Daily News (Free subscription) | yesterday
The case of a Pietermaritzburg teenager who was arrested while allegedly paying a "hitman" to kill her ex-boyfriend's mother was postponed in the Randfontein Magistrate's Court yesterday for further investigation.
IOL (Free subscription) | 12/01/2009
A Pietermaritzburg High Court judge has avoided making a ruling on whether to stop a bull killing ritual.
IOL (Free subscription) | 12/01/2009
A bigger court had to be used to accommodate the crowd of people at the bull-killing case in Pietermaritzburg.
Daily News (Free subscription) | 11/30/2009
A couple was attacked on a farm in Richmond, near Pietermaritzburg, this morning in a second such attack in as many days.
IOL (Free subscription) | 11/30/2009
A couple has been attacked on a farm in Richmond, near Pietermaritzburg, in a second such attack in as many days.
I Luv SA (Free subscription) | 11/28/2009
... at the police," Radebe said. The men had been cornered by the police in Crammond area outside Pietermaritzburg, she said. Dorning, 55, was killed when three armed men confronted him and his wife on their farm Adamshurs early this month. Dorning, farmer and a doctor by profession, was a chief of staff in the KwaZulu-Natal premier's office and retired in July. According to police reports...
Scotsman.com (Free subscription) | 12/01/2009
Pietersen, who was born in Pietermaritzburg, will be back at what was once his home ground this week as England seek to convert a 2-1 lead into a notable one-day international series victory over South Africa.The timing might have been better, ADVERTISEMENTthough, for the 29-year-old – still only five matches into his England comeback after four months out with injury and with just 52 runs from...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 11/30/2009
Andy Flower warns England must stay patient with Kevin Pietersen - even if the man himself finds it hard to do the same in his search for a major innings. Pietermaritzburg-born Pietersen will be back at what was once his home ground this week as England seek to convert a 2-1 lead into a notable one-day international series victory over South Africa. The timing might have been better, though,...
IOL (Free subscription) | 11/30/2009
By Sharika Regchand Pietermaritzburg BureauMop-up operations were in full swing this weekend after a storm, with hailstones the size of eggs, battered areas of the Amajuba (Newcastle) District Municipality on Friday, leaving 1 000 people homeless.Lindani Dladla, head of disaster management, said teams had been sent from door to door to ascertain how many households had been affected. Homes in...
IOL (Free subscription) | 11/30/2009
By Sharika Regchand Pietermaritzburg BureauMop-up operations were in full swing this weekend after a storm, with hailstones the size of eggs, battered areas of the Amajuba (Newcastle) District Municipality on Friday, leaving 1 000 people homeless.Lindani Dladla, head of disaster management, said teams had been sent from door to door to ascertain how many households had been affected. Homes in...
IOL (Free subscription) | 11/30/2009
... waiting time for ARVs drastically."We have implemented the same strategy at Edendale Hospital in Pietermaritzburg and the problem of long wait for drugs has been solved. We are in the process of rolling it out to other districts because it reduces unnecessary waiting, which leads to death."
IOL (Free subscription) | 11/30/2009
Three people were seriously injured and five sustained minor injuries in two accidents in KwaZulu-Natal on Monday morning, paramedics said."Five people were injured in Pietermaritzburg when a taxi crashed into the back of a bakkie. A man was trapped and paramedics had to use the jaws of life to free him," said Netcare 911 spokesperson Jeff Wicks.One of those injured was in a serious condition...
IOL (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
Yet another of the victims of the alleged Midlands serial rapist testified in the Pietermaritzburg High Court, giving a chilling account of her attacker's modus operandi.
IOL (Free subscription) | 11/29/2009
... was murdered earlier this month at their picturesque farm and nursery.Crack detectives from Pietermaritzburg's Serious and Violent Crime Unit, led by Superintendent Piet Scott, swooped on the suspects in Thokozani township, near Crammond, early yesterday, shooting one suspect, Spamandlalala Madlala, 37, dead when he reportedly fired on police.
Daily News (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
Two children - a six-year-old boy and an eight-year-old girl were seriously injured after they were hit by a taxi on Edendale Road, Pietermaritzburg, this morning.
