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Correctional Services Commissioner, Makgothi Thobakgale, led a search operation at St Albans Correctional Centre in Gqeberha on Thursday night.

Buffalo City Municipality says a raid in informal settlements near Scenery Park this week led to the discovery of four illegally connected transformers that had been “destroyed.”

The Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality and law enforcement agencies embarked on a tavern blitz on Thursday as a build up to the festive season.

It has been exactly a year since Gqeberha businessman Arnold Terblanche's arrest sent shockwaves through the city and for the last 365 days he has been focused on getting bail. Terblanche is accused of being the mastermind of his estranged wife Vicki's murder in October last year.

The Family Violence Child Protection and Sexual Offences Unit in Gqeberha is seeking the public's assistance in tracing a teenager who has been missing for nearly two months. 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.

Eastern Cape police are hunting for three gunmen who forced their way into a homestead in the Bityi area on Wednesday night, and gunned down and killed seven people. Colonel Priscilla Naidu, says the Acting Provincial Police Commissioner, Major General Thandiswa Kupiso, has directed that a team be assigned to investigate the gruesome incident.

The man who made headlines in July last year when he looted food from a Woolworths store in Durban will have to hand over his Mercedes Benz C300 Coupe.

The wife of an Eastern Cape farmer appeared in court in Kariega on Tuesday in connection with her husband’s murder.

Detectives from Bethelsdorp in Gqeberha are seeking community assistance in hunting down a driver who killed a child and fled the scene. Spokesperson Colonel Priscilla Naidu says the accident happened on the main road in Qunu at about 6 pm.