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Yasantha Naidoo

Yasantha Naidoo has used words and facts to help reflect the story of the day, week and hour for more than 20 years. She is based in Durban.

Soliders were deployed to incidents of looting at several shops in Clermont, west of Durban, on Tuesday night. Picture:

Looting and gunshots as protesters keep police, army and private security busy

No incidents of violence and looting during June 30 march in Durban, but shops in some suburbs were ransacked on Tuesday night

  • Mlungisi Mhlophe-Gumede
  • Yasantha Naidoo
A group of about 400 Malawians have been moved off the main site of the Durban drive-in and are waiting for buses to relocate them to Musina in Limpopo before they are repatriated to their home country. Picture:

IN PICS | Mammoth clean-up at Durban drive-in while about 400 Malawians wait for buses

A massive clean-up operation began at the Durban drive-in site, which had housed about 20,000 Malawian nationals, while about 400 people awaited transportation to Musina, Limpopo

  • Yasantha Naidoo
Spokes­per­son Prince Thu­lani Zulu sought to ease ten­sions, mak­ing it clear that the Zulu mon­arch had neither called for nor endorsed the marches. Picture:

Immigration marches not a Zulu campaign, says king

King Mis­u­zulu kaZwe­l­ith­ini fully sup­ports the con­sti­tu­tional right of cit­izens to protest but would never con­done viol­ence or attacks on any indi­vidual

  • Lizeka Tandwa
  • Thabo Mokone
  • Yasantha Naidoo
  • Kgothatso Madisa
Members of March and March protest in Pietermaritzburg, KwaZulu-Natal, on Friday. Residents of the Jika Joe informal settlement have claimed men armed with sticks, allegedly from the march, attacked foreigners, which left one Malawian dead. Picture:

Foreigner allegedly beaten to death, others assaulted in PMB informal settlement

Tensions are running high at an informal settlement in Pietermaritzburg where a Malawian man was allegedly stoned to death and others beaten

  • Yasantha Naidoo
  • Mlungisi Mhlophe-Gumede
More than 1,200 Malawian men, women and children arrived in Blantyre as part of a voluntary repatriation exercise from SA to escape violence and threats. Picture:

More than 1,200 repatriated men, women and children ‘safe’ on Malawian soil

Successfully repatriated Malawians say they feel safe after the ‘life-threatening’ situations they experienced in South Africa

  • Yasantha Naidoo
Police fired stun grenades to control protesting crowds of Malawians who don't want to be moved from an encampment at Sherwood Park in Durban.

WATCH | Police fire stun grenades at protesting Malawians over deportation move

Police fired stun grenades at a group of Malawian nationals who allegedly turned on home affairs officials at the encampment in Sherwood Park in Durban on Wednesday.

  • Yasantha Naidoo
First-time Comrades runner Sthembiso Mkhize was hospitalised with serious injuries after a car crash in March. Picture:

From hospital bed to running the Comrades

Two first-time entrants in this year's 99th edition of the Comrades Marathon are an athlete who was in a serious car crash in March and a runner who ran 100km in less than six hours

  • Yasantha Naidoo
A Zimbali resident's request to keep a small dog has triggered a governance war and two high court challenges. File photo

No pet policy sets the cats among the pigeons at Zimbali Estate

The right to keep a pet at the luxury Zimbali eco-estate has split residents and triggered a governance fight and two high court challenges

  • Yasantha Naidoo