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Two people have been killed and more than 30 injured after a bus driver lost control on the R56 between Matatielle and Kokstad. A spokesperson for Provincial Traffic Unathi Binqhose says a three-month-old baby and an adult female died on the scene.

A man who allegedly broke into a flat in South End in Gqeberha was fatally wounded after vandalising the unit and setting it on fire.

An Eastern Cape Prosecutor has been charged with contravention of section 54 of the Sexual Offences Act for allegedly failing to report that a minor had been raped and sexually assaulted.NPA spokesperson Luxolo Tyali says it is alleged that Vicky Rossouw knew that the child had been sexually assaulted and raped but did not immediately report the matter to the police.

A pastor from Oudtshoorn has been sentenced to 54 years in prison for a string of charges including the rape of two teenage girls. The spokesperson for the National Prosecuting Authority Eric Ntabazalila says the pastor cannot be named as the victims are family members.

Innocent bystander wounded as three gun wielding men shoot man in broad day light in Qonce.

The mental health of a Gqeberha man, who was arrested for the murder of his mother in her Park Drive flat, is in question. Thirty-three-year-old, Maurice Butlion, made a brief appearance in a video from St Albans Prison at the city's Magistrates Court on Monday.

Parliament’s Portfolio Committee on Health says Gqeberha’s Livingstone Hospital is in a bad state and does not deserve to be called a hospital.

Police are hunting for the assailants who killed six people at a suspected drug post in New Brighton in Gqeberha early on Saturday morning.

Committee Chairperson Dr Kenneth Jacobs says after seeing the state of the Dora Nginza hospital he decided to ask the National Department of Health to launch a full-scale investigation to determine if the hospital should even be open at all due to health and safety concerns.