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Gamble Street Secondary School in Kariega has shut its doors until Friday due to a shortage of at least nine educators at the school. The School Governing Body made the decision following a meeting with parents to address the issue at 07h30 on Wednesday morning. This left the school's more than 1400 learners and their teachers locked outside the gates of the building in Dower Avenue.

Gqeberha police arrested three suspects for a robbery at a garage in Rink Street on Tuesday. Spokesperson, Colonel Priscilla Naidu, says five men entered the garage and verbally threatened the 28-year-old complainant who was delivering and packing chips onto the shelves.

Detectives from the Kabega Park police station in Gqeberha have discovered the vehicle of a man who has been missing for over two weeks.

Police have arrested a 32-year-old man following the brutal murder of a mother and her two-year-old daughter in Stilbaai in the Western Cape. The bodies of Annemique Manho and her baby Almique, were found on Monday by her husband and son, who's in Grade 3.

Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality says the Metro has officially exited the fourth wave of Covid19 infections. The Head of Public Health, Thsonono Buyeye, made the announcement after reports were submitted to the Joint Operating Centre on Tuesday.

The Eastern Cape Education Department says the Kenton-on-Sea school children who were admitted to health facilities on Monday had consumed pap served with sour milk that had gone off over the weekend. Department spokesperson Mali Mtima says 120 learners from the Kamvalesizwe Primary School were admitted to clinics and the Port Alfred Hospital after complaining of stomach aches and vomiting.

A motor mechanic from Mbombela in the Mpumalanga Province is expected to appear in the Kwamhlanga Magistrates Court on Tuesday for allegedly exploiting a female client and driving her car without permission. Police spokesperson Brigadier Selvy Mohlala says the 34-year-old mechanic was working on an engine fault on his client's Chevrolet Aveo and when she paid the bill of R800 he refused to give it back.

Detectives from the Kabega Park police station in Gqeberha are seeking assistance from the community in tracing a man from Theescombe who went missing over two weeks ago. Police spokesperson Colonel Priscilla Naidu says the 56-year-old Carsten Jocksch left his residence on a smallholding in Kragga Kamma Road on the morning of the 2nd of February.

The Eastern Cape Education Department said about 120 learners from the Kamvalesizwe Primary School in Kenton-on-Sea, were admitted to the Port Alfred Hospital after complaining of stomach aches and vomiting.