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Eastern Cape police have warned of the dangers of hitch-hiking after a 23-year-old woman was allegedly raped by truck driver who gave her a lift from Kariega.

There was hardly a dry eye in Nelson Mandela Bay’s Raymond Mhlaba area in Kwazakhele when residents received government-subsidised houses from the Eastern Cape Provincial Human Settlements MEC Siphokazi Mani-Lusithi on Tuesday.

Police in Gqeberha have issued identikits for two men wanted by the Family Violence, Child Protection, and Sexual Offences Unit on allegations of rape.

One person was killed while 14 others sustained injuries in a three-vehicle collision on the R-56 in the Eastern Cape on Tuesday morning.

Another police sergeant has been gunned down in Motherwell in Gqeberha Hawks spokesperson, Captain Yolisa Mgolodela, says the officer attached to the Swartkops Rapid Response Unit was shot outside Aya's tavern at Mgwalana Street on Sunday.

Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality Security Services arrested two men thought to be part of a syndicate stealing palisade fencing from Municipal property across the Metro.

A construction worker who works at the Msikaba Bridge construction site in Lusikisiki has died. The South African National Roads Agency (SANRAL) says the man, who worked for one of the sub-contractors died on site.

A 38-year-old man who is allegedly involved in the murder of a farmer in the Free State was arrested in Gqeberha on Friday. Police spokesperson Colonel Priscilla Naidu says the body of 62-year-old Lance Da Silva was found with a gunshot wound to the left side of his head.

Pregnant women, awaiting admission for critical caesarean section surgeries were once again forced to sleep on the floor and chairs at Gqeberha’s Dora Nginza, this week.