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  The South African Leather Industry Association offered a 7.75% increase to striking employees at the Watson Shoe Factory in Great Brak River on Thursday morning. An extra holiday bonus was also offered. At least one hundred employees

The trade union Solidarity has been granted a court order in a bid to stop the retrenchment of more than a hundred people at Continental Tyre in Port Elizabeth. Judgement was handed down in the PE labour court on Thursday after the union served

More than 30 people had to be evacuated from their homes after a fire broke out at Anver pharmacy in Korsten, Port Elizabeth on Thursday morning. Police spokesperson, warrant officer Alwin Labans says all the tenants in the building have been

 Police are investigating a case of culpable homicide after a man was hit by a vehicle on the N2 near the Standford road turn off. Warrant officer Alwin Labans says 54-year old Lindisipho Mtwisana was hit on Wednesday evening when he tried

A man accused of murdering a Roman Catholic Church nun in the Eastern Cape has been arrested. Police spokesperson, colonel Mzukisi Fatyela says the 27-year-old man was arrested in Sibangweni locality near Mthatha on Thursday. Eighty-two-year

Port Elizabeth police are searching for 3 suspects after a shooting outside a house shop in 3rd Avenue, Hillside. Warrant officer Alwin Labans says a 32-year old man was confronted by three men who tried to hi-jack his white VW polo on Wednesday

  The death toll from the devastating veld fires that ravaged large parts of the Eastern Cape and southern Kwazulu Natal this week, has been put at ten. That's according to Eastern Cape Rural Development MEC, Mlibo Qoboshiyane, who has

Buffalo City Metro has established a Youth Council aimed at enhancing youth participation in economic development for job creation. BCM special programmes manager, Shaun Petzer, says the establishment of the 10 member council followed approval

East London police have arrested 15 people for public violence after protests flared up again in Ndevana and Ilitha administration areas. Police spokesperson, Captain Stephen Marais says the protest action started on Tuesday night where police