animal rights activist

SA doctors livid over Sahpra’s guidelines for Ivermectin use

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Doctors say Sahpra’s latest guidelines, serve to increase the administrative burden on doctors, rather than open up access to those who want to prescribe Ivermectin ...

KZN Health Department’s R9bn irregular expenditure

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The KwaZulu-Natal Department of Health incurred irregular expenditure of R9,92 billion in 2019/20 according to damning findings of the auditor-general.

Calls to scrap proposed amendments to workmen’s compensation legislation

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Proposed changes to the Compensation for Occupational Injuries and Diseases (COID) Act will leave workers and healthcare practitioners vulnerable and facing unpaid ...

Doctors ’cautiously optimistic’ about regulator’s decision on Ivermectin to treat Covid-19

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Ivermectin lobby groups have welcomed the regulator’s decision to allow compassionate controlled access to the drug as a step in the right direction but have raised ...

More than R17bn in irregular expenditure in KZN departments, AG report finds

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MPLs call for government departments to implement “consequent management” to deal with errant officials

WATCH: Durban surfers take to the waters in protest over lockdown regulations

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Surfers rapped over the knuckles for heading into the waters despite Level 3 regulations

Restaurants body protests over alcohol ban

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About 4 000 restaurants out of 11 000 restaurants nationally had closed as a result of the alcohol ban and 9pm curfew imposed in December and an estimated 500 000 ...

Banks face lawsuit over 'unjust' sale of homes

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Hundreds of aggrieved bank customers have filed an application in the Gauteng High Court seeking certification of a R60 billion class action, claiming their homes ...

Clinical trial on efficacy of Ivermectin welcomed

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Doctors in the Ivermectin Interest Group ...

KwaDukuza takes stand against electricity thieves and defaulting customers

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Other municipalitues such as eThekwini Municipality reported losses of R70 million due to illegal electricity connections in the past year and the Msunduzi Municipality ...

Doctors appeal to regulator to allow Ivermectin use for Covid-19

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UKZN healthcare scientist, Professor Colleen Aldous, one of at least 20 professionals across the country, who formed the Ivermectin Interest Group (IIG), said the ...

’Worst bout’ of load shedding forecast for this year

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Energy analyst Ted Blom said the “corruption, incompetence and ineptitude” which had plagued Eskom since the early 2000s had led to the current state of disrepair ...

Covid-19 second wave: KZN records more than 6 000 new infections per day

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The provincial government and law enforcement agencies have inspected scores of businesses and issued fines or compliance notices to some, while shutting down others ...

Funeral parlours accused of charging 'exorbitant' prices for Covid burials

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A Durban priest has blown the whistle on the high prices that they are allegedly charging their customers even when they have a funeral policy in place

Sars lambasted for cybersecurity risk

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Sars is exposing taxpayers to the the risk of cyber crime by using discontinued software on its e-filing system - IT experts

Charter bus companies say pleas for help being ignored

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PCPA chairperson Fiona Brooke-Leggatt said she had written repeatedly to senior officials in the department of transport and to Mbalula advising that the industry ...

National Treasury interim Covid-19 expenditure report: Ethekwini among top spenders

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KwaZulu-Natal has spent R3. 196 billion in the fight against the Covid-19 pandemic, according to an interim National Treasury report released to the province.

Mixed reaction to Gary Player’s US award

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The EFF has described the award bestowed on legendary South African golfer Gary Player by outgoing US President Donald Trump as one alleged racist recognising another ...

KZN doctors, nurses exhausted as they battle Covid-19 ‘war’

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Medical personnel said they were plagued by staff shortages, burnout and illness.

KZN adds hospital beds, asks retired doctors to provide their services to fight Covid-19 surge

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Altogether 455 additional beds have been made available in the province.

Court grants provisional liquidation of crypto firm MTI

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Hawks investigating a criminal case against the firm, which had attracted investors globally in SA, the UK, Australia, Namibia and Ireland

Jail looms for those breaking new Covid-19 lockdown rules

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People who break the stringent new Covid-19 lockdown level 3 regulations will be arrested and may be charged, fined and imprisoned for criminal offences such as ...

SA investors unable to redeem more than R9 billion deposits in cryptocurrency scheme

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The Financial Sector Conduct Authority says funds invested in 'illegal operation’ unlikely to be recovered

Why British Airways suspended its London-to-Durban flights

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BA has had has had to make extraordinary sacrifices, letting go of some 12 000 staff and retiring 31 aircraft