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A 25-year-old Gqeberha man has been jailed for a total of 33 years after being convicted on numerous charges including the murder of an innocent bystander.

Phumelela Gaming and Leisure’s defunct Arlington Racecourse in Nelson Mandela Bay has been sold on auction for R25.7 million.

A trader selling counterfeit perfumes in North End, Gqeberha was issued with a warning and had his goods valued at over R1.5 million confiscated by police.

Vuyisani Xaka who was already serving a 20-year sentence for an unrelated matter at the time of his arrest in January 2018, was sentenced at the East London Regional Court on Wednesday.

Police in Despatch are investigating a case of malicious damage to property after a truck was torched by a group of people on the R75.

Two former police constables have been sentenced to 20 years imprisonment for the murder of a 20-year-old man in Alice in the Eastern Cape.

Buffalo City District Police Commissioner, Major General Henry Vos, has welcomed the sentencing of a young man to an effective 24 years imprisonment for killing his grandmother and uncle in September last year at their home in Mdantsane.

Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality says about 40% of the R200m Coega Kop borehole project is complete, with its final completion expected in September next year.

A student from Walter Sisulu University made a brief appearance in the Mthatha Magistrate’s Court on Thursday in connection with the torching of a police vehicle during a student protest this week.