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Eastern Cape police arrested five men they said were allegedly planning an armed robbery in the Qumbu area on Monday.

The former Deputy Minister for Defence, Mluleki George, will be laid to rest in an official send-off in his home village of Kwa-Qongqotha, outside King Wiliams Town on Tuesday.

Residents living in shacks in the Westville informal settlement in Nelson Mandela Bay are now able to use electricity for the first time.

The Independent Police Investigative Directorate said a Uitenhage policeman charged with the rape of an eight-year-old has been dismissed.

A group of East London-based volunteers, including doctors, engineers and entrepreneurs, have developed a portable, the cost-effective device said to deliver high levels of oxygen to Covid19 patients and helps keep their lungs from collapsing.

Five suspects arrested for the rape and murder of a Port Elizabeth teenager will remain behind bars.

Two people were killed and two others, including a 4-year-old girl, were injured in an accident in Motherwell, Port Elizabeth on Monday.

The South African Municipal Workers’ Union in the Eastern Cape Province has called for the cash-strapped Amatole District Municipality to be placed under administration.

Port Elizabeth police are investigating the murder of a man who was killed after being accused of raping a woman.