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 The Auditor General released the 2012/2013 audit report on Wednesday. Here is the report as it relates to the Eastern Cape Eastern Cape has two metropolitan municipalities, six district municipalities, 37 local municipalities and 10

  The Cape St Francis community is grieving the passing of the Eastern Cape manager of Sanccob, Wilna Wilkinson. The 36-year old was killed in a head on collision on the N2 near Bloukrans early on Tuesday morning. Police spokesperson

 Tributes are pouring in on social media for popular Grey High School teacher Vaughan Jones who died on Tuesday of a suspected heart attack while surfing at Rincon near the beacon. Sixty Three year-old Jones was an English teacher and house

 The Port Elizabeth Labour Court has declared the three month strike by Numsa members at the Port of Ngqura container terminal, as illegal. The order applies to permanent Transnet employees who are to return to work on Wednesday for the

The official unemployment rate in the Eastern Cape increased by 1% between the first and second quarters and by 0.2% year-on-year (y/y), according to figures released this morning by Statis-tics South Africa. The figures show that the official

Eastern Cape police commissioner, Lieutenant-General Celiwe Binta, has welcomed the arrest of 14 people for the brutal murder of three members of the same family in a village near Mbizana on Saturday. Provincial police spokesperson, Colonel

Bayworld in Port Elizabeth will be releasing two rehabilitated seals back into the ocean on Wednesday. Bayworld's Greg Hofmeyer says one of the animals, a sub-Antarctic fur seal named Bokkie, will be fitted with a satellite tracking device

 The Southern African Music Rights Organisation has opened its third contact centre in the country in Nelson Mandela Bay. The launch of the office on Tuesday was the result of a collaboration between Samro and the Nelson Mandela Bay

A  car salesman from Humansdorp has been sentenced to 12 years in prison for fraud. Anton Frederick Jonker, who used to work at CBF Motors, earlier pleaded guilty to charges of fraud involving more than R1.3-million, and was duly found