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Gift of the Givers has stepped in to provide meals and support to residents of an Eastern Cape village where a mother recently killed her children and herself “because of poverty.”

Eastern Cape police are investigating the murder of a woman who was found naked and tied to an electricity pylon on Saturday in the Buffalo City Metro(BCM).

A suspect has been killed, one wounded and another injured when his getaway vehicle hit a horse on the road between Stutterheim and Qonce. A spokesperson for the Hakws Warrant Officer Ndiphiwe Mhlakuvana says the drama unfolded on Sunday when a multi-disciplinary Task Team pounced on the three suspects who were on their way to Stutterheim to allegedly extort money also known as a protection fee, from a foreign national's business.

The State said it would be opposing the bail application of a Gqeberha man accused of killing Bay physiotherapist, Marolien Schmidt.

The Eastern Cape Education Department has deployed a team of officials to investigate a rape incident at Attwell Madala Secondary School in Mthatha.

Two more suspects have appeared in court in connection with a mass shooting incident in Kwanobuhle in Kariega last month that left seven people dead.

Six people have been killed and two seriously injured following a collision on the N2 near Tsitsikamma.

Gqeberha police have made a plea to victims of abuse to reach out after the body of a woman was found in a house in Algoa Park on Saturday.

Eastern Cape police are appealing to members to be vigilant after an officer was killed and another wounded in separate incidents in Tsolo and Gqeberha.