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Detectives in George are investigating a charge of fraud against Ettienne Scheepers whose wife, Heidi, died with her two children after the vehicle they were travelling in crashed over a cliff at Voëlklip in Herolds Bay in October 2019. Police spokesperson Captain Malcolm Pojie says the couple managed a business together called, Herold's Café that was sold by Scheepers 14-months ago.

Police in East London are investigating a double murder following the discovery of two bodies at Woolwash Road. Police Spokesperson Brigadier Thembinkosi Kinana says members of the Scenery Park Community Service Centre attended the crime scene.

A 33-year-old man has been shot and killed during a robbery at a shop next to a garage in Gonubie in East London.

The Eastern Cape Transport MEC Weziwe Tikana-Gxotiwe says her family is battling to come to terms with the sudden loss of a loved one following yet another accident on the R61.

The Amathole District Municipality is distancing itself from the alleged assault of a female councillor. The incident took place in the ADM head offices on Monday and was captured on video which has subsequently gone viral - alongside the allegation that this is how whistleblowers are treated.

A 38-year-old man was sentenced to life imprisonment on Monday for the 2019 murder of Gqebeerha community patroller, Billy Kleinhans.

Buffalo City Municipality says its recent notice to residents about registering their rainwater tanks with the Municipality, was not an attempt to make money out of residents.

A well-known pastor from EmaXesibeni (formerly Mount Ayliff) who is charged with rape has been unsuccessful in his bid for bail. Forty-five-year-old pastor Mbongiseni Pakade initially abandoned his bid for bail but at his second court appearance in December he made a fresh bid to be released.

Seven contractors have been injured after the steel structure of the roof collapsed at the Rail Sheds restoration site in Kariega.