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The Department of Transport in the Eastern Cape says there has been a significant spike in criminal activities and accidents in the Province since the country moved to Lockdown Level 3 on the fist of June.

The Department of Water and Sanitation reports that water levels in the Eastern Cape continue to decline week-on-week.

The Eastern Cape Education has confirmed that there are 20 covid19 positive cases in the school system across the province.

Port Elizabeth Police have opened up an inquest docket after community members alerted them to a skull that they had found in the bushes in Cotswold.

The Garden Route Primary School in Mossel Bay has been closed after a teacher has tested positive for Covid-19.

The 34-year-old man accused of axing his girlfriend to death at the weekend has been identified as Mlondi Ntlangulela.

A 25-year-old man from Centane was stabbed to death following an argument over a box of matches.

Alert police members attached to the Port Elizabeth Port of Entry seized drugs worth more than R80 000 whilst conducting their day to day duties at the Airport.

The National Council of SPCAs (NSPCA) has secured an urgent interim interdict in the Grahamstown High Court against inter alia, Al Mawashi and the Kuwaiti company who owns the Al Messilah vessel.