ECR Newswatch Interviews
Hear the latest news soundbytes or interviews from KZN's No. 1 news team: East Coast Radio Newswatch. © East Coast Radio.
Correctional Services Choir up their game ahead of global choir contest
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Fifty-five correctional services officials are warming up their voices ahead of the World Choir Games - now coming to South Africa.
Teen graduate, Bulelani Mazibuko speaks about being the youngest among his peers, and his what inspires him
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Hear the latest news soundbytes or interviews from KZN's No. 1 news team: East Coast Radio Newswatch. © East Coast Radio.
KZN Education says sanitary pads are SANBS aligned
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KZN Education has disputed claims that the quality of the sanitary pads it's supplying to hundreds of poor schools in the province.
Resident speaks about two-year wait for VISAs
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Frustrated residents have complained about travelling to branches far away from home to get documents at Home Affairs. Germaine Staley from the Western Cape says she had to wait two years to reinstate visas for her children.
Kloof and Highway SPCA releases African rock python back into the wild
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The Kloof and Highway SPCA has bid bon voyage to an African Rock Python it took in last month. Inspectors were called out to Embo Valley in mid-March, after receiving reports that a local dog had been killed by a large snake in the area.
NPA raids Gupta family compund in Saxonwold
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The National Prosecuting Authority has confirmed a raid is currently taking place at the Gupta family's Saxonwold compound in Johannesburg.
Woman killed in Hans Dettman Highway crash
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A woman was killed in a three-car pile-up on the Hans Dettman Highway near Shallcross. Rescue Care’s Garrith Jamieson…
Shembe Church welcomes PMB High Court succession ruling
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Shembe Church spokesperson, Silindelo Bhengu spoke to Newswatch outside the Pietermaritzburg High Court - welcoming the ruling that the rightful leader of the Shembe Church is the late Vela Shembe.
Analyst, Imraan Buccus describes de Lille's political stance below
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A political analyst believes the recent decision by DA member, Patricia de Lille, to honour Winnie Madikzela-Mandela at an EFF-led event was her way of sending a message to her own party.
Mam' Winnie suffered immensely - Duarte
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The ANC's deputy secretary-general, Jessie Duarte has been paying tribute to Winnie Madikizela-Mandela - saying the country has lost a powerful voice as far as the land issue's concerned. Duarte says Mam' Winnie endured so much during apartheid.
Community input needed, says Camperdown business owner
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Police and security personnel have intervened and quelled the chaos that erupted earlier at the launch of a gave reserve in Camperdown by government. Some community members claim they weren't consulted about developments on the land. This local business owner says he empathizes with the locals.
Police yet to identify woman linked to human head found in Mandeni
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Police say the body recovered from a sugarcane field in Mandeni is yet to be identified. Police in northern KZN found the headless body of a woman whose head was found in Mandeni earlier in the week.
SASSA introduces new social grant cards
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Social security agency - SASSA will launch the new SA Post Office card on Monday.
2019 fully booked for Ladysmith Black Mambazo
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Ladysmith Black Mambazo will be in SA until next week, before jetting off to London, where they'll perform for Queen Elizabeth at her 92nd birthday celebration. Founding member, Albert Mazibuko…
Medics try to save victims of PMB house fire
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Kaylim Naidoo, who is with Daymed Ambulance Services, was one of the first paramedics on the scene of a fatal fire at a PMB home. He says firefighters had pulled the bodies of the family members out of the home earlier.
Owner says safety precautions followed in CBD fire
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The owners of the old Lonsdale Hotel say the student accommodation on the upper levels of the multi-storey edifice was not affected by a blaze there earlier today. The Dass Group's Shamim Ramjeewon says safety precautions were followed during the incident.
KZN school earns top spot in Nelson Mandela Debating Challenge-Part2
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A KZN school has been crowned the winners of the Nelson Mandela Debating Challenge 2018.
KZN school earns top spot in Nelson Mandela Debating Challenge -Part1
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A KZN school has been crowned the winners of the Nelson Mandela Debating Challenge 2018.
Orlando West High School teacher, class attend Madikizela-Mandela memorial
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The 37 000 seater Orlando Stadium is still filling up, as mourners stream into the venue ahead of Winnie Madikizela-Mandela's memorial service. Rose Zingitwa, a teacher from Orlando West High School in Soweto, is there with her matric class.
Phoenix assault case - Residents stand behind five-year-old victim
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Residents have gathered outside the Verulam Magistrates Court this morning, where a woman and her boyfriend are due to appear over the brutal assault of the woman's 4-year-old daughter.