Artists have staged a sit-in at the council's offices in Newtown demanding that the funds be paid.

On 5 March 2020, Health Minister Zweli Mkhize announced that a 38-year-old KwaZulu-Natal man who had just returned from Italy had tested positive.

The police said that the officer was killed by unknown gunmen near a secondary school in the Roseneath area.

The court set the 17 May as the date for the commencement of the trial, following input from both the State and the accused.

Zuma and Thales face corruption, money laundering and racketeering charges linked to the multibillion-rand arms deal.

State prosecutor Advocate Billy Downer said that an agreement had been reached with the lawyers of Jacob Zuma and French arms firm, Thales, for the trial to commence on 17 May.

In terms of today's court proceedings, the State and accused are expected to finalise pre-trial matters.

The accused were last seen in court in December when the matter was postponed following an application by Thales to have the racketeering charges against it dropped.

While speaking at an ANC-led virtual panel discussion on Sunday, Zuma said the party had often avoided the matter for fear of being branded as xenophobic.

Zuma said it’s up to the electorate to ensure that elected officials do better.

Zuma said while he understands that the country’s post-apartheid justice system was devised to ensure fairness, this weakened the pursuit of justice.

Zuma said debates in the National Legislature are geared towards short-term electoral gains and do little to drive social cohesion.

In January, the Durban High Court granted Visham Panday an order giving him access to information held by the university regarding a pay-for-placement scandal at the institution's Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine.

The contents of the meeting were not yet revealed, but it came against the backdrop of Jacob Zuma's refusal to co-operate with the State Capture Commission despite the ANC's stance on the inquiry.

Police Minister and ANC NEC member Bheki Cele’s motorcade was initially blocked by members of the MKMVA, who have been stationed outside Jacob Zuma’s home since earlier this week.

KZN has received 10,800 of the 80,000 Johnson & Johnson vaccine doses that have touched down in the country so far.

A leaked 2016 forensic report by accounting firm KPMG, seen by Eyewitness News, detailed several student admission anomalies at the University of KwaZulu-Natal’s medical school.

In a long statement issued on Monday night, former President Jacob Zuma repeated his long-held claim that the Zondo Commission was part of a well-orchestrated plan to remove him from office.