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Consumers who bought Appletiser products recently are urged to immediately return them to retailers following a recall by Coca-cola Beverages South Africa. The Acting National Consumer Commissioner Ms Thezi Mabuza says according to Coca-Cola Beverages South- Africa, their quality check routine including laboratory testing revealed that certain batches contain toxins that are outside of the acceptable standards.

Twelve awaiting trial are on the run after escaping from police holding cells in Kwabacha, formerly Mount Frere. Police spokesperson Colonel Priscilla Naidu says the prisoners escaped through a hole in the wall, in the early hours of this morning.

An Eastern Cape policewoman, who was charged in absentia with murder, has died in hospital after wounding herself in the head on Saturday. Police say the 40-year-old, who was stationed at Maclear, died on Wednesday while under police guard in hospital.

East London police are searching for the suspects involved in an armed robbery at a retail store in Vincent Park Shopping Centre on Wednesday evening.

39-year-old Pierre Potgieter was shot in the head in Newton Park while chasing a number of hijacking suspects in his bakkie

A police bomb squad was dispatched to a bank in Qonce on Tuesday afternoon after a threat was received.

The man accused of the brutal murder of Fort Hare University student, Nosicelo Mtebeni, made his second court appearance in the East London Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday. The NPA says the case against 25-year-old Alutha Pasile was postponed to 28 September.

The Eastern Cape Department of Rural Development and Agrarian Reform says around 11 500 household pets were vaccinated against rabies since the recent outbreak in Nelson Mandela Bay.

The East London High court has sentenced four men to life imprisonment plus 23 years for murder, robbery, and the possession of an unlicensed firearm and ammunition. This follows an incident in 2016 in which the gang hijacked a vehicle in Mdantsane.