Malcolm Canham News Today

The latest transparency blunder by the eThekwini Municipality involves dangerously high E. coli levels.

Officials are trying to establish what sparked the fire that destroyed around 250 homes at an informal settlement in Durban.

For nearly six weeks, Our Burning Planet has been asking the eThekwini Municipality to produce results of the water-quality tests that senior city officials claimed had been done before it reopened several visibly polluted beaches in January. The results, curiously, are not the ones which alleg...

The eThekwini municipality has finally admitted that its overflowing sewage treatment works were responsible for the tide of black water pollution that led to the closure of Durban beaches during the New Year holiday season. But it’s refusing to publicly release the results of recent beach wa...

The eThekwini Municipality has some tough questions to answer on whether it deliberately misled the public during a series of flip-flop decisions to close/open/close Durban’s sewage-polluted beaches last week.

Prayer gatherings, festivals, parties and events to usher in the new year appear to be muted this year.

Tons of people are flocking to the beach this festive season.