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Police search and rescue teams have found the body of a pizza delivery man who was swept away along with his motorcycle in the Third Avenue Dip in Gqeberha.

Police in Gqeberha have opened an inquest docket after a four-year-old girl drowned in a fast-flowing river.

Most of the survivors are not South African, and many do not have valid papers allowing them to work in the country, making access to compensation difficult. None of the families we spoke to has received any compensation from the Department of Labour.

Search and Rescue teams attached to the K9 unit in Gqeberha are currently at the notorious 3rd Avenue Dip in Newton Park, where a motorcyclist reportedly got swept away.

Bitou Municipality says it's proud to have retained Blue Flag status for six beaches in the Municipal area.

An 18-year-old Eastern Cape man has been sentenced to an effective 25 years in jail for the rape and murder of a two-year-old child on a farm near Kwanojoli, formerly Somerset East.

Two men who were charged with four others for the brutal murders of 18 people in Lusikisiki in the Eastern Cape last month, abandoned their bail when they appeared in court on Tuesday.

Algoa Park police in Gqeberha are investigating two more cases of murder that took place a day apart in Missionvale. Police spokesperson Lt Col Siphokazi Mawisa says in the first incident - that took place on Sunday - a 29-year-old man was gunned down in Boesak Grounds.

Gqeberha rape survivor, Alison Botha on Tuesday said though she is nervous for the road ahead, she is determined to make a full recovery.