The families of the Cato Manor 9 should be treated "on the same level" as the struggle heroes of Sharpeville and other children of struggle stalwarts. These were the sentiments which the chairperson ...

In the shack lands of Cato Manor in Durban, everything is a hustle. If you want to find a room, you have to know someone. If you want to connect to illegal electricity, you have to pay someone. Cato ...

A journalist once found by a court to be responsible for ‘cowardly acts of terror’ is trying his best to discredit the Sunday Times investigations team. Normally we ignore such small fry, but we ...

Sustained tensions surrounding shack evictions and protest action in Cato Manor boiled over on Tuesday when private security‚ riot police and shack dwellers clashed. A group of about 200 protesters ...

Their seven-year-long ordeal has ended, and now members of what was termed the Cato Manor “death squad” are preparing to sue the State. Following the withdrawal of charges, including racketeering and ...

Durban - Cato Manor is famous for the race riots of 1949 and the women-led beer hall protests a decade later. “But what about the slaughter of nine police officers on a patrol to seek out illegal ...

When the wind is still, a strange and pungent odor rises over the pleasant resort city of Durban on the Indian Ocean. It comes usually from the tin-shanty slum of Cato Manor to the west, where, ever ...