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This brings the death toll for Saturday to 10 following a gruesome accident on the M17 in Gqeberha and a head-on collision on the N2 near Butterworth claiming the lives of six and two people respectively.

Six people have been killed and six injured following a gruesome accident on the M17 highway in Gqeberha. Police spokesperson Captain Andre Beetge says the accident happened at 1.30 am on the stretch of road between Motherwell and Kwazakhele.

A Lesotho national who killed an elderly resident at the Pinnacle Point Golf Estate has been sentenced to 37 years in prison. Clement Kholoane, 40, entered a plea agreement with the state and was sentenced in the George Regional Court on Thursday.

Tributes are pouring in for a local rugby coach in Mossel Bay who died on Thursday in a head-on collision on the N2. Lesley London, 39, was on his way to deliver bread to a school when he was involved in a head-on collision near the Vleesbaai turnoff.

BCM mayor, Princess Faku, officially opened the long-awaited Court Crescent precinct on the city's beachfront, named in honour of slain local champion boxer, Leighandre "Baby Lee" Jegels.

The Gqeberha magistrate's court heard dramatic evidence related to the murder of policeman Sergeant Khayalethu Mbonomnyama during the bail judgment of three alleged hitmen.

Police in the Sarah Baartman district have expressed their concern over the recent increase in online fraud cases in Port Alfred. Spokesperson Captain Marius McCarthy says in the last six weeks they have had 14 cases opened where the same modus operandi was at play.

The Hawks in the Eastern Cape are investigating a break-in at the Hogsback police station on Wednesday. Spokesperson Captain Yolisa Mgolodela says at the moment they can confirm that a state cellphone, bulletproof vest, a gun and a marked vehicle were stolen.

Two men in their thirties were killed following a head-on collision on the N2 near Mossel Bay on Thursday. The accident happened shortly after 8 am on the N2 between Vleesbaai and the Kleinberg turn-offs near Mossel Bay, in the direction of Cape Town.