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Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality has welcomed a proposal to amend its Credit Control Policy to curb non-technical electricity losses through illegal connections and meter tampering.

Volkswagen has opened a new vehicle assembly facility in Accra in Ghana, reaffirming the German company's commitment to the development of the automotive industry in that country.

Police in Gqeberha are searching for a biokineticist who was kidnapped outside of her workplace in Pickering Street on Thursday morning. Algoa FM News has been reliably informed that the HAWKS have now taken over this investigation.

The George Municipality will install new smart ultrasonic water meters throughout the city over the next three to four years. The first 2000 meters are expected to be installed by April and the initial areas include Blanco, Heather Park, Dormehlsdrift and George South.

The Eastern Cape Liquor Board (ECLB) says the recent report of pupils drinking alcohol during a sporting event this past weekend was an immense shock. On Saturday the 11th Hoërskool Grens had a Sporting festival attended by several schools where alcohol was allegedly freely and openly consumed.

The Eastern Cape Provincial Executive has provided a R50 million lifeline to students who have not received their graduation certificates because of outstanding student debt.

The South African Human Rights Commission has launched its social media charter- a move that will hopefully counteract the unsociable and unconstitutional conduct on social media.

The Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality has officially launched the St Georges Park Wellfield project which is set to yield 3.6 million litres of treated groundwater per day to surrounding areas.

Forget Somerset East – the little town in the Eastern Cape has been renamed and shall henceforth be called KwaNojoli. Residents woke up to the news yesterday after the Department of Sports and Culture gazetted the new name changes, not only for Somerset East, but for Fort Beaufort and the name of Brooksnek village in the Eastern Cape.