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Three people are reported missing in the OR Tambo District Municipality in the Eastern Cape, following heavy rain on Thursday. .

Two of Gqeberha’s most high-profile cases at the moment will be back before the local magistrates in April. Forty-year-old Xolisile Rawutini, who was arrested in connection with the kidnapping of biokineticist, Riana Pretorius, is expected back in court on 5 April.

An Indian national who has been living in South- Africa for two decades will be leaving the country following his kidnapping ordeal in East London. Forty-seven-year-old Arhaan Ganguly* spoke exclusively to Algoa FM News.

The K9 Unit in Humansdorp is mourning the loss of one of their beloved four-legged officers who died in the line of duty on Monday. Deacon, a Rottweiler, was with his handler Sergeant Pat Le Grange when they responded to a housebreaking in the St Francis Bay Area.

Newly elected Buffalo City Executive Mayor, Princess Faku, says there will be zero tolerance for incompetence, as she committed her new city administration to improving service delivery to residents.

Nelson Mandela Bay Metropolitan Police have arrested five men who were caught stealing window frames from the Chatty Library.

The Commission for Gender Equality says it is been admitted as a friend of the court in an appeal matter involving a paramedic from Makhanda whose rape conviction was overturned in 2021. The then Acting Judge Tembeka Ngcukaitobi and Judge Nyameko Gqamana found the original findings of the Makhanda Regional Court "erroneous" and unduly harsh, stating that it ignored the interests of society, and induced a sense of shock.

Several roads in parts of the Eastern Cape have been blockaded by protesting scholar transport operators who say they have not been paid by the provincial government. The Eastern Cape Transport Department says roads around Matatiele, Maluti and eMaxesibeni, formerly Mount Ayliff, have been closed, with trucks being used to enforce the blockade in some places.

Two of the three men who were gunned down in Arcadia in Gqeberha over the weekend have been identified Police spokesperson Colonel Priscilla Naidu says 35-year-old Lorenzo van Aardt and 25-year-old Kervin Witbooi have been identified by their loved ones.