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Municipal spokesperson, Lonwabo Kowa, says the damage caused by vandals who they believed tried to steal copper pipes, was severe. He says that earlier mechanical works to repair it was also not successful.

Walter Sisulu University honour's student, Sibongile Mani, has been jailed for five years for the theft of R800 000 of the R14 million that had been erroneously paid into her student account. Delivering her sentence on Wednesday, Magistrate Twanet Olivier, said while guided by case law, the court was of the view that a suspended sentence would be totally inappropriate.

Detectives from Kabega Park in Gqeberha are looking for the public's help in identifying the skeletal remains of a man who was found in the bushes in Greenbushes on Sunday. Police Spokesperson Colonel Priscilla Naidu says children who were playing in the bushes near Zwelindinga informal settlement stumbled onto the skeleton.

The heavy rain and lightning storm that hit Nelson Mandela Bay on Tuesday has claimed the life of a 17-year-old teenager from Motherwell.

The Ministry of Water and Sanitation was deeply concerned about the instability and governance challenges at Amatola Water as an entity, which has, in turn, affected the provision of water to communities in the Buffalo City Metropolitan area.

Police in Gqeberha have arrested a 25-year-old woman who allegedly murdered her boyfriend's nine-year-old daughter at Maitlands Beach on Monday.

Nelson Mandela Bay could have its own Big Five game reserve within the next two years. That's if all the plans being hatched by well-known businessman and entrepreneur, Adrian Gardiner, of the Mantis Group, come to fruition.

A Sergeant who works at the Tactical Response Team in Gqeberha has been missing for eleven days. Police spokesperson Captain Sandra Janse van Rensburg says 37-year-old Sergeant Thulani Hempe was last seen at court on the 18th of March where he was attending to a personal matter.

The Eastern Cape Department of Social Development has forfeited over R67 million in Social Relief of Distress Grant money for food parcels for poor communities.