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The Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality is reaching out to the community, to actively participate in the affairs of government with a Public Participation campaign, that will be led by the Executive Mayor Benson Fihla and the Mayoral Committee on Monday

Public hearings on the desirability of having bingo halls in the Eastern Cape will be held in the major centres throughout the province from Monday (March 25). Eastern Cape Gambling and Betting Board CEO Mabutho Zwane said greater employment was

 Police in Port Alfred have arrested a young burglary suspect, only hours after a break-in, with the help of a tracking device in a laptop computer. Spokesperson, Lieutenant Luvuyo Mjekula, says a couple in a Port Alfred hotel woke up at 3am

 Six people have been killed in an accident on the N2 near Butterworth, involving a herd of cows and three vehicles. Police spokesperson, Captain Jackson Manatha, says a Volkswagen microbus, Nissan bakkie and Ford Figo collided after one of

 The Nelson Mandela Bay Science and Technology Centre in Uitenhage, will be officially opened on Saturday. The Minister of Science and Technology, Derek Hanekom, will deliver an opening address. The centre is the first fully fledged

 Eastern Cape Police have seized dagga with an estimated street value of R3.7m from two men on the R63 near Bisho. Police spokesperson Siphokazi Mawisa said the two, aged 56 and 26, were arrested on the R63 near Bisho Stadium on Thursday

Property, water, sanitation and refuse rates in Nelson Mandela Bay will all increase by 13%, according to the Draft Budget for 2013/14. The electricity tariff will increase by an average of 8%. The Draft Budget was to have been tabled at

Additional charges have been brought against Uitenhage car dealer, Simon van Vuuren. He appeared in court on Wednesday where it emerged that the number of motor vehicle theft cases against him has now grown to 53. Initially, 65-year-old Van

 Rhodes University says recent water outages in the Makana municipal area are threatening to disrupt life on campus. Parts of the city, including parts of the Rhodes University campus, have been hit by outages since Monday after a water pipe