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As efforts to stay warm push electricity demand to strenuous levels for the fragile national grid.

Police in Port Alfred are investigating a case of culpable homicide following a tragic accident on Sunday night. Police spokesperson Colonel Priscilla Naidu says the accident happened on the R72 opposite a high school just before midnight.

Police are investigating a case of culpable homicide following a multi-vehicle accident on the N10 on Monday. A spokesperson for police Colonel Priscilla Naidu says the accident happened at about 7.30 am roughly 40 km from Nxuba.

A 28-year-old Eastern Cape man is due to appear in court in Keiskammahoek on Monday in connection murder of an elderly couple, aged 73 and 83.

Eastern Cape police said “excellent collaboration” between themselves and security officers from a private game reserve resulted in the swift arrest of two suspects and the seizure of poaching equipment.

Police in Gqeberha are investigating two house robberies that took place on separate small holdings along the outskirts of the city this weekend. Spokesperson Captain Sandra Janse van Rensburg says it is unclear at this stage if the robberies were committed by the same group of men.

A Gqeberha police officer appeared in the city's Magistrates Court on Friday on a slew of charges including kidnapping, torture, and assault.

Funeral preparations are underway for 15 passengers in the Eastern Cape who lost their lives in a fatal crash between a minibus taxi and a heavy-duty truck on Sunday night. Thembelani Ndyalivane said his family lost six people in the accident on the N9 near Middelburg when the truck’s trailer overturned and fell onto the taxi.

Two more suspects have been arrested in connection with the brutal murder of slain Zwide Doctor, Bantu Noqekwa.