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Birdlife South Africa has admitted that a statement issued on Saturday about a new bird species was false and a PR stunt. Several media organisations who carried the news, some with live interviews, were left nose out of joint after it emerged

The search is due to resume on Thursday morning for a man swept away in a raging Elands River on a farm in the Uitenhage area late on Tuesday afternoon.  Police Warrant Officer Gerda Swart says two men, who were part of a company

The DA in Nelson Mandela Bay says it will oppose any proposal to sell off the buses that were bought for the Metro's Integrated Public Transport System. DA caucus leader, Retief Odendaal, says they reject and denounce a proposal at a Council

More than 6 000 Eskom customers are being affected by a power outage in East London.  Eskom's Ntosh Mafumbata says the Buffalo sub station went down during the night.  The outage is affecting the Southern Coastal side of

A relative of the man who allegedly shot and killed Port Elizabeth teacher, Jayde Panayiotou, appeared in court on Tuesday also on a charge of murder. Twenty-four-year-old Thanduxolo Vumazonke appeared in court alongside with Fikile Mengo and

Eastern Cape Premier, Phumulo Masualle, has declared two major accidents this weekend which claimed 46 lives, provincial disasters. Thirty-six people were killed when a bus crashed on the R408 gravel road between Butterworth and Willowvale on

Situation Report regarding the severe weather and flooding event within the Eden DM area. Bitou:  -    Road closed along Piesang Valley -    Main road to Wittedrift has been closed. -    Old

Good falls of rain have been recorded in the catchment areas of Nelson Mandela Bay's main supply dams in the past 48 hours.  The Port Elizabeth branch of the SA Weather Service reports that 72.8 millimetres of rain was measured at

Port Elizabeth police have arrested a third suspect in connection with the murder of 78-year-old Denise Marlene Webber of Kabega Park. Police spokesperson, Captain Sandra Janse Van  Rensburg, the 24-year-old suspect was arrested in New