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A 26-year-old suspect will make his first appearance in the Gqeberha Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday on charges of murder and housebreaking following his arrest on Friday.

Services at some healthcare facilities in Nelson Mandela Bay have been affected after workers embarked on an unprotected strike.

Three people were killed in an accident between a passenger bus and a car on the N2 near Humansdorp on Friday.

The East London Regional Court will rule on 13 May on the application for leave to appeal by convicted Walter Sisulu University student, Sibongile Mani against her five-year prison sentence.

Police in Jeffreys Bay are investigating a case of murder after the body of a woman was found inside a vehicle on the R102 on Friday afternoon.

Nelson Mandela Bay is potentially facing a humanitarian crisis where a serious water shortage and accompanying collapse of the sanitation system may lockdown more than a third of the Metro from the supply of critical water and sanitation services.

A 27-year-old, who worked as a radiographer in Gqeberha allegedly without the necessary qualifications, took the stand to tell her "side of the story" at the city's Specialised Commercial Crimes Court on Friday. The State alleges that Asisipho Mbekela, lied about obtaining her qualification from the Cape Peninsula University of Technology in 2016. In February last year, state witnesses testified that Mbekela had dismally failed her modules and therefore she couldn't have qualified for any re-assessment.

An Eastern Cape High Court judge has given judicial protection to a ten-year-old victim of rape and made a “therapy order”, possibly unprecedented, that the child must receive monthly counselling for two years. Those responsible for counselling the child must report back to the court on progress every six months.

Humansdorp Secondary School has been closed indefinitely because of a myriad of issues at one of the largest high schools in the Kouga Municipal Area. The school has close on 2000 learners who are now sitting at home as the school is unable to function properly because eight teachers have still not received their permanent letters of appointment from the Bhisho Department of Education.