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The Nelson Mandela Bay Business Chamber says it is deeply concerned about the steady rise in new Covid-19 cases in the Metro.

Eastern Cape police have arrested two suspects in Cradock for the illegal possession of cellphone tower batteries valued at R250 000.

Police in Gqeberha opened an inquest docket after one person drowned when a vehicle plunged into the North End lake in Milner Avenue, Sydenham on Friday evening.

Police in Nelson Mandela Bay arrested two suspects for malicious damage to property, public violence, and damaging infrastructure after a truck was set alight on the Rocklands Road near Kariega in the early hours of Saturday morning.

Nelson Mandela Bay Executive Mayor, Nqaba Bhanga says the violent taxi strike in the Metro is over and taxis will be available again from Saturday morning.

The Hawks said that the case against the two Pakistani nationals 32-year-old Tanvar Kahman and the 36-year-old Rome Mohammed was postponed to the 7th of June for a formal bail application.

Two meetings are on the cards in a bid to resolve the local taxi industry impasse that has brought Nelson Mandela Bay to a standstill.

Police in Gqeberha are trying to identify a robbery suspect who was shot and killed by a member of the public in Struanway on Wednesday night.

She says it is alleged that the arrested woman sold her two children to the male suspects for sexual exploitation.