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A group of protestors has demanded that government hold a referendum on the death penalty. The call was made outside the East London Magistrate's Court on Tuesday where a father appeared in court for the brutal murder of his six-year-old son, Sinombam Tywantsi.

Five people accused of murdering a Gqeberha woman during a house robbery have received the maximum sentence of life imprisonment.

A ninth person has been arrested in connection with a R24m fraud and corruption matter that has landed Nelson Mandela Bay Municipal manager, Noxolo Nqwazi, in hot water. Fifty-six-year-old Nompumezo Ngotsha appeared in the Gqeberha Specialised Court on Monday where she was granted bail of R5000

A man who is accused of threatening dozens of residents in Beacon Bay in East London made a second court appearance in the Magistrates Court on Monday. Forty-eight-year-old Clyde Zehmke allegedly wrote a disturbing letter to at least 30 residents, demanding R22 000 from each, claiming that their lives were in danger.

Thornhill police are appealing to the public for help in identifying a man whose body washed ashore on Sunday morning.

The 32-year-old mother Eastern Cape mother accused of killing her four children with a sledgehammer has died in hospital.

Police seized 633 units of abalone and arrested 11 suspected poachers during an operation in Jeffreys Bay.

As if crime in this country cannot get more outrageous the writer of the letter further give specific instruction on how his victims would have to place the money in a bin behind a transformer on the 16th of November, between 7 and 8 pm.

Bay woman who has lost two of her uncles, aunt and brother to different forms of cancer, is set to receive a free mastectomy.