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Police in Gqeberha are investigating after burglars caused damage running into hundreds of thousands of rand to the Motherwell Library.

A 37-year-old man was sentenced to an effective 15-years in prison after he sexually assaulted a 96-year-old woman at an old age home in Mossel Bay. Mark Labuschagne, who worked as a handyman at the Adler Nest Retirement Village also exposed himself to a 79-year-old woman at the same facility.

Seven people were killed in a multi-vehicle accident on the R61 outside Aberdeen early on Monday morning. The Eastern Cape Transport Department said a fully-loaded mini-bus taxi heading to the Western Cape crashed into a stationary recovery vehicle at the site where a broken-down bus was being repaired.

The trial of a man charged with the 2019 murder of Gqeberha flying squad member, Constable Dwane Kemp is expected to start in the city's High Court on Tuesday. Thirty-one-year-old Kemp was shot in the hand and twice in the abdomen during an armed robbery at the Le Bon bakery in Rose Street, in Central on the 21st of January 2019.

Police in Gqeberha are investigating a case of culpable homicide after a teenager was killed in a single-vehicle accident on Sunday. Spokesperson Colonel Priscilla Naidu says just before 4 pm the driver of a white VW Polo, travelling on Victoria Drive, near Schoenmakerskop, lost control of the vehicle and careered into the bushes.

A 28-year-old Knysna man is due to appear in court on Monday for the alleged murder of his mother.

Police in Gqeberha arrested a 28-year old murder suspect on Saturday after the body of a man was found in Bloemendal last month.

Eastern Cape Transport MEC, Weziwe Tikana-Gxotiwe says she believes a proper review of two audit reports on the functioning of scholar transport in the province ahead of the 2022 school year, is key to understanding challenges and improving the system.

Police Minister, Bheki Cele, is expected in East London on Saturday to deliver the eulogy at the funeral service of police diver, Captain Pierre Marx, who died in the line of duty last weekend.