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Five people were arrested in Mthatha on Monday after shots were fired at police. The incident comes amid a blockade of the N2 entry points to the town.

Inquest docket opened after three perish in Mossel Bay fire.

A protest reportedly by taxi operators brought Mthatha to a standstill on Monday with the airport also closed for the time being.

A passenger on an Intercape bus travelling from Durban to Cape Town died after having an asthma attack on Saturday.

Eastern Cape police confiscated 38 pistols and five rifles from a group of people from a taxi organisation who gathered at the Nelson Mandela Hospital in Mthatha on Thursday.

The Hawks in the Eastern Cape are investigating a brazen cash-in-transit robbery that took place on the R410 near Cacadu (formerly Lady Frere) on Friday.

Lambinon says on arrival at Port St Johns, the NSRI Port Edward rescue craft determined that the casualty sailing yacht and the life raft had drifted in the overcast heavy rain conditions, with up to 2-meter sea swells and they were at that stage in the vicinity of Coffee Bay.

A 62-year-old security guard from a school in Lusikisiki is in police custody following the fatal shooting of a 13-year-old learner. Police spokepserson Colonel Priscilla Naidu says the child was killed and his friend injured at the Matafeni Junior Secondary School on Thursday night.

Two male police officers were killed and one female officer seriously injured when their van burst a tyre on Friday.