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Four women who claim that they were forced to drop their underwear to confirm their menstrual status have each laid a charge of crimen injuria against their employers.

About 100 activists from different women's organisations turned up at the Zwelitsha Magistrate's Court on Monday. That is where a woman in her early twenties made her first appearance for allegedly killing a man whom she caught trying to rape her one-year-old niece.

More than 60% of Non-Profit Organisations in the Eastern Cape did not receive a single cent of their 2020/2021 subsidy payments from the Department of Social Development, according to the Democratic Alliance.

A police spokesperson Captain Dineo Koena says the men, who were armed with rifles and a petrol bomb, kicked the door open at the 40-year-old woman's house and demanded to see her husband, who was not home at the time.

Police at Fort Beaufort have arrested two suspects and seized a sizeable quantity of dagga worth in the region of R50 000.

Port Elizabeth police have appealed to the public to help find three teenagers who left the MTR Smit Children’s Home on Friday, and have not been seen since.

A 27-year-old man has been arrested for allegedly sexually assaulting a woman in a COVID-19 quarantine facility in Mossel Bay.

Eastern Cape premier, Lubabalo Mabuyane has called on local and traditional leaders as well as the community of Ngcobo to work with the South African Police Service to fight crime in the area as a matter of urgency.

Eastern Cape police have launched a manhunt for three suspects who shot and killed four family members and wounded another one in three separate attacks in Tsolo in the OR Tambo district.