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Police divers are searching for a 22-year-old Gqeberha man who went missing after he was swept out to sea at Maitland Beach on Friday.

An East London father burying his wife on Saturday says drugs are what caused his 21-year-old son to murder his mother. Masonwabe Biyana was arrested in May, after the body of his 45-year-old mother, Thandeka Biyana, was found dumped, in Khayelitsha, East London.

The Eastern Cape Health Department has launched an ambitious initiative to tackle the backlog in orthopaedic surgeries in the province. Spokesperson Mkhululi Ndamase said the orthopaedic ‘marathon’ will see a team of about 15 nurses, four orthopaedic surgeons, three anaesthetists and two radiographers per day being in theatre on the weekend of the third and fourth of June.

Two men in a luxury BMW are driving around with a full tank of diesel today after outsmarting an unsuspecting petrol pump attendant at the Windfarm along the N2, west of Gqeberha. This is not the first time that thieves have presented themselves as customers.

Gqeberha police have arrested a suspect for the brutal attack on an Atlas security officer in Central, while the hunt for his accomplices continues.

Police are searching for two men who broke into a house in Hex River Road in Kariega, assaulted a man, and stole jewellery worth around R150 000.

The President of the Nelson Mandela Bay Business Chamber, Loyiso Dotwana, says the country is at a “tipping point”, with everything coming to a head at the same time at both national and local level.

Four men were killed when the car they were in collided with a truck in on the N2 about 12 kilometres from Kei Bridge.

The Democratic Alliance in the Eastern Cape has called on the provincial government to develop a comprehensive safety plan to "rescue the province from its downward spiral of violent crime."