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Eastern Cape police are investigating a double murder in Jeffreys Bay. Police spokesperson Colonel Priscilla Naidu says the two victims were sitting in a store room attached to a primary dwelling in Oceanview on Saturday evening when several shots were fired through a window from the outside.

The Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality says it is aware of large-scale electricity outages across the metro since the weekend caused by the Chatty substation that has tripped.

Two pedestrians were killed in a hit-and-run incident in Mdantsane in East London in the early hours of Saturday morning.

The GOOD Party says it notes the resignation of three of its former George Municipality ward councilors who have joined the Democratic Alliance.

One of the two men convicted of the murder of a female SANDF member in 2020, was jailed for an effective 18 years in the High Court in Gqeberha this week.

A Gqeberha teenager who was last seen in September last year is still missing. Spokesperson Colonel Priscilla Naidu says 15-year-old Nikita Williams, known as Dolly, left her home in Vooisen Road in Helenvale on the 22nd of September and never came home.

Gqeberha police are investigating a case of culpable homicide after a cyclist was killed near Wells Estate on Thursday.

Eastern Cape police are investigating the murder of three men whose bodies were found in the main road of Mzamo Township at Indwe on Wednesday.

Eight people who were arrested following a truck hijacking and shootout with police on Wednesday are due to appear in court in Gqeberha soon.