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The Tactical Response Team was out in full force in Korsten in Gqeberha on Thursday where violence broke out in Durban road a day earlier. Officers also swooped on a store in Durban Road after business owners were seen brandishing firearms during Wednesday's violence which is believed to have been sparked by a road accident involving a taxi and a car driven by a local businessman.

Select Committee on Trade and Industry in Parliament, wants an investigation to be launched into the display of weaponry among citizens amid the violence that broke out in Gqeberha. Chaos erupted in Korsten on Wednesday following an accident between a car, believed to belong to a businessman in the area and a mini-bus taxi driver.

Two foreign-owned Spaza shops were petrol bombed in Gqeberha on Wednesday night. Police Spokesperson Colonel Priscilla Naidu said one incident was reported in Zwide and another in Kwazakhele.

Police in Gqeberha were on high alert on Wednesday after an accident between a car and a mini-bus taxi led to scenes of chaos in Korsten.

A decommissioned art gallery owned by the Enoch Mgijima Municipality in Komani has burnt down. Municipality spokesperson, Lonwabo Kowa, says community members alerted the municipality's call centre to the fire at about 10 pm on Monday.

The body of a young boy who went missing at Diaz Beach in Mossel Bay on Wednesday last week has been found. The five-day-long search for the nine-year-old Jason Nomdo ended in tragedy when his mother found his body lying on the rocks on Monday afternoon.

Tributes are pouring in for the two paddlers who died during the first stage of the Fish River Canoe Marathon on Friday. The 53-year-old paddler from Pretoria Axel Marggraf died when he fell out of his canoe in the Soutpansdrift rapid, while the 31-year-old Dean Chiazzari from Amanzimtoti died after suffering a suspected heart attack.

The Local Business Committee (LBC) – a group claiming to have the support of more than 5 000 small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality – has thrown its weight behind Karpowership’s plan for a gas-to-electricity ‘power ship’ to be moored in the Eastern Cape industrial port of Coega.

A suspected vehicle hijacker shot and killed himself, before a second suspect was arrested near eMaxesibeni, formerly Mount Ayliff, in the Eastern Cape.