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Eastern Cape police have arrested four suspects for the murder of three family members in Thantseka Village in Bityi on 2 February.

Two suspects are in police custody following their arrest for a home invasion at a complex in Kamma Heights in Gqeberha earlier this week. Police spokesperson Captain Sandra Janse van Rensburg says in the early hours of Wednesday morning the complainant woke up after hearing a noise inside his house.

Democratic Alliance MP, Andrew Whitfield, was elected as the Eastern Cape provincial leader at the party’s elective conference in Graaff Reinet on Saturday.

Eastern Cape police are investigating the kidnapping of a foreign national who was abducted in Qonce (King Williams Town) by three gunmen.

Premier Oscar Mabuyane says he and his executives and director general have undergone lifestyle audits and no adverse findings were found by the State Security Agency.

A 46-year-old man appeared in the Commercial Crimes Court in Gqebhera on Friday for allegedly stealing more than R14 million rand from his employer, the Strathmore Farm Trust.

A 51-year-old alleged child pornographer from Gqeberha has been sentenced to nine months in prison for flouting his bail conditions. The father, who cannot be named to protect the identity of his children was sentenced in the city on Friday.

A Southern Elephant Seal that came ashore in the Bonza Bay area in East London on Wednesday appears to be in good health. The East London Aquarium and Museum staff have assessed him and it is suspected that he may have come out to moult.

The Stock Theft Unit in Jeffreys Bay is seeking community assistance in tracing two puppies and some sheep that were stolen from a farm in Humansdorp last week. The spokesperson for police Colonel Priscilla Naidu says it is alleged that the farmer left his two Anatolian Shepherd puppies with his sheep in a kraal on the 15th of February.