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Port Alfred police have seized 13 000 Mandrax tablets with a street value of R780 000 and arrested two suspects following a high-speed chase on the R72 coastal road.

One person has been killed and four others injured, one seriously, in a three-vehicle crash on the Perseverance Road in Port Elizabeth.

Police divers from East London recovered the body of a boy who drowned at Peddie outside King Williams Town on Sunday. Spokesperson Captain Khaya Tonjeni says police received a report of a drowning incident and immediately mobilised a team who rushed to the scene.

A taxi driver from Elliot is expected to appear in the town's Magistrate's Court on Tuesday for allegedly kidnapping and raping a teenager.

Four people, including a child, were killed in a horrific accident on the N2 near Mossel Bay on Monday night. A spokesperson for Provincial Traffic Kenny Africa says the child, whose age is unknown at this stage, burnt to death.

Police in Port Elizabeth are investigating the death of a man who was killed in an apparent hit in New Brighton on Sunday.

Three people have been killed and four others injured in a head-on collision involving two vehicles on the R61 between Cofimvaba and Ngcobo.

The ongoing trial of rape accused Nigerian pastor Timothy Omotoso hit another snag in the Port Elizabeth High Court on Monday.

The Minister of Education, Science and Technology, Dr Blade Nzimande says he has had separate meetings with the University of Fort Hare's management and Student Representative Council, and both parties recommitted to further engagements on the challenges at the institution.