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Over 300 small and medium business owners in Nelson Mandela Bay closed down several municipal buildings and the offices of several councillors on Tuesday. They are demanding that Mayor Eugene Johnson give them a 30% share of all the City’s major tenders.

Aspen Pharmacare has announced that it will be producing an Aspen-branded Covid19 vaccine, Aspenovax, following an agreement between one of its subsidiaries, Aspen SA Operations and Janssen Pharmaceuticals, a division of Johnson and Johnson.

Eastern Cape Finance MEC, Mlungisi Mvoko, says his Education counterpart, Fundile Gade, will have no excuse not to procure stationery and textbooks for schools in advance, after allocating the lion's share of the provincial budget to him.

The appeal against the bail ruling of Gqeberha businessman, Arnold Terblanche has been dismissed in the city's High Court. The 55-year-old, who was not present in court, tried his hand at bail again after it was denied in the Magistrates Court in January.

Sentencing proceedings in the Sibongile Mani theft trial have been postponed to the 29th of March in the East London Magistrate's Court. The court postponed the matter on Tuesday to allow for the submission of a probation officer's report for the purposes of pre-sentencing.

Four men were jailed in the Regional Court in Qonce (KWT) in the Eastern Cape for robbing a clothing truck back in 2015.

The driver of a Volkswagen Polo is in police custody in Gqeberha for alleged drunk and negligent driving after he crashed into a police vehicle on Sunday morning before fleeing the scene of the accident. Police spokesperson Colonel Priscilla Naidu says the accident happened on the corners of Maku and Addo Road in NU2, Motherwell.

Police in Gqeberha say no foul play is suspected after the body of a teenage girl was found hanging from a powerline in Schauderville on Sunday.