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The National Consumer Commission is urging motorists who are in possession of Mercedes-Benz ML, GL, and R-class models to stop driving these vehicles and contact Mercedes-Benz for further assistance.

East London police are investigating a case of business robbery after eight armed men robbed a Woolworths retail store in Hemingways Mall on Thursday night.

The Kouga Municipality will implement water shedding from Monday next week as the Churchill dam has now reached critical levels. Kouga Executive Mayor Horatio Hendricks says they have tried their best to avoid these measures but the situation is critical and can no longer be avoided.

A 43-year-old Gqeberha woman is in police custody after police discovered stolen copper cables on her property that operates as an illegal scrapyard.

The Metro says in a statement that the barge pump station at the Impofu dam must now be decommissioned. It says the Impofu dam levels are so low that the pumps are at risk of sucking up sediment as the pumps are close to the bottom of the dam basin.

Parliamentary House Chairperson Cedric Frolick says they are putting measures in place in an attempt to unblock what he describes as a glaring inefficiency when it comes to accessing millions of rands in flood relief from the government. National Treasury revealed today that it has not received any applications from government departments to access the R1 billion made available for flood relief to KwaZulu Natal and the Eastern Cape.

Gqeberha police have released an identikit of a man who allegedly raped a woman in Greenbushes. Police Spokesperson Colonel Priscilla Naidu says the suspect is a Zimbabwean National who approached the victim at her house in Kuyga late last month.

Garden Route police are looking for three suspects who assaulted a couple during a home invasion in Ballots Bay Heights on Monday night.

Police in Da Gamaskop are still hunting for clues following a burglary at a funeral home in Mossel Bay.