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EC Safety MEC appeals to the public for help in identifying the culprits who petrol-bombed a police station this week.

State Advocate Ismat Cerfontein brought the application for Judge Denzil Potgieter to recuse himself while the trial was underway last year, based on a reasonable apprehension of bias.

The Gqeberha anti-gang unit is requesting the public’s assistance in locating two people who were kidnapped in separate, unrelated incidents in Kwazakhele and Korsten.

Gqeberha police are searching for five men who robbed passengers on a bus travelling on the R-75 on Friday.

The murder trial of Vicki Terblanche is set to continue in the Gqeberha High Court on Friday, where the state will call its next witness. State Advocate Marius Stander told the court that he would only call six more witnesses and that some had to be flown in from out of town.

The Nelson Mandela Bay executive mayor Babalwa Lobishe says in her first 100 days in office she and her mayoral committee have rallied together to deliver services to people of the Metro

Dylan Cullis, who took a plea deal with the state, testified on Wednesday how murder accused Reinhardt Leach approached him in the holding cells shortly after their arrest, asking him to take the fall for the crime.

The Kariega businessman who was kidnapped on Tuesday in front of his workplace is back home after being located by police that same evening.

Closing arguments will be heard in April.