The launch comes as South Africa’s official unemployment rate stood at 42.6% in Q3 2025, despite recent claims that joblessness is ...

Students at Coastal KZN TVET College in uMlazi V-section campus are protesting against alleged armed intimidation by a local businessman forcing them into substandard accommodation. The protests ...

U.S. singer Jacquees visited Umlazi and Umhlanga during his recent trip to South Africa. He even tried Durban's famous mutton curry.

Elderly residents at Ekhanana Old Age Home in Durban’s Umlazi township are facing a growing health and safety crisis after the facility was left without electricity and continues to battle severe ...

The AFRO knows what it’s like to endure challenging times. John H. Murphy, Sr., a former enslaved man founded the AFRO in 1892 with $200 from his wife, Martha Howard Murphy. Together they created a ...

Linda Sikhakhane is a South African born saxophonist, composer and arranger. He was born in Umlazi Township near Durban where his love for music was triggered at an early age. This saw him attending ...

Academic and author Dr Sipho Sithole follows a long line of South African creative minds finding themselves in lecture halls in the United States. Zakes Mda, Joel Cabrita, Nadine Gordimer, Es’kia ...

A fifth suspect in the murder case of Jacob Khoaele, who was the regional manager at Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (Prasa), has been arrested by the police. The suspect, Khethukuthula Mthethwa ...

In July 2024, we published a story with the headline: "One of the 7 people cured of HIV tells his story. Can his cure work for others." This summer, at the International AIDS Society conference, came ...