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  Port Elizabeth police have welcomed the lengthy jail sentences imposed this week on two known gang members from the city's Northern Areas. Police spokesperson, Captain Sandra Janse Van Rensburg, says Virgil Williams, was jailed for an

 Nelson Mandela Bay and Buffalo City Metro Municipalities have been named as first and second runners-up in the Greenest Municipality competition run by the Department of Environmental Affairs. The City of Johannesburg was named the overall

Yolande Stander The Bitou Municipality clamped down on corruption this week and on Wednesday announced that more than 40 municipal workers allegedly bypassed electricity metres. This was established during an internal forensic investigation

 Two people have been killed in an accident on the N-2 near Gonubie in East London. Provincial traffic spokesperson, Tsepo Machaea, says the driver lost control of the vehicle which overturned. He says five other people were injured, two

 A 20-year-old St Francis Bay man sustained injuries during a house robbery early on Tuesday morning. Warrant Officer Swart, says three men broke into the house in Santerena and overpowered three people inside. She says the young man

 Uitenhage police have reported incidents of looting of foreign-owned spaza shops in Kwanobuhle. Police spokesperson, Warrant Officer Gerda Swart, says large groups of people entered three Somali-owned shops in the area late on Tuesday

 The ANC in the Eastern Cape says the courts are the correct platform upon which to determine and test rape allegations against a top official in the office of Premier Phumulo Masualle. ANC provincial spokesperson, Oscar Mabuyane, says the

  More than 200 Eastern Cape tavern owners have signed a pledge that commits to running responsible businesses. The signing ceremony took place in East London on Tuesday where the Industry Association for the Responsible Use of Alcohol and

 The wife of ANC chief whip Stone Sizani, Nontuthuzelo Sizani is back in the Port Elizabeth Commercial Crimes Court for the fraud and money laundering case against her. Sizani was arrested in December 2013 for allegedly defrauding the