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Yasantha Naidoo

Yasantha Naidoo has used words and facts to help reflect the story of the day, week and hour for more than 20 years. She is based in Durban.

Soliders were deployed to incidents of looting at several shops in Clermont, west of Durban, on Tuesday night. Picture:

Looting and gunshots as protesters keep police, army and private security busy

No incidents of violence and looting during June 30 march in Durban, but shops in some suburbs were ransacked on Tuesday night

A group of about 400 Malawians have been moved off the main site of the Durban drive-in and are waiting for buses to relocate them to Musina in Limpopo before they are repatriated to their home country. Picture:

IN PICS | Mammoth clean-up at Durban drive-in while about 400 Malawians wait for buses

A massive clean-up operation began at the Durban drive-in site, which had housed about 20,000 Malawian nationals, while about 400 people awaited transportation to Musina, Limpopo

About 200 community safety representatives from around KwaZulu-Natal met with premier Thami Ntuli and acting provincial commissioner Maj-Gen Phumelele Makoba on Saturday.

Drones, war rooms and boots on the ground to boost police eyes and ears

Community safety organisations are working with security companies and police to prevent violence on June 30

Malawian nationals gather near North Beach in Durban as they prepare to return to their home country after weeks of fear, uncertainty and displacement. Photo: SANDILE NDLOVU

WATCH | June 30: ‘We’ll be ready this time’

South Africa is leaving nothing to chance in the countdown to the June 30 “deadline” set by campaign organisers for illegal immigrants to leave the country, vowing that the riots that rocked the country in July 2021 will not be repeated.

Spokes­per­son Prince Thu­lani Zulu sought to ease ten­sions, mak­ing it clear that the Zulu mon­arch had neither called for nor endorsed the marches. Picture:

Immigration marches not a Zulu campaign, says king

King Mis­u­zulu kaZwe­l­ith­ini fully sup­ports the con­sti­tu­tional right of cit­izens to protest but would never con­done viol­ence or attacks on any indi­vidual

Zenzeleni Crèche in Imbali township, Pietermaritzburg, is one of several dozen early childhood development centres that haven't been paid subsidies from the provincial education department

The fight to feed children and help them thrive goes back to court

Hundreds of ECD centres collapse as a result of late or irregular subsidy payments

Members of March and March protest in Pietermaritzburg, KwaZulu-Natal, on Friday. Residents of the Jika Joe informal settlement have claimed men armed with sticks, allegedly from the march, attacked foreigners, which left one Malawian dead. Picture:

Foreigner allegedly beaten to death, others assaulted in PMB informal settlement

Tensions are running high at an informal settlement in Pietermaritzburg where a Malawian man was allegedly stoned to death and others beaten

More than 1,200 Malawian men, women and children arrived in Blantyre as part of a voluntary repatriation exercise from SA to escape violence and threats. Picture:

More than 1,200 repatriated men, women and children ‘safe’ on Malawian soil

Successfully repatriated Malawians say they feel safe after the ‘life-threatening’ situations they experienced in South Africa

Police fired stun grenades to control protesting crowds of Malawians who don't want to be moved from an encampment at Sherwood Park in Durban.

WATCH | Police fire stun grenades at protesting Malawians over deportation move

Police fired stun grenades at a group of Malawian nationals who allegedly turned on home affairs officials at the encampment in Sherwood Park in Durban on Wednesday.

The funeral procession for Thami Elijah Nkonyane, the late leader of the Christian Catholic Apostolic Holy Spirit Church in Zion also known as Inyoni Emhlophe, in Osizweni, Newcastle on Saturday.

Sad saga of stalled funeral, coffin filled with bricks and missing body

The family of a KwaZulu-Natal church leader wants to give him a proper send-off

A Zimbali resident's request to keep a small dog has triggered a governance war and two high court challenges. File photo

No pet policy sets the cats among the pigeons at Zimbali Estate

The right to keep a pet at the luxury Zimbali eco-estate has split residents and triggered a governance fight and two high court challenges

Pretoria's Kishore Ramharakh broke a Guiness world record with his 15.98m bunny chow he made at his venue in Centurion using a custom made oven and 16m-long baking tin.

WATCH | World’s longest bunny chow get Guinness Record in Pretoria

The bunny was 15.98m long and contained 40kg of lamb and 10kg of sugar beans