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Port Elizabeth police have arrested a 36-year old man for allegedly beating his girlfriend with a plank, and strangling her. Capt. Stanley Jarvis says the body of the 27-year old woman was found at the back of a business premises in Albany road

A man, convicted of raping a one-year-old girl in Ngqamakwe, near Butterworth in the Eastern Cape, has been sentenced to 22 years in prison by the Mthatha High Court. Police Captain Jackson Manatha says 22-year old Alberton Lungelo Nto-zini

Eastern Cape Premier Noxolo Kiviet has pleaded with the people of Indwe not to confuse their local leaders and the provincial government, by fighting over a new Coal Mining development. She was addressing residents before her official count down

East London boat watchers will be greeted by an unusual site in the harbour on Saturday. That's when the the High Speed Vessel Swift (HSV 2) arrives for a visit, one of three stops in South Africa. It will not be visiting Port Elizabeth

A total of 875 000 containers have been handled at the Port of Ngqura since it was commissioned in October 2009. Government’s Mid-Term Review re-leased this morning states that this was achieved at the two berths that were initially

Representatives of school governing bodies in Port Elizabeth's northern areas presented a memorandum of demands to the Eastern Cape Education Department on Friday. These include issues related to teacher shortages, financing of schools

Three gunmen have robbed the post office at the Fig Tree shopping complex in Port Elizabeth of an undiclosed amount of money. Police captain Stanley Jarvis says the three men were all wielding firearms when they entered the post office at 6.30

Big investments into the Coega Industrial Development Zone have provided the impetus for low cost housing company Nu Way to forge ahead with an ambitious housing project near Motherwell, Port Elizabeth. In April, the company announced plans to

The Nelson Mandela Bay Council will now meet every seven days as required by legislation, until it passes the 2012/13 Budget and Integrated Development Plan (IDP). On Wednesday, Council simply noted the budget and IDP that must still be refined