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The Buffalo City Metro is working with intergovernmental stakeholders to address the illegal occupation of land, where people have started building shacks on graveyards.

Over 30 years since the dawn of democracy, families living in the rural village of Lugada under the Matatiele local municipality in the Eastern Cape are yet to get access to tap water.

Six suspects arrested for the mass murders of 18 people in the Eastern Cape last month, appeared in court in Lusikisiki on Thursday.

The Metro says due to budget limitations they can only attend to the Motherwell Cemetery for now as they only have R3 million available for the project.

Members of a SAPS team investigating the murders of five people in Gqeberha, fatally wounded a suspect wanted in connection with Tuesday night's multiple shooting.

EC Transport and Community Safety MEC, Xolile Nqatha, has urged the taxi industry to disband the executive structure of the SANTACO in the province and its relevant structures within seven days.

A Gqeberha woman who allegedly hurled acid into a teenager's face appeared briefly in the Gelvandale Magistrate's Court on Wednesday.

Three people have died in an accident involving a Toyota sedan with four occupants and a bakkie with two people inside.

On Tuesday, the municipality’s Electricity and Energy Directorate said, “In light of the recent flooding in and around the metro, we urge all customers experiencing house flooding to switch off the main switches on their distribution boards as a precautionary measure.