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EC police are searching for the gunmen who shot and killed four men in a locality at Ugie on Saturday night.

The Democratic Alliance in the Eastern Cape says it’s pleased that the party’s call for the deployment of national specialised crime fighting units to the crime-ridden and gang-infested Nelson Mandela Bay (NMB) is now under consideration by the Minister of Police, Bheki Cele. In a media statement on Sunday, the DA said its provincial leader Andrew Whitfield wrote to the minister on 2 October 2023 and finally received a response on 29 December 2023 – nearly 90 days later.

Police in Plettenberg Bay opened an inquest docket after a 57-year-old man disappeared near the Bloukrans Bridge on Wednesday.

A God-fearing woman whose smile lit up the rooms she entered and a person who dearly loved her family. These were just some of the tributes shared during the funeral service of Cheryl Ann Kannemeyer on Friday.

Three people were killed and two sustained serious injuries after a vehicle overturned on the R61 between Aberdeen and Beaufort West in the Karoo on Wednesday afternoon.

While the traumatised family and friends of Cheryl Ann Kannemeyer are still battling to come to terms with her death, her husband appeared in the Gqeberha Magistrates Court on Tuesday in connection with her murder.

The Eastern Cape welcomed 200 New Year’s Day babies, with the first being a boy who was born shortly after midnight on Monday at Mount Ayliff Hospital.

The death toll in Sunday's accident on the N2 between Idutywa and Mthatha has risen to eight.

Six people were killed in a head-on collision on the N2 between Idutywa and Mthatha on Sunday.