A traditional healer in South Africa has been sentenced to life for ordering the murder and beheading of an Indian mother-of-one, whose head he planned to use in his rituals. The witch doctor was also a racist who specifically targeted either white, half white or Indian which is also white-ish for his rituals. 34-year-old Sibonakaliso Mbili, a shaman from the coastal KwaZulu-Natal province, promised... 

What happens when black people in South Africa protest immigration by other blacks and then black cops arrest them? Well, one thing that doesn’t happen is that the Western media does not give it a bunch of coverage and call the protesters evil racists for protesting immigration, as they would do to whites in America. They also interestingly do not call them victims of police brutality when they... 

Durban photographer Snowy Smith is waging a one-man war with the city, using his growing armoury of by now 7,000 pictures proving that the city is no longer a pristine tourist mecca, but a filthy slum instead. A photographer in Durban, South Africa is waging a lone battle against the city’s claims that the Indian-ocean harbour city is a clean, well-run, safe tourist mecca. Oceanside resident... 

“I CAN’T wait for my feet to heal properly so I can wear my first pair of shoes.” This was the excited response of one of the Mthembu twins, Bongiwe, as she and her sister Bongekile left Inkosi Albert Luthuli Hospital yesterday after successful operations. The twins were born with deformed feet and hands. Bongiwe and Bongekile, from Jozini, were admitted to the Durban hospital last week to have... 

A Durban nurse who was gang-raped for six hours, while her fiance watched helplessly, says she lives her life in fear of it happening again. And while she got “some closure” this week, when one of her rapists was sentenced to three life terms plus 27 years’ imprisonment, the 40-year-old woman says her life will never be the same. After the sentencing of Tandaso Peterson Nombele,... 

Jessica Foord, a 22-year-old woman who was gang-raped in Durban, has spoken up bravely about her ordeal – and has also become an inspiring motivational speaker in her campaign for the rights of rape-victims. Her rapists were sentenced to long prison sentences in Durban on March 16 2009. Uniformed pupils holding candles gathered outside the Durban High Court in South Africa Monday ahead of the... 

The SA Police Explosives Unit confirmed on Wednesday that an uncleared Chinese vessel docked at the outer anchorage of the Port of Durban is carrying arms.Customs revealed that the shipment was destined for Zimbabwe. Inspector Nicholas Gunther of the SA Explosives Unit in Durban told Sapa the vessel – called ‘An Yue Jiang’ – was carrying a shipment of arms. “We went there... 

As the United Nations begins to gear up for another world conference in 2009 to review the outcomes from its discredited 2001 World Conference Against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance, governments and NGOs have a responsibility to say “not again.” Not again to virulent anti-Semitism, not again to vile demonizing and delegitimizing of Israel, not again to...