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 A Sundays River municipality traffic official stationed at Kirkwood, has been sentenced to an effective four years imprisonment in the Port Elizabeth Commercial Crimes court. Joseph Fillies was found guilty of facilitating and issuing a

 The Eastern Cape High Court has overturned the effective seven year sentence imposed on a policeman from Alice who pleaded guilty to charges of corruption, fraud and defeating the ends of justice. Instead, Grahamstown high court judges

 Members of the SA Municipal Workers Union have run amok in Dutywa. Police spokesperson, captain Jackson Manatha, says about 300 disgruntled Samwu members threw rubble in the streets on Monday morning and set it alight. He says police are

 East London police say the Parkside Community Hall suffered extensive damage in a fire early on Monday morning. Police spokesperson, captain Stephen Marais, says the cause of the fire is not yet known and will be the subject of an

 Two people were killed, and three others sustained serious injuries, in a head-on collision between a bakkie and a car on the N2 between Port Elizabeth and Grahamstown on Sunday night. Netcare 911's Chris Botha says two people in the bakkie

 A 30-year-old suspected robber will appear in court on Monday on a murder charge for the stabbing of a Despatch man over the weekend. Thirty eight year old Rocco Swanepoel was stabbed to death at his home in Despatch, near Port Elizabeth in

  The Departments of Basic Education and the Eastern Cape Department of Education have been ordered by a court to supply furniture to 262 rural schools in the Libode district before 2014. This after four schools represented by the Legal

A Port Elizabeth businessman made his first apperance in court on Thursday in connection with the murder of his wife. Police captain, Stanley Jarvis says the case was postponed to the 4th of October, when 44-year-old Nathan Lewis, of Fernglen

 The Nelson Mandela Bay Metro Municipality says it will make a full assessment of the operational readiness of its traffic centres in the Metro on Thursday. This, after hundreds of irate people were turned away from the Korsten centre on