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The brown locust plague affecting the Northern and Eastern Cape is already costing millions of rands to combat according to the National Department of Agriculture.

Police in Nelson Mandela Bay have arrested seven suspects who allegedly hijacked a grocery truck with produce valued at over R2.2 million.

A High school in Willowvale in the Eastern Cape has instructed all learners to undergo a drugs test before the start of the new school year in 2022. Female students will also be required to do a pregnancy test prior to being admitted.

Just after 6 am the body of 25-year-old Keenan Francis was found with a gunshot wound to his head.

Gqeberha police are searching for Bay mother, Sylvia Wittal, who was last spoken to on the 30th of December.

Gqeberha police are searching for a woman who was last spoken to on the 30th of December. Police spokesperson Captain Andre Beetge says the 45-year-old Sylvia Wittal allegedly last spoke to her ex-husband, Kevin Crouse when they made arrangements for their two children.

A Gqeberha taxi driver - who is one of more than a hundred drunken drivers arrested in the Eastern Cape over the New Year weekend - is expected to appear in court on Monday.

The Eastern Cape Health Department said a 13-year-old girl was one of 15 teenagers who gave birth on New Year’s Day.

More than a hundred motorists have been arrested for drunken driving in the Eastern Cape over the New Year's weekend.