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Police in Gqeberha have seized abalone with an estimated street value of over R1 million.

A Gqeberha man out on bail for a double murder has been arrested again for being in the possession of an illegal firearm and ammunition.

The Democratic Alliance has announced a two-pronged strategy to end the use of pit latrines in thousands of schools across the country.

Knysna police appealed to the public for assistance in the search for 24-year-old, Yibanathi Tizana, who has been reported missing.

Eastern Cape police commissioner, Lieutenant-General Nomthelele Mene, says they have not yet received any reports of serious incidents linked to the National Shutdown called by the EFF. General Mene said however that two people were arrested, one in Nelson Mandela Bay for the possession of a firearm and another in East London for damaging infrastructure.

The ANC in the Eastern Cape says it has received confirmation of the resignation of Xola Pakati as Executive Mayor of Buffalo City with immediate effect.

The Nelson Mandela Bay Business Chamber says most manufacturers who had planned to have normal operations were able to do so at the required production levels during the EFF's national shutdown on Monday.

The mortal remains of a Gqeberha nurse, who left the country to assist post-independent Tanzania to revive nursing in that country, will be repatriated to South Africa this week.

Five people were killed and another seriously injured when two vehicles collided in East London on Sunday night.