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Police have issued a warning after a Swiss couple was conned out of a large, but undisclosed amount of cash by several men.

Nersa’s granting of an 18.65% electricity tariff increase to Eskom will be detrimental to the Nelson Mandela Bay local economy.

An Eastern Cape teacher who was arrested for the murder of a Traffic Officer has been denied bail in the Mthatha Magistrate’s Court.

The Democratic Alliance has laid criminal charges against the Acting Municipal Manager of the Joe Gqabi District Municipality in the Eastern Cape. This is for allegedly failing to address a massive sewage spill in Burgersdorp in the Walter Sisulu Local Municipality.

Higher Education Minister, Dr Blade Nzimande, said a National Task Force would be established following the latest assassination attempt on the Vice Chancellor of Fort Hare University, Professor Sakhela Buhlungu.

Eastern Cape Premier Oscar Mabuyane has implored all spheres of government to assist a 52- year-old man who has just graduated from initiation school to find suitable employment. The 52-year-old man is part 35 initiates who have come back from initiation school after an intervention from two Bay NGOs and the Nelson Mandela Bay municipality.

A 19-year-old Kariega man is behind bars after a stolen police firearm was found in a raid on his Kwanobhule home on Tuesday. Police spokesperson, Colonel Priscilla Naidu, says the arrest was made by members of the District Crime Combatting Unit who were acting on a tip-off.

Eastern Cape police are hunting for the gang who attacked and blew up a cash-in-transit vehicle on the R411 between Mqanduli and Viedgiesville on Monday. Provincial police spokesperson, Brigadier Tembinkosi Kinana, said the G4 security vehicle was travelling from Elliotdale after a collection when it came under fire from gunmen in two double-cab bakkies.

A family of six has burned to death in their home in an informal settlement near Oudtshoorn.