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The Nelson Mandela Bay municipality continued to pull the plug on electricity defaulters on Tuesday, leaving Eskom’s offices in Cape Road in darkness.

Founding member of the Democratic Party, Colonel Hilda Burnett, has died at the age of 92. Burnett was an ardent supporter of the unbanning of the ANC, and fought for equality for more than two years before South Africa's democracy.


United Phosphorus Limited has taken refuge behind a legal laager, refusing to disclose a raft of regulatory and safety documentation to Durban residents. It has also refused to fund or to take part in a new public forum to access more information about the Cornubia chemical disaster.

It has been exactly a month since a massive cloud of toxic chemical fumes engulfed residential areas over large parts of Durban for 12 days – but government officials and the Indian-owned UPL agrochemicals giant are still refusing to release a full inventory of the quantity and type of poison...

The UPL warehouse was set alight by looters during the unrest last month