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Tensions escalate: KZN provincial task team spokesperson Fanle Sibisi and coordinator Mike Mabuyakhulu. Photo: Sandile Motha

ANC decries ‘bullying tactics’ as cracks threaten KwaZulu-Natal governing coalition

Schism in the KZN provincial government over threat to place department under administration

DA KwaZulu-Natal finance MEC, Francois Rodgers. (X)

Pay for your own Christmas parties, KZN finance MEC tells civil servants

The provincial gravy plane has been shot down by drastic travel restrictions

Nhlalayenza Ndlovu was shot multiple times in December 2023. Photo supplied

Man accused of murdering KZN DA councillor Ndlovu abandons bail bid, for now

Thobane Hlongwa is believed to have evidence that could expose the masterminds behind the assassination plot

In KwaZulu-Natal, the votes of next week’s by-election will be a test of whether the uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) party is able to consolidate — at local government level — the electoral gains made on 29 May, when it took 45% of the vote in the province. (Leon Sadiki/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

MK party set to test electoral gains in 23 by-elections next week

The battered Economic Freedom Fighters has not fielded candidates for any Durban by-elections

DA’s Francois Rodgers advocates for strict compliance, clean audits in KZN treasury budget vote

Rodgers, the new finance MEC, said he would cut subsistence and travel by 25%. In the last financial year, under the ANC, R1 billion was spent on S&T

The MKP’s Mervyn Dirks led its MPLs out of the legislature chamber in Pietermaritzburg in protest against the election of the whips and committee chairs going ahead. Photo  supplied

MK Party walks out as KwaZulu-Natal Legislature elects committee chairs

Influential committee posts are shared among the members of the province’s governing coalition

KwaZulu-Natal premier Thami Ntuli.  Photo: Mbuso Kunene

Premier Thami Ntuli appoints multi-party cabinet in KZN, prioritises crime and service delivery

The Inkatha Freedom Party, ANC, Democratic Alliance and National Freedom Party are represented in the provincial cabinet

DA leader John Steenhuisen, with provincial DA leader Francois Rodgers in the background, during door-to-door campaigning in KwaZulu-Natal on Wednesday. Photo: Democratic Alliance

DA leader Steenhuisen sees KZN as ‘wide open’ for coalition win

The leader of the official opposition has been working key wards in north and west Durban ahead of the party’s close of campaigning on Sunday

Civil servants demonstrate during a public sector strike.

KZN faces R4bn budget deficit because of national public sector wage agreement

The Democratic Alliance said key provincial departments such as health and education do not have the funds to meet the wage increases