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Three people were killed in an accident on the N2 near Mthatha in the Eastern Cape in the early hours of Saturday morning.

More than 70 pupils at a school in Port St Johns in the Eastern Cape were rushed to hospital on Friday following suspected poisoning.

A 69-year-old Gqeberha man has been jailed for life raping his young granddaughter.

ANC President Cyril Ramaphosa says he is convinced that the governing party will regain control of Nelson Mandela Bay when local government elections are held on 1 November.

A 19-year-old Kariega man who was charged with killing his 16-year-old girlfriend and burying her in a shallow grave in his backyard made his first appearance in the town's Magistrates Court on Friday.

Learners in nearly 1 500 Eastern Cape schools are still having to use pit toilets, many of them broken, filthy and stinking. At some schools GroundUp visited, teachers send learners home to use the toilet because the toilets at the school are unusable. Sometimes there is no money to get the toilets emptied.

Police in Qonce (formerly King Williams Town) are appealing for the public's assistance in solving the murder of a pregnant woman who was assassinated outside her house in June last year. The 35-year-old Sibahle Sowazi was employed in local government and was the personal assistant to the MEC of COGTA, Xolile Nqata.

Pregnant women are sleeping outside the Mthatha Gateway Clinic in the hope of getting an appointment for an abortion.

A 19-year-old man from Kamesh handed himself over to police on Wednesday night for the murder of his 16-year-old girlfriend. Captain Andre Beetge says the suspect led police to a shallow grave at his home in Bauhinia Crescent where her remains were found.