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Greenpeace Africa says the decision to allow oil giant Shell to continue with its plans to destroy the Wild Coast is very disappointing. The organisation's Senior Climate and Energy Campaign Manager, Happy Khambule, was reacting to the Grahamstown High Court dismissing an urgent application, with costs, to block Shell from proceeding with the Wild Coast seismic survey.

Drugs worth an estimated street value of more than R5 million were found at a Shell garage in Voorbaai in Mossel Bay in the early hours of Friday morning.

Organisers say almost all schools set to attend Plett Rage have positive cases. Based on the trajectory of this virus, this is only a tiny percentage of what they are now certain will show up. The numbers are only going to increase rapidly.

East London High Court Judge Thami Bheshe has sentenced convicted murderer Alutha Pasile to an effective 25 years in prison.

Ford Motor Company announced a R600-million investment in their Struandale Engine Plant in Gqeberha, to produce a new engine derivative and to support the existing assembly line.

The legal fees for a number of the accused in the Nelson Mandela Funeral scandal are believed to have been funded by the Buffalo City Municipality for the past seven years. However, It came to light during a pre-trial meeting of the various defence counsels in East London earlier this week that the BCM had withdrawn this funding, leaving many of the accused without the financial backing to pay their legal representatives.

A Gqeberha serial rapist has been sentenced to six life terms in the city's high court on Wednesday.

The Port Elizabeth's High Court has granted the National Authority's Asset Forfeiture Unit a preservation order to sell the former Eastern Cape Premier advisor, Zandisile Qupe's R3m Gqeberha home - allegedly bought with proceeds corruption, fraud and money laundering.

Two gangsters are in police custody following a shootout between rival gangs and police in the Northern Areas of Gqeberha. They will face two charges of attempted murder for the first shooting incident and for shooting at police.