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The Nelson Mandela Bay municipality has laid a charge with the police on the damage caused to the Statue of Queen Victoria in the Port Elizabeth City Centre.  The statue was covered in green paint during the night in the latest attack on

A 25-year old man is expected to appear in the Mdantsane Magistrates court on Friday.  Charges against him relate to the possession of a cellphone belonging to a 10-year old girl who went missing last weekend. Police spokesperson, Captain

A 15 year old appeared in the George Regional Court on a charge of rape after he allegedly raped a 7 year old boy last week.  The incident happened on Thursday after a group of children played in the Golden Valley area.  The children

Grahamstown police have opened a culpable homicide docket following the death of a severely disabled man in Market Street on Thursday night.  Captain Govender says the man had non-functioning legs and used to get around by dragging himself

Police are investigating a case of culpable homicide, after a hitchhiker was run over on the N2 near Mossel Bay on Thursday night.  The person, whose identity is unknown, was allegedly hit by a truck, after which another vehicle drove over

The man who drowned earlier this week in a swimming pool in Umhlanga in KwaZulu-Natal, has been identified as a former Port Elizabeth resident. He was 36-year-old Lyall Anthony Nicholas Crofton, who had since left the city. Crofton won a

A complaint of domestic violence attended to by two police officials saved the life of a 2-month-old baby girl from being squeezed to death by her mother, who was later admitted to Uitenhage Provincial Hospital for mental observation.  The

A 23-year old man is expected to appear in the Port Elizabeth Magistrates on Friday morning on charges of possession and dealing in drugs to the value of approximately R560 000. Police spokesperson, Brigadier Hangwani Mulaudzi says the man was

A farmer from the Tarkastad district will be sentenced in the Queenstown Regional Court on Friday after being convicted of stock theft on the 26th of January. Twenty nine year-old Antonie Noppe van Heerden was found guilty of unlawfully moving