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Great Brak River police are searching for five men who attacked a 35-year-old man in a house in Wolwedans on Saturday night.

The Police Ministry has urged sister-government departments to urgently help address drivers of criminality in areas grappling with high crime levels and gangsterism in Nelson Mandela Bay. The ministerial call comes as the SAPS officially launched  ‘Operation Shanela’ in Gqeberha in the Eastern Cape on Friday.

The Chris Hani District Municipality said the sabotaging of water infrastructure has severely affected the water supply to Cofinvaba and about 40 surrounding villages.

Police Minister Bheki Cele has officially launched the multi-disciplinary high-density ‘Operation Shanela’ in the Eastern Cape by addressing hundreds of police officials at the Gelvandale Stadium in Gqeberha on Friday. Earlier on Friday, Cele also visited Helenvale – one of the crime hotspots in the metro.

Two more people have been arrested in connection with the extortion of businesses in the Stutterheim area owned by foreign nationals.

Additional firefighting teams were dispatched to Ugie in the Eastern Cape where a wildfire has been raging since Saturday.

An Eastern Cape local government councillor was among three people shot dead in two incidents reported in the Qumbu area earlier this week.

The State has closed its case against the owners of Enyobeni tavern in East London, where 21 young children died under still mysterious circumstances.

Garden Route police have assembled a team to track down two men who escaped from the George Correctional Centre.