Public site, private road: the Tinley Manor lockout.

It Has Never Been Easier to Register. So Why Are So Few? The North Coast is one of the fastest-growing regions in the country, with new homes and new families arriving every month. Yet on the last registration weekend, just 2 941 people across all 30 wards in KwaDukuza put…

After years of relentless load shedding and blackouts, many households turned to solar as a last line of defence. But now they could be punished for the very solution that helped take pressure off the grid. This week on Uncensored, renewable energy expert Warwick Chapman helps us separate the noise…

On the North Coast, court orders have stopped meaning anything. Landowners win evictions that are never enforced. A municipality is ordered to act and does nothing. Land is bought, sold and occupied outside the law, while a shadow economy of plot syndicates grows unchecked. Property law specialist Attorney Gavin Steinhobel…

Your voting station may have changed Ward boundaries across KwaDukuza have been redrawn, and a number of voting stations have moved, ahead of the local government elections on November 4. In this episode of Uncensored, we speak to Paul Daniel of the Electoral Commission’s iLembe office, and Mary Kassam, chief…

The North Coast is growing fast but the electricity infrastructure is not keeping pace. This week on Uncensored, we unpack the Dukuza Bulk Substation funding gap, what the council documents say, what “considered” actually means in municipal finance, and why a project described as essential has no confirmed money behind…