South Africa’s KwaZulu-Natal health department expanded its registrar program in 2019 from 314 to 414, but, according to a leaked memo, it aimed to fill the 100 new posts with only black candidates. Departmental spokesperson Ncumisa Mafunda said historical redress was a government imperative and “the morally and socially right thing to do”. “South Africa, including KwaZulu-Natal, remains an... 

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... 

Hundreds of black African cannibals have engaged in huge feasts on human flesh this year in the South African town of Estcourt, KwaZulu-Natal Province, a local government official has admitted—a day after four locals appeared in court charged with murder and conspiracy. According to a report in South Africa’s News24 news service, more than 300—out of a village of only 971—have admitted to... 

One in four South African men questioned in a survey said they had raped someone, and nearly half of them admitted more than one attack. The study, by the country’s Medical Research Council, also found three out of four who admitted rape had attacked for the first time during their teens. It said practices such as gang rape were common because they were considered a form of male bonding. The... 

Just a taste of what it will be like for 350,000 foreign football fans at the FIFA WC2010 in South Africa? Pretoria-born businessman Christo Viljoen, 57, who had fled from the city’s crime to Ballito at the KwaZulu-Natal coast two years ago, travelled back to his beloved home town to cheer on the Blue Bulls in the Super14 semifinal rugby tournament at the Loftus Versfeld stadium. The Afrikaner had...