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The Nelson Mandela Bay Business Chamber says the add-on cost of doing business in the Metro is rising exponentially due to the ongoing water crisis. CEO Denise van Huyssteen says companies have had to bring in water tankers, harvest rainwater, dig for boreholes and set up recycling capabilities.

The Provincial Police Commissioner of the Western Cape Lieutenant General Thembisile Patekile welcomed the harsh sentence imposed on a man who pretended to be an attorney in Oudtshoorn. Fifty-year-old Dale Ronald Harmse was sentenced to an effective 15 years in prison for fraud, money laundering and impersonating a legal practitioner.

A brave Motherwell shop assistant foiled an armed robbery on Thursday when he affected a citizen's arrest and disarmed one of the suspects. Captain Andre Beetge says two suspects entered an electrical business in Mkombe Street, Ikamvelihle, around 10 am and demanded cash and vehicle keys.

A 36-year-old man from Gqeberha says his life has been turned upside down after he was called by a bogus policeman who informed him that he was a suspect in a rape case. The victim, whose name is known to Algoa FM News, said the unexpected call came from a very professional "Captain" on Wednesday.

The body that has been found on the rocks in Mossel Bay on Wednesday has been identified as that of 21-year-old Arnold van der Mescht who went missing on the 20th of March when he was hit by a freak wave near a cave below Cecil Sheppard Street.

A Gqeberha woman, accused of strangling her boyfriend's child to death on Maitlands Beach this week, made another brief court appearance on Friday. 25-year-old Lesley-Ann Damons allegedly hiked to Maitlands with nine-year-old Quinisha Sebrand on Monday, where she strangled the child and left her body lying on the beach.

A Gqeberha woman, who is accused of strangling her boyfriend's child on Maitlands Beach this week, made a brief court appearance on Thursday. The 25-year-old Lesley-Ann Damons allegedly hiked to the beach with nine-year-old Quinisha Sebrand, where she was strangled and left on the beach.

Thousands of people on social media have expressed their shock and dismay after a 31-year-old honours student was slapped with a five-year prison sentence for stealing. Although she could serve her sentence and be out by Christmas, she has decided to appeal both her conviction and sentence.

The Xolani High School in Zwelitsha has paid tribute to one of their Grade 9 learners who took her own life. Anothando Willie committed suicide in her home on the 26th of March following an altercation with other students at the school.