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Dozens of patients, fed up with being ignored by protesting staff, carried chairs into Laetitia Bam Day Hospital in KwaNobuhle, Kariega, on Monday afternoon and shouted down the corridors.

Gqeberha police commended the alertness of the community which resulted in the arrest of a suspect and the seizure of an AK 47 rifle with ammunition in Algoa Park.

Police are investigating a case of culpable homicide after a woman was killed in an accident in Gqeberha on Monday afternoon.

The Good Party and Eastern Province Rugby have both extended their condolences to former Springbok and EP Rugby Coach Peter de Villiers on the sudden passing of his wife Theresa. She drowned in a swimming pool in Fairview, Gqeberha on Monday.

A man is expected to appear in the George Magistrates Court on Monday for allegedly raping his girlfriend twice, while she was passed out. Police spokesperson Captain Malcolm Pojie says the 46-year-old woman was drinking with her boyfriend and another friend on Saturday in Parkdene.

A couple in their 70's have been found at the notorious lookout point called Voëlklip in Herold’s Bay with gunshot wounds to the head.

Gqeberha police are appealing to residents in Central to assist them in tracing a suspect who fatally shot a man and wounding a woman in the early hours of Saturday morning.

Gqeberha police are searching for suspects involved in a double murder in Gelvandale on Saturday.

President and CEO of the South African Medical Research Council (SAMRC), Professor Glenda Gray, has expressed concern over the rising concentrations of SARS-CoV-2 RNA in certain wastewater treatment plants, and what it may mean for the prevalence of COVID-19 – this follows several months of relatively low concentrations as previously reported.