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The State said it would be opposing the bail application of a Gqeberha man accused of killing Bay physiotherapist, Marolien Schmidt.

The Eastern Cape Education Department has deployed a team of officials to investigate a rape incident at Attwell Madala Secondary School in Mthatha.

Two more suspects have appeared in court in connection with a mass shooting incident in Kwanobuhle in Kariega last month that left seven people dead.

Six people have been killed and two seriously injured following a collision on the N2 near Tsitsikamma.

Gqeberha police have made a plea to victims of abuse to reach out after the body of a woman was found in a house in Algoa Park on Saturday.

Eastern Cape police are appealing to members to be vigilant after an officer was killed and another wounded in separate incidents in Tsolo and Gqeberha.

Gqeberha police have opened an inquest docket following the deaths of a mother and her daughter who perished in a shack fire in Motherwell. The tragic inicident took place in Nkonjane Street just after midnight on Sunday.

Gqeberha police have made a breakthrough in the Chatty triple murder case. Police spokesperson Colonel Priscilla Naidu said three suspects were arrested on Friday following the murders of Christopher Mentoor (28), Darren Aphew (29) and Winston Clarke (30) in the early hours of Tuesday morning in Booysen Park.

Nelson Mandela Bay Mayor Gary van Niekerk on Friday pointed the finger at his predecessor for the role that he played in National Treasury withholding more than R591 million in grant funding from the metro.