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 Mossel Bay police have welcomed the ruling by the magistrate's court to deny bail to suspects in two separate rape cases. Correspondent Louise Karsten reports that in the one case bail was denied to a 62-year-old man for the alleged rape of

A  group of Plettenberg Bay residents plan to gather at the local magistrate's court on Thursday to honour eight-year-old Sesona Bayibile who was murdered on the outskirts of the town earlier this month. This, as the 18-year-old murder

 A boy from East London has drowned and another was rescued at Eastern Beach. Police spokesperson, Captain Stephen Marais, says the two got into trouble while swimming on Wednesday. He says members of the public managed to rescue a 13

 The Eastern Cape Development Corporation has announced the suspension of its secretary, advocate Dalubuhle Mbelani. In a statement issued on Wednesday, the development financier, said that Mbelani has been placed on paid precautionary

 Mossel Bay police are investigating a murder and armed robbery following the death of a 54-year-old man on a farm early on Wednesday. Police spokesperson, Captain Malcolm Pojie says Freddie Tolman of the farm Outeniquabos near Hartenbos

  An angler has been shot dead in Swartkops, Port Elizabeth. Police spokesperson, Constable Mncedi Mbombo, says the victim was in his 30s. His name has not yet been released. Mbombo says police have arrested a suspect and seized his

 The Eastern Cape is to get a deputy judge president, the presidency announced on Wednesday. Spokesperson Mac Maharaj says President Jacob Zuma has determined that the Eastern Cape Division of the High Court shall have a deputy judge

 Gunmen opened fire on a police vehicle and the car of an off-duty policeman in the Helenvale area in the early hours of Wednesday morning. The members were on patrol when shots were fired at the police van, hitting the vehicle twice

 A 34-year-old Port Elizabeth man has died in hospital after being shot three times in the chest. Police spokesperson, Warrant Officer Alwin Labans, says the incident happened at a unit in Impala Flats in Sidwell, on Wednesday morning. He