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A Gqeberha woman has been found guilty on multiple counts of tax fraud amounting to R2.4 million. The Hawks said 42-year-old Linda Ann Labuschagne was found guilty on Wednesday in the Specialised Commercial Crimes Court.

A four-year-old Belgian Shepherd has helped to put a dent into the activities of a suspected poaching syndicate.

A Gqeberha businessman has been fined R17 000 after pleading guilty to contravening the Counterfeit Goods and Trademark Acts. The Hawks said that the 41-year-old Himesh Parbhoo was convicted and fined on Tuesday by a Gqeberha Court.

Two people appeared in the East London Magistrate's Court on Wednesday for allegedly assaulting a woman in a parking lot earlier this month. Twenty-five-year-old Keegan Human and 24-year-old Michaela Foreman allegedly had a fight with an unknown woman outside a drinking spot in Abbotsford.

The Department of Health in the Eastern Cape says every single dog bite should be attended to due to the current outbreak of rabies. A spokesperson for Health Sizwe Kupelo says this follows the death of a teenager who was admitted to the Uitenhage Provincial Hospital on Easter Friday.

Staff members at the Cango Wildlife Ranch near Oudtshoorn were in a spin after a young and very agile Red-rumped Agouti escaped its new enclosure on the riverside over the Easter weekend.

The Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality says there is an indication that the homeless might have started the fire that damaged a plastic walkway on Marine Drive. Firefighters were called out to the scene in the early hours of Saturday morning after the fire broke out.

Police said excellent teamwork led to the arrest of a 30-year-old suspect who was found in possession of a suspected stolen vehicle. 

Police in Kariega are on the hunt for the gunmen who shot and killed a couple at a house in Kabah in the early hours of Monday morning.