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The Health Department has deployed a team of experts to the Eastern Cape to assist it in dealing with the rise in covid19 cases in the province.

Port Elizabeth detectives are on a manhunt for two suspects who killed a young mother in her house in Timothy Valley on Sunday.

The Department of Correctional Services has accused prisoner rights activist Golden Miles Bhudu of the South African Prisoners Organisation for Human Rights (SAPOHR) “and other individuals” of instigating inmates to revolt.

VWSA is turning its attention to manufacturing face masks and mechanical ventilators as part of its fight against the Covid19 pandemic

The sex trafficking trial involving controversial Nigerian Pastor, Timothy Omotoso has been provisionally postponed to the 11th of May.

Police in Dutywa in the Eastern Cape arrested two people for allegedly selling permits to people wanting to travel to Cape Town.

The Mnquma Local Municipality in Butterworth says it is investigating a video recording which allegedly exposes what appears to be bags of mealie meal infested with maggots. It says these bags were part of food parcels that were distributed to communities as part of government's efforts to provide food security during the national COVID-19 lockdown.

Eastern Cape Health MEC, Sindiswa Gomba says she will submit a proposal to Premier Lubabalo Mabuyane that will hopefully help to flatten the curve of COVID-19 in the province. She says there has been a worrying trend of people breaking the lockdown regulations, including more than 50 people at funerals.