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 A man suspected of child abuse is in hospital after being beaten by angry residents in Kwa Nobuhle, Uitenhage. Lieutenant colonel Priscilla Naidu says the man was allegedly beaten by residents over the weekend. She says the child had

 The NSRI at Knysna has rescued a 73-year-old man from Australia who fell while hiking on the Featherbed Trail, on the sea side of the Western Knysna Head. NSRI Knysna station commander Graeme Harding says a volunteer sea rescue crew was

Six people have been killed in two seperate accidents in the Southern Cape. Police captain Malcolm Pojie says four people were killed when their vehicle collided head-on with an ambulance. The accident happened in the early hours of Monday

Eastern Cape police have arrested two suspects in Addo for the alleged attempted murder of an Ethiopian man. Police spokesperson, Lt Col Priscilla Naidu says both suspects are linked to an armed robbery at a spaza shop on Friday. She says the

The Democratic Alliance in the Eastern Cape says the provincial education department could potentially cut more than 11-thousand teaching posts from the system for the 2013 school year. DA MPL, Edmund van Vuuren, says this is due to a shortfall

The Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University has advised that the results of Wednesday's SRC election, will possibly only be announced today. University spokesperson, Rosslyn Baatjies, says one of the parties standing for election, allegedly for

A campaign to reduce HIV and Aids through male circumcision practises has rolled out in the Eastern Cape. The campaign is being run by the Western Cape-based TB/HIV Care Association in conjunction with that province's Health Department

The SA Banking Risk Information Centre says its encouraged by the downward trend in crime statistics as they related to the banking and cash in transit sectors. Sabric CEO, Kalyani Pillay, says however that a lot more still needs to be done

Eastern Cape police management says it's satisfied that overall the police have succeeded in bringing contact crime down by 20%. Police Minister Nathi Mthethwa released the annual crime statistics which showed a decrease in the murder rate