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Police in Gqeberha have launched a manhunt for suspects after three people were shot and killed in New Brighton yesterday. Police spokesperson Captain Sandra Janse van Rensburg says the youngest victim was only 15-years-old.

Kariega police are searching for a suspect who allegedly set a house on fire in Blikkiesdorp on Sunday morning, in which two people died.

Three suspects, aged between 36 and 41, are expected to appear in the Cradock Magistrate's Court soon after they were found in possession of an undisclosed amount of money.

Gqeberha police launched a manhunt for two armed suspects who robbed a Post Office in Sidwell of an undisclosed amount of cash on Saturday.

Two lions have been transferred from the Seaview Predator Park in Gqeberha to their new home in Bethlehem in the eastern Free State.

A man who fleeced a Gqeberha woman out of hundreds of thousands of rands has been convicted of the crime in the city's regional court. Hawks Eastern Cape spokesperson, Captain Yolisa Mgolodela, says 35-year-old Raydson Ntsala was convicted in Gqeberha on Thursday.

Four officials from the South African Social Security Agency (SASSA) in the Eastern Cape appeared in the Specialised Commercial Crimes Court in Gqeberha on Friday in connection with fraud charges amounting to R5.7 million.

A 37-year-old man is expected to appear in the Cradock Magistrates Court on Friday following his arrest for transporting frozen abalone. Police spokesperson Captain Lariane Jonker says the suspect and his alleged accomplice travelled in a convoy through Cradock and caught the attention of the Crime Prevention Unit.

The Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality has concluded a memorandum of understanding with organised business to safeguard municipal infrastructure which has become the target of vandalism.