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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.

Three people were killed following a collision between a truck and a Sedan between Cookhouse and Cradock on Tuesday night.

A young spearfisherman is recovering in hospital after accidentally being shot through the leg while spearfishing between Seaview and Beach View on Tuesday.

A funeral home data capturer has appeared in court for fraud after she allegedly submitted a funeral policy claim on behalf of a deceased person and pocketed the money.

The Democratic Nursing Organisation of South Africa in the Eastern Cape said it was in full support of the call by Premier, Oscar Mabuyane, for the alcohol sales ban to be re-instated.

A 34-year-old man who attacked his girlfriend with a knife and axe in front of several eyewitnesses will make his first court appearance in Mossel Bay on Wednesday.

Six people have been killed in two separate head-on collisions in the Eastern Cape on Monday. A seventh death was recorded when a pedestrian was hit on the R56 between Maclear and Mt Fletcher, near Katkop.

The Eastern Cape Education Department said the opening of schools on Monday went off “smoothly”. That is according to Department spokesperson, Loyiso Pulumani, who said "most schools" reopened, while also acknowledging that some schools still faced "challenges" with respect to the provision of water and sanitation and Personal Protective Equipment.