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Nelson Mandela Bay Deputy Executive Mayor, Mkhuseli Jack, has opened a case of theft after 15 thousand litres of water and a water pump were stolen from his office property in Newton Park this week.

Arguments continued in the Magistrates Court in Gqeberha on Tuesday where murder accused Arnold Terblanche is fighting to get bail. Terblanche is accused of being the mastermind in the murder of his estranged wife Vicki who was found dead in a shallow grave at Greenbushes in October last year.

Despite 200 symptoms children presenting itching symptoms, Western Cape health department spokesperson Nadia Ferreira said no specific cause was given to mass the itching.

The EFF has approached their legal team to demand that Jacques Pauw's latest book, Our Poisoned Land be removed from the shelves.

A large quantity of diesel has spilled into the North End Lake alongside the Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium.

Two men have been shot dead and three others injured after a group of men broke down the door of a house in Malabar Extension 6. Spokesperson Colonel Priscilla Naidu says the incident happened after midnight in Calvert Street.

A truck carrying a cargo of catalytic converters was hijacked on Monday on the R-75 between Gqeberha and Kariega.

A pregnant woman who was found dead earlier this month in a ditch in Gqeberha has been identified. Police spokesperson Colonel Priscilla Naidu says she was identified by her boyfriend as Khuselwa Peter.

The Democratic Alliance in the Eastern Cape has lashed out at the Provincial Transport Department for not providing bulletproof vests to traffic officers for 13 years. In a statement issued on Monday, MPL, Marshall Von Buchenroder, said it was outrageous that the Department last issued bulletproof vests to traffic officers in the 2008/2009 financial year.