Concerns have been raised about illegal building practices in Durban. Niki Moore from the Problem Properties NPO highlights ...

DURBAN - The eThekwini Municipality has picked up where it left off last year, resuming monthly building inspection raids. The municipality identified “problem” buildings that did not meet building ...

In a high-rise apartment in downtown Durban, Tizzie Gomba surveys her tidy little home with obvious satisfaction. It’s modest, clean and safe. Best of all, it allows the 43-year-old office worker and ...

Last Friday, search and rescue teams were called to the scene of a four-storey building under construction in Verulam that ...

Following the fire in a Johannesburg hijacked building that killed more than 70 people, Daily Maverick revisited some of the dilapidated buildings in the city of Durban, where crime and grime are fast ...

KwaZulu-Natal emergency teams are locked in a desperate race against time to save lives after a four-storey building ...

Minister of Public Works and Infrastructure Dean Macpherson and eThekwini mayor Cyril Xaba are forming a joint technical task team to tackle “bad buildings” in Durban. Macpherson told journalists on ...

THE dilapidated Trafalgar Place on Rutherford Road off Mahatma Gandhi Road, was demolished on Friday, as the city embarked on a mission to rid itself of a plague of problem buildings which have become ...

Durban - WHILE the Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (Prasa) deliberates on security-related tenders, two of its buildings have been stripped of copper and metal in Durban. The recently ...

The Durban building collapse tragedy has claimed more lives, with officials confirming rising casualties and ongoing recovery ...

There were no injuries when a three-storey Durban building caught fire in the early hours of Tuesday. The fire affected two foreign-owned shops and an “unregistered” students' accommodation facility.