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The senior official at Buffalo City Metro Municipality who was gunned down in a hail of bullets on Wednesday afternoon has been identified as Nceba Ncutyana. The incident which claimed the Metro's General Manager for infrastructure took place on the N2 highway near Ntabozuko (formerly known as Berlin ) between East London and King Williams Town.

A businessman from Mossel Bay who allegedly took people's deposits for solar panels without doing the work has appeared in court. A 45-year-old Andre Boshoff made his first appearance in the Mossel Bay Magistrate's Court on Wednesday on charges of fraud of thousands of rand.

The man who brutally murdered a Gqeberha physiotherapist, Marolien Schmidt, did so for the mere R600 he gained from selling her cell phone.

Mossel Bay fisherman reels in giant cod at Dana Bay

At least 22 children are among the reported 180 people killed in gang-related shootings Gqeberha in the past three years - with the majority of the murders having taken place in the city's notorious northern areas. That is according to statistics provided by the Eastern Cape Department of Community Safety that was responding to questions by the Democratic Alliance in the provincial legislature.

Parents and teachers of hundreds of Gqeberha learners who may miss out on taking part in a marching drill competition due to a funding debacle, have expressed anger at Eastern Cape Education authorities. Budgetary constraints have led to the Provincial Department withdrawing pre-approved funding for their participation in the Western Cape Schools Marching Drill competition this Saturday.

The wife of an Eastern Cape farmer appeared briefly in the Kariega Magistrates Court earlier today in connection with her husband's murder. Natasha Van Eck allegedly shot her husband, Gideon, in self-defence at the couple's farm just outside of Kariega, in November last year.

Coega SEZ Green Ammonia plant to supply Japan, Korea, and Europe, according to Hive Energy.

The Buffalo City Metro (BCM) launched an operation at China Mall in East London this week to seize illegal pesticides and insecticides sold illegally at the mall in Arcadia. The Department of Agriculture confirmed that the pesticides were illegal and goods worth just under R9 000 were confiscated.