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Nelson Mandela Bay Business Chamber CEO Kevin Hustler says he was encouraged by the general mood coming out of an early-morning meeting with Premier Noxolo Kiviet in East London today. Hustler says key stakeholders in the province were seated in

Plettenberg Bay police have arrested a third suspect in connection with an arson attack on a municipal building. Police spokesperson, captain Bernadine Steyn, says the third suspect was arrested this morning. Two other suspects were arrested

The Weather Office in Port Elizabeth has advised that the discomfort index has risen to  "extremely uncomfortable" levels in large parts of the Eastern Cape. By ten o'clock the index reached the 100-level or more in places like

Two men are expected to appear in court in Plettenberg Bay today following an arson attack on a municipal office. The men, aged 22 and 27, were arrested on Saturday night shortly after they allegedly threw an incendiary device into a municipal

A 26 year old Zimbabwean man working at the Boardwalk construction site has drowned. Lifesaving Eastern Cape said the man drowned yesterday while swimming at Kings Beach. His body has not yet been recovered. Spokesperson, David Bamber, says

A 30 year old St Francis Bay man has drowned while trying to save his two young children who had got into difficutly in the access channel to the Krom River opposite The Cove. The NSRI's Craig Lambinon says NSRI rescue swimmers reached the

A Uitenhage man has been wounded in a shootout with the police. Warrant Officer Gerda Swart says a patrolling policeman saw the man acting suspiciously in the Kamesh area on Friday evening, and as the policeman got closer to him, the man started

An elderly man was rescued by the police's air wing from a mountain near Uitenhage on Saturday, after suffering a stroke on Friday evening. Capt Johan Rheeder says the 70-year old Despatch man decided to climb the mountain with another man on

Port Elizabeth police are investigating a case of culpable homocide, after a woman was killed in a head-on collision on the M4 highway near the Albany Road offramp in the early hours of Sunday morning. Police Captain, Johan Rheeder says a