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Detectives from the Provincial Organized Crime Investigation Unit are hunting for two gunmen who shot and killed two security officers in Kwazakhele on Tuesday afternoon.

Police divers have retrieved the bodies of two boys who drowned in the Swartkops River. They drowned in the river on Sunday afternoon.

A 54-year-old woman who was duped out of more than R4.7 million rand by a Gqeberha investment company says she hasn't gotten a single cent back. Cornelia Reitz testified in the case of 33-year-old Michael Rathbone and his 31-year-old husband, Leon Lewitton at the Specialised Commercial Crimes Court on Tuesday.

Police in Gqeberha are investigating a case of attempted murder after a wounded man drove himself to the Greenacres Hospital for medical treatment. The man, whose identity is known to Algoa FM, arrived at the hospital in a white Volkswagen Polo, pleading for help on Tuesday morning.

Buffalo City has become the second Metro to implement a precautionary "boil water alert" in order to protect the health of consumers. Residents are urged to boil water before drinking it or cooking with it, until further notice.

Kariega-based motor vehicle manufacturer Volkswagen says it's been made aware of an online scam in which fake job vacancies are being advertised at VWSA. Head Group Communications Andile Dlamini says the scamsters are then charging the applicants money during the recruitment process.

The Oudtshoorn Municipality has closed the local traffic department following the arrest of several staff members on charges of fraud, corruption, money laundering and contravening the Road Traffic Act. The Municipality says the arrests also left a hole in their staffing numbers in the Department.

Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality has admitted that the Metro’s water quality has deteriorated and that “certain microbiological limits were exceeded.”

A Gqeberha investment company whose owners are accused of duping more than R17-million from its clients was not registered as a financial service provider (FSP). This is according to a state witness who testified in the trial of 33-year-old Michael Rathbone and his 31-year-old partner, Leon Lewitton at the Specialised Commercial Crimes Court on Monday.