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Eastern Cape police are searching for the gunmen who killed three people and wounded three others in a shooting at a tavern in a rural area near Bityi, in the Eastern Cape.

The Road Freight Association is pleading with striking workers at Transnet not to resort to violence or destroy property and much-needed infrastructure.

Police at Ntabathemba in the Chris Hani District of the Eastern Cape are on the hunt for an escaped suspect who attacked a police officer and fled from a police vehicle while in transit to the police station.

The health department says the investigation into Zenizole’s matter is still underway. But it views the clinic closures as an unprotected strike action by staff.

President Cyril Ramaphosa has officially opened the doors to the newly constructed Little Flower Early Childhood Development Centre at Nkantolo in the Eastern Cape.

The trial of the Enyobeni tavern owner and her husband will get underway in the East London Magistrate's Court in November.

A 37-year-old man from East London is in police custody following his arrest for allegedly slitting the throat of a toddler. Police Spokesperson Colonel Priscilla Naidu says it is alleged that the suspect, who is the boyfriend of the child's mother, fetched him near his home on Tuesday where he was playing with other children.

The DA says it will be approaching the Green Scorpions to urgently intervene in what it says is a looming health crisis in the Makana Municipality.

Two people were killed in two separate accidents in the Eastern Cape on Tuesday night. A spokesperson for Provincial Traffic Unathi Binqose says the accidents were on the N6 and R72 respectively.