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The 24-year-old Hilton Wicks who was kidnapped in Nqanqarhu (formerly Maclear) on Friday has been safely dropped off at Kei Bridge in the early hours of the day. News of Wicks' disappearance came just an hour after the Gqeberha Biokineticist, Riana Pretorius was released from her captors on Friday.

Police spokesperson Colonel Priscilla Naidu says the 43-year-old officer was on her way to work on Sunday morning when her ex-boyfriend ambushed her on the stairs outside her living quarters.

Police in Jeffreys Bay have opened an inquest docket following a suicide at the main beach.

Police have recovered the bodies of two people who had been swept away in recent floods that caused havoc in the OR Tambo District Municipality. They were identified as 53-year-old Fumanekile Mantshubaqa and 24-year-old Asenathi Mkawusi.

Riana Pretorius was dramatically kidnapped in front of her workplace on Pickering Street in Newton Park last Thursday. The news of her abduction spread like wildfire on all social media platforms and quick action from the police led to the arrest of one suspect.

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.