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The Minister of Water and Sanitation, Senzo Mchunu will be in the Eastern Cape this week for a series of engagements with Premier Oscar Mabuyane and the provincial leadership to assess and resolve the water challenges in the Province.

Forensic evidence has linked a trial awaiting prisoner in Gqeberha with a second murder in the Metro. The two hit-style murders took place in 2019 in the same street in New Brighton, just a few months apart.

A man who sells second-hand computer goods in Gqeberha was arrested this week after an observant robbery victim identified her stolen laptops being advertised online.

Police say Ighaan Mallick allegedly pointed a firearm at the 45-year-old complainant in Zimdahl street last Saturday morning when she berated him as he passed her house on his skateboard.

Police in Gqeberha are searching for several men who robbed a group of teachers at a Primary School on Thursday.

A 21-year-old Eastern Cape woman charged with kidnapping a toddler at Kirkwood will make her second appearance in the local Magistrate’s Court on Friday. Veronique Willemse has been in custody since her arrest in Knysna on the 16th of August when police also found the missing child.

A Nelson Mandela Bay security firm says a Mount Pleasant family’s calmness in the face of danger, and following orders, was a life-saving decision during a home invasion earlier on Thursday.

A woman who stole over R13 million rand from the Eastern Cape Training Centre in Gqeberha over 10 years has been given a lengthy jail sentence.

Police in Gqeberha have confiscated counterfeit cell phone goods in Walmer and Central worth an estimated value of over R3 million.