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Detectives from Kabega Park in Gqeberha are seeking the community's assistance in identifying a man who was a victim of a gruesome accident on Wednesday. Spokesperson Colonel Priscilla Naidu says police responded to a complaint of a body lying on the N2 between the St Albans/Blue Horizon Bay and Greensbushes off-ramp.

More than 100 EC learners from two Komani schools in hospital in food poisoning scare.

The largest relocation process of vultures, ever undertaken, is currently underway in the Eastern Cape. This is after the Department of Forestry Fisheries and Environment gave the green light to move the first tranche of 155 birds to their new home at Shamwari.

The problem of vandalism and theft of essential infrastructure in Nelson Mandela Bay Metro seems to continue unabated, especially in Despatch. This is according to DA Councillor for Ward 52, Frans Swanepoel. He was reacting to a viral video doing the rounds on social media, which was filmed in Ooievaar Crescent in Reservoir Hills, about two weeks ago.

Astronomer from Nxuba (formerly Cradock), Dr Vanessa McBride, has been appointed Science Director at the International Science Council (ISC), in Paris. Dr McBride will now be rubbing shoulders with the most distinguished scientists from around the world as she works towards the ISC vision of science as a global public good. The ISC is a non-governmental organization with a unique global membership that brings together over 220 international scientific unions and associations as well as national and regional scientific organizations including academies and research councils.

Judgment is expected on Thursday in the High Court in Makhanda in the trial of an EC man facing a string of child sex offences.

Van Niekerk gives a mixed report on his first 100 days in office.

The Enyobeni trial will continue in the East London Magistrate's Court on 29 November after tavern owners Siyakhangela and Vuyokazi Ndevu took the stand this week to give their version of events on the night 21 young people died in June last year.

Justice has prevailed for a 74-year-old woman who was raped and strangled in her Riversdale home in January this year. The Mossel Bay Regional Court sentenced the 19-year-old Pieter Swart to 33 years in prison on Tuesday.