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The Nelson Mandela Bay Council has approved its draft operating and capital budgets. The Council also adopted the draft Integrated Development Plan for the 2013/2014 financial year, including the draft Property Rates Policy at a meeting on

Eastern Cape police have released the following identikit of the man suspected to be behind the hijacking attempt on provincial police commissioner, lieutenant-general Celiwe Binta. Binta was traveling with her bodyguard and a female passenger

The AVBOB Foundation handed over a mobile container library to 1193 Booysen Park learners at Sapphire Road Primary School in Port Elizabeth on Thursday. The library project is being done in partnership with Department of Basic Education and

Another company has given notice of its intention to explore for oil and gas off the coast of Port Elizabeth. Metrominute reports that OK Energy Limited has submitted an application to the Petroleum Agency of South Africa in terms of the Mineral

Port Elizabeth adventure ultra distance swimmer, Kyle Main, has a date with destiny next month, when he tackles the Strait of Gibraltar. He flies out next week and says he'll have a six to eight day window in which to complete the 25 km swim

Three lions have been released into the Mountain Zebra National Park outside Cradock. SA National Park says the two males and one female became the first free-roaming lions in the area after an absence from the area of over 130 years. Park

John Harvey More than 300 ANC members in Mossel Bay have allegedly defected to the DA in the past week, citing a lack of service delivery on the part of the ruling party for their departure. On Sunday alone, 150 ANC members from Ward 2 joined

With a constantly changing environment in the South African farming sector, many commercial farm investors are looking to diversify into different regions and away from core farming activities. That's according to Wayne Rubidge, the manager of

Public Protector, advocate Thuli Madonsela, has found that the appointment of the CEO of the Eastern Cape Gamblind and Betting Board, constituted improper conduct and an act of maladministration. Madonsela released the findings today of a probe