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Port Elizabeth police have arrested an alleged armed robbery suspect and confiscated a stolen firearm.

Four police members from Makhanda have appeared in the Grahamstown Magistrate’s Court on charges of theft.

An Eastern Cape Education Specialist has been sentenced to 10 years in jail in the Grahamstown Regional Court for raping an 18-year-old woman last year.

Eastern Cape police have arrested a 29-year-old man for the alleged rape of a 73-year-old woman at Thembeni locality near Willowvale. SAPS thanks the community for not taking the law into their own hands.

A Bishop of the Episcopal Church of Ethiopia, Bishop Mzukisi Banzana has lost his appeal challenging his conviction and subsequent 12-year prison sentence imposed in 2017 for corruption.

The Democratic Alliance said hundreds of young learners from Laerskool Grens in Buffalo City are being crammed into overcrowded classrooms because work on the new school they were promised four years ago has ground to a halt.

Muir said the Metro’s health care system is over-stretched and is over-flowing with hospitals in both the public and private sectors running at full or near-full capacity.

The unemployment rate in the country has increased by 7.5% to 30.8% in the third quarter of the year which fell under the COVID-19 national lockdown.

The Premier of the Eastern Cape Province, Mr Lubabalo Oscar Mabuyane has tested positive for COVID-19.