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The PE branch of the SA weather service has advised that cold and windy conditions will prevail over most of the Eastern Cape on Saturday.Light snowfalls are expected over the peaks of the Cape Fold Mountains and the Winterberg in the areas of

Transnet said on Friday it anticipates that it will take close to two weeks to clear the backlog at the Ngqura Container Terminal in Port Elizabeth, which has been hit by unprotected industrial action.Workers embarked on the protest more than two

A serial rapist and murderer has been given four life sentences in the regional court in Komani, formerly Queenstown.Eastern Cape police spokesperson, Captain Khaya Tonjeni, said that 37-year-old Headman Mdyosi, was also sentenced on Friday to a

A 76-year-old Uitenhage man has died in a fire that engulfed his informal home in Kwanobuhle.Police spokesperson, Captain Gerda Swart, said Nontozinzima Nkwinti, was asleep in his dwelling in Kwatsha Crescent on Thursday night when it caught alight

Two directors of a Port Elizabeth-based construction company appeared in the city's Commercial Crimes Court this week on charges of tax fraud amounting to approximately R46m.Hawks Eastern Cape spokesperson, Captain Anelisa Ngcakani, said 65

An awaiting trial prisoner who escaped from the Stutterheim Magistrate's Court this week has been rearrested.Police spokesperson, Captain Siphokazi Mawisa, said that 27-year-old Buzile Hlungwini was recaptured late last night after police

Police in Durban have arrested three suspected drug dealers after raiding their premises in Phoenix on Thursday.Spokesperson Lieutenant Colonel Thulani Zwane says an intelligence-driven operation was conducted and drugs to the value of nearly two

A resident from Sedgefield who allegedly operated a fake holiday rental scam in the Garden Route has been denied bail in the Thembalethu Magistrate's Court in George on Thursday.The 32-year-old suspect, Marianne Roux, made her first court

Authorities successfully managed to contain an oil spill which occurred when a cargo vessel was being refuelled in the Port of Ngqura at Port Elizabeth, the South African Maritime Safety Authority (SAMSA) said in a statement on Thursday.SAMSA said