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Knysna Executive Mayor Councillor Georlene Wolmarans has shuffled her Mayoral Committee at a Special Council Meeting this week. She announced that Cllr Elrick van Aswegen (COPE) will be added to the MAYCO with immediate effect, replacing Cllr Ray

The country's official opposition party will have a new leader by the end of this weekend. Close on one and a half thousand delegates will vote for a successor to outgoing DA leader, Helen Zille, at the party's federal congress in Nelson

Eastern Cape Social Development MEC, Nancy Sihlwayi, has welcomed the jail sentences imposed on a farmer and local woman in a child sex case. The 60-year-old farmer and a domestic worker, reportedly 36-year-old, pleaded guilty on Thursday to 28

East London Police have discovered a body of a baby at Emerald Sky Flats in Amalinda on Thursday morning. Police spokesperson Captain Mluleki Mbi told Algoa FM News that a caretaker at the flats found the body in a black garbage bag within the

Thirty one-year-old Luthando Siyoni made another brief appearance in the Port Elizabeth magistrate's court on Thursday in connection with the murder of PE teacher, Jayde Panayiotou. Algoa FM News reporter, Raahil Sain, has more on this story

An Eastern Cape farmer and a woman from Stutterheim are expected to enter into a plea agreement with the state following their arrest in a child prostitution case. They reportedly face 28 charges that include sexual exploitation of a child and

Residents of Sterkstroom in the Eastern Cape will reportedly take to the streets today to protest over a lack of electricity to the town since Monday.   Local resident, Ronel Opperman, told Algoa FM News on Thursday that locals are now

The cause of a fire that damaged a restaurant and other buildings on Knysna's Thesen Island is under investigation. Knysna/Plett Herald reports that fire started shortly after eight last night at the well-known Ile de Pain restaurant

Two suspects, arrested in connection with the murder of an elderly nun in KZN, have abandoned their bail application in a Kwazulu Natal court. The men aged 25 and 35 made a brief appearance in court on Wednesday.  Austrian-born Gertrud