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Gqeberha police have opened an inquest docket following the deaths of a mother and her daughter who perished in a shack fire in Motherwell. The tragic inicident took place in Nkonjane Street just after midnight on Sunday.

Gqeberha police have made a breakthrough in the Chatty triple murder case. Police spokesperson Colonel Priscilla Naidu said three suspects were arrested on Friday following the murders of Christopher Mentoor (28), Darren Aphew (29) and Winston Clarke (30) in the early hours of Tuesday morning in Booysen Park.

Nelson Mandela Bay Mayor Gary van Niekerk on Friday pointed the finger at his predecessor for the role that he played in National Treasury withholding more than R591 million in grant funding from the metro.

Explicit details of how a woman who was allegedly sexually assaulted by Nigerian Pastor Timothy Omotoso emerged on Friday as the trial continued in the Gqeberha High Court.

A couple who was walking along Marine Drive in Summerstrand in Gqeberha on Thursday were robbed of their phones by three suspects of whom one had a knife. Police spokesperson Captain Sandra Janse van Rensburg says at about 16.30, the K9 unit busy with a routine patrol in the same road, heard the victims screaming and swiftly responded.

The state is opposing the bail application of an Eastern Cape policeman arrested in connection with the murder investigations underway at the University Fort Hare.

A woman who was allegedly sexually assaulted by Nigerian Pastor Timothy Omotoso took to the witness stand on Thursday as the trial continue in the Gqeberha High Court.

The Department of Water and Sanitation said the recent rains in parts of the Eastern Cape last week have helped improve the state of water levels, especially the Algoa Water Supply System.

Finance Minister, Enoch Godongwana, says he was deeply concerned about the integrity of the decision by Nelson Mandela Bay Metro to endorse the appointment of Anele Qaba as the new CEO of the Mandela Bay Development Agency.