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At least three people drowned and a number of others are missing at various beaches around the coast as thousands of people flocked to the beaches on New Year's Day. The NSRI says the search will continue for the body of a ten year-old boy

King Zwelibanzi Dalindyebo’s arrest on Wednesday means that the AbaThembu nation is left without a leader and the royal family have been urged to step into the breach. Spokesperson for the AbaThembu nation, Daludumo Mtirara, said this meant

The South African Police Service in the Eastern Cape is urging the public to strictly adhere to the restrictions issued with regard to the taking of alcohol to beaches and the setting off of fireworks on New Year's eve tonight.  Major

AbaThembu King Buyelekhaya Dalindyebo spent his first night behind bars on Wednesday night. This after a Mthatha High Court judge dismissed his application to have his bail extended, pending the outcome of a review application. ENCA reports

Cradock police arrested a 26 year old mother on Tuesday for child abandonment.  Captain Stefanie Smith said this follows the discovery of a week old baby boy in a water-furrow in Queen Street, Cradock, on Tuesday morning.  It is

Port Elizabeth police are appealing to the public to make use of the identification tag programme on their young children this festive season, specifically on New year's day on Friday. New year's day typically sees a lot of young children

A mother and her 7- year-old son have been taken to hospital for observation after nearly drowning at Plettenberg Bay. The NSRI's Craig Lambinon said the two were swimming around an anchored houseboat in the Poortjies Lagoon on the Keurbooms

Matriculants who wrote the Independent Examinations Board (IEB) exams achieved a 98.3% pass rate in 2015 — a result that is comparable to that achieved in the previous year. The results, announced shortly after midnight on Tuesday,  

Port Elizabeth police have arrested a 27-year-old suspect in connection with this morning's house robbery in Pari Park. Spokesperson, Captain Sandra Janse van Rensburg, says three suspect armed with sharp objects, broke into the house in