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The South African government on Friday moved to address speculation around the visit to the Eastern Cape by the President of the United Arab Emirates, Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed al Nahyan and a large entourage.

Eastern Cape police are searching for three men who brutally assaulted an elderly farmer in his farmhouse on Wednesday night, leaving him with burn wounds to his upper body.

Eastern Cape police said the Addo SAPS station commander had a narrow brush with death after coming face-to-face with an armed robbery suspect who pointed a gun at him and fired shots as the officer sped off.

Members of a multi-disciplinary team arrested 12 people for being in the illegal possession of abalone.

Eastern Cape police have arrested two suspects in connection with the murder of two women whose bodies were found on a gravel road in Joe Slovo in Gqeberha on Wednesday.

A 41-year-old man was arrested on Freedom Day for allegedly stabbing his 51-year-old wife to death at a guesthouse in George.

A manhunt has been launched for two prisoners who escaped from the Ngqeleni Correctional Centre in the Eastern Cape.

South Africa’s Kirsten Neuschäfer has made history by becoming the first woman to win a round-the-world race and the first SA sailor to win a round-the-world event.

The Eastern Cape Transport said four people were killed in a head-on collision on the N2 outside Dutywa on Thursday evening.