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The re-naming of Grahamstown to Makhanda will be challenged in the High Court as opponents claim the process was procedurally invalid and based on incorrect historical information.That’s the latest from the Keep Grahamstown Grahamstown

A four-year-old Port Elizabeth girl is in hospital after being hit in the back when rival gangsters fired shots at each other on Sunday.Police spokesperson, Colonel Priscilla Naidu, said the incident happened just before 1 pm in Kobus Road in

Four people are dead, and a Port Elizabeth woman is fighting for her life in hospital as a result of actions linked to this past week’s protests that rocked Plettenberg Bay.Bitou Municipality spokesperson, Manfred van Rooyen, writing in his

The Port Elizabeth Family Violence, Child Protection and Sexual Offences Unit is urgently trying to trace an 8-year old boy from Barcelona in Gelvandale.Spokesperson, Col Pricilla Naidu says according to police information, Recolin Keagan Witbooi

A 54-year old man from Port Elizabeth has been killed in a motorbike accident on the N2 in the city.Police spokesperson, WO Alwin Labans says the accident happened on Saturday evening between the Cotswold en Standford Road offramps.[MobileAd]He says

Humansdorp police have arrested a man for the illegal possession of drugs at the weekend.Police spokesperson, Sergeant Majola Nkohli says officers were on routine patrols in the Vaaldam area at the town on Saturday afternoon, when they spotted a

Port Elizabeth police are searching for four suspects, who robbed the Pelo's Cafe in Cape Road, Newton Park on Saturday evening.Spokesperson, WO Alwin Labans says two men, armed with firearms, entered the shop at around 7.30 pm and held two

The Department of Environmental Affairs said it was monitoring an oil spill in Algoa Bay.The incident happened in the early hours of Saturday morning, “during offshore bunkering operations in Anchorage 1 of the Port of Ngqura”.Department

The Bitou Municipality at Plettenberg Bay said that an elderly woman had died during this past week’s protest period.In a brief statement on Saturday, Bitou Municipality mayor, Msimbothi Lobese, and his Council offered condolences to the