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Buffalo City Metro says a proposal for a 24-hour period of load shedding in a week to allow businesses to operate uninterrupted for four days a week, will be “strongly considered.”

The bail hearing of Greenbushes murder accused Brendin Rossouw has been postponed to the 6th of February in the Gqeberha Magistrate's court

Video footage reportedly showing EFF leader Julius Malema firing what is believed to be an assault rifle will be admissible in court. Malema is currently in the East London Magistrates Court for the continuation of his trial relating to the 2018 incident in Mdantsane when the EFF celebrated its fifth celebration.

Police in Gqeberha are investigating a triple murder following a shooting incident in Soweto-on Sea on Sunday. Just hours after eight people were gunned down at a birthday party in Kwazekhele, police were also called out to a murder scene at a local tavern.

A high school in Gqeberha has been plunged into mourning following the death of one of its pupils who was shot and killed. Fifteen-year-old Inako Magidiwana, a Grade 9 student at Alexander Road High was in Kwazakhele while walking home from a nearby shop.

The firearms case against EFF leader Julius Malema and his co-accused, Adriaan Snyman has been postponed to Tuesday in the East London Magistrate's court. This is pending Magistrate Twanett Olivier's decision on the admissibility of the video footage evidence.

Two vehicles were set alight during a service delivery protest in Kwadwesi on Monday. Police spokesperson Captain Andre Beetge says angry residents took to the streets at about 4 am on Monday burning rubble on the R75.

A security officer in Despatch has been killed and his firearm stolen. Topflight Security Services said in a post on its Facebook page that the armed response officer was in his vehicle at a filling station in Main Street on Sunday night when he came under fire.

A suspect is currently in police custody in Mossel Bay after a teenager was raped and strangled to death on a farm near Great Brak River on Saturday. The 16-year-old victim's body was discovered by her 20-year-old sister behind a water tank on the farm.