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 The National Youth Development Agency is calling for 2,000 youth volunteers for the 2013 Orange Africa Cup of Nations which will be hosted on South African soil including in Nelson Mandela Bay. The Agency said on Friday that the recruitment

 A George tax consultant accused of being behind the so-called 419 letter scam will appear in court on Friday. The George Herald reports on its website that Kevin Clyde van der Walt will be sentenced in terms of a plea agreement and this

Forty-six African penguins have been released back into the wild after being rescued from Bird Island in Addo Elephant National Park. SA National Parks says the penguins are in excellent condition following several months of rehabilitation at two

Protest action in several areas Nelson Mandela Bay had led to the municipality's Human Settlement's Directorate failing to meet its target for the provision of water and sanitation in the third quarter of the last financial year. According to a

The Legal Resource Centre in Grahamstown says the Eastern Cape Education Department has done an about turn on the issue of Learner Teacher Support Material for schools. In a circular to schools following a meeting on Tuesday, the Eastern Cape

Seven men arrested for a foiled platinum heist in Deal Party, Port Elizabeth late last year, are back in court on Thursday. Five suspected robbers and a by-stander were killed in a dramatic shoot-out between an armed gang and police. The men

Correctional Services Minister, Sibusiso Ndebele, will officially launch his department's "reading for redemption campaign" at St Albans prison on the outskirts of Port Elizabeth on Monday. The launch, which forms part of heritage

 Beaufort West police have arrested a man for allegedly being in posession of 35 bags of perlemoen. Police spokesperson, captain Bernadine Steyn, says vigilant members of the Beaufort West Vehicle Identification and Safeguarding Section

 Members of the trade union Hospersa held a sit-in protest on Wednesday at the offices of the Eastern Cape Health MEC, Sicelo Gqobana. Hospersa says emergency services shop stewards and representatives of other unions, took part in the sit