National Assembly chair speaks on SONA readiness

" Look what I have now, a creation. A creation, waiting to be read and this is not the end. This is just the beginning." Those are the words of 9-year-old Imari-Kenya James from the Bluff, the creator of a colouring book "One thing about two things”.

Agriculture Minister John Steenhuisen has heard emotional stories from dozens of dairy farmers in the KwaZulu-Natal Midlands devastated by the ongoing foot-and-mouth disease outbreak. On Friday, Steenhuisen officially launched the country’s mass vaccination campaign in KZN, the epicentre of the outbreak.

The sister of a Durban pilot who died in a plane crash in the North West says he was just two hours away from qualifying as a flight instructor. Leeche Manuel died during a training flight last week.

The Community Policing Forum in Westville says the murder of a motorist in an apparent hit has left the suburb, west of Durban shaken.

A KZN woman says she's still healing and will soon begin therapy a week after miraculously walking out of a horrific accident that saw her vehicle plunge down a cliff.