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Hundreds of Community members are gathered outside a tavern in Scenery park in East London where 20 pupils were found dead. Our East London correspondent Olwethu Xabanisa says it is almost impossible to reach the crime scene as cars are parked everywhere with parents crying at the scene.

A large section of Fort Beaufort Provincial Hospital has been shut down by the Eastern Cape Department of Labour which has deemed 13 wards to be a health hazard.

Eastern Cape Police have launched a manhunt for five trial awaiting prisoners who escaped from the back of a police van while in transit. Police spokesperson Colonel Priscilla Naidu says the suspects were being transported from Court to the Wellington Correctional facility in Mthatha on Tuesday when they managed to escape.

A Free State mother and her sister appeared in court in Bethlehem on Friday where they are facing three charges of murder. Thirty-one-year-old Maphephi Mokwena and her 21-year-old sister Maria allegedly poisoned their family with brown bean soup on Wednesday before they went to work and school.

Taylor and Roland were arrested in an operation dubbed Project Perfect Storm, conducted by SA National Parks (SANParks), and involved an undercover agent.

Nine of 24 communal water collection points in the Nelson Mandela Bay Metro will be activated on Saturday. This was announced by Metro's multi-party political oversight Committee on Thursday.

Gqeberha police are investigating the murder of a man who was killed in a suspected mob justice attack on Thursday.

Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality says two new Disaster Management recruits, who are barely a month in their new jobs, were robbed at gunpoint while delivering relief packages to victims of a shack fire in Qaqawuli Township in Kwazakhele.

A 28-year-old man has died following a collision between a truck and a sedan in Motherwell.