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A teenager drowned at De Bakke in Mossel Bay, after being swept out to sea by rip-currents while swimming. The National Sea Rescue Institute says emergency services, including police divers, arrived at the scene on Saturday afternoon, and

The Press Ombudsman has dismissed a complaint about The Herald newspaper publishing contents of an email sent to its editor by Eastern Cape local government MEC Mlibo Qoboshiyane. Mvusiwekhaya Sicwethsa, an African National Congress member and

 Ten gang members were granted bail in the Port Elizabeth magistrates court on Friday on charges of dealing in drugs and the contravention of Section 9 of the Prevention of Organised Crime Act. Security was tight for their appearance. Six

 Eastern Cape premier Noxolo Kiviet says the Eastern Cape is a better place now than it was 20 years ago. She delivered her last State of the Province address in Bhisho on Friday, for the term of the current government ahead of the May

 The husband of a 38-year-old George woman who was brutally attacked and stabbed 23 times on Wednesday has been arrested in connection with the incident and will appear in the local magistrate's court again on Monday. Police spokesman

 The Eastern Cape High Court in Mthatha has ordered the Minister of Basic Education and the national and provincial Departments of Basic Education, to promptly address the furniture crisis plaguing the province's public schools within 90 days

  Port Alfred police have named the fisherman who died on Wednesday when he was knocked overboard from the commercial fishing vessel Hawai near the Kowie River Mouth. Lieutenant Luvuyo Mjekula has confirmed the man's identity as 55-year

 The asset forfeiture unit in Port Elizabeth has seized the farm of a man suspected of dealing in perlemoen. Jacobus Marthinus van der Mescht's farm Doornkloof near Alexandria was seized on Thursday morning. The National Prosecuting

  Port Elizabeth police are searching for four men who robbed a truck delivering a consignment of cigarettes. Captain Sandra Janse van Rensburg says the incident happened at about 9 o'clock on Thursday in Gutch street in Gelvandale