In keeping with his stance of protecting the earth, the body of Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu was returned to dust by aquamation, an environmentally-friendly process using water instead of fire only.

Social media was abuzz with the sighting of a large, travelling body of light on Saturday night.

Several groups marched to Durban's high court on Monday, where they burnt their masks in protest against what they deem as state control.

Jackie Shandu, the convener of a coalition of civic groups under the banner #JusticeForPhoenixMassacreVictims, is expected to appear in the Durban magistrate’s court on Tuesday.

As temperatures dipped below freezing point throughout the country, one tourism establishment in the southern Drakensberg was delighted to awaken to a winter wonderland.

A line of snaking trucks and impatient sedans around Peacevale on the N3, where police stood guard as clean-up teams poured sand over the fiery remnants of protests, was the only snag to our road trip on Friday.

Water tankers, municipal offices and a fresh market on the KwaZulu-Natal south coast were set alight and vandalised on Monday morning.

The Jacob Zuma Foundation has quashed speculation that Sizakele MaKhumalo Zuma has died.

eThekwini officials have quashed speculation that city police officers were participating in widespread looting and criminality that has plunged KwaZulu-Natal into anarchy.

The body of Lindani Myeni, the former rugby player from KwaZulu-Natal who was shot dead by Honolulu police in Hawaii last week, is set to leave the US on Tuesday and arrive in SA on Friday.