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With around 17 per cent of votes counted after the general elections in South Africa, the African National Congress (ANC) was living up to its title of the ruling party.By 06h30, the ANC had just over a million votes, followed by the Democratic

Uitenhage police are on the hunt for those involved in two separate shooting incidents in the area in the past 48 hours.Uitenhage police spokesperson, Sergeant Majola Nkohli, says in one incident 28-year-old Dwyane Vogel was fatally wounded while

The Independent Electoral Commission said that five voting stations, two in the Eastern Cape, were not able to open by 5pm on Wednesday.This, despite the “best efforts of security agencies, government representatives and the IEC.”In a

Electoral officials were on Wednesday investigating two incidents in the Buffalo City municipality where people manning political party tables allegedly asked residents for their names and told them they need not try to vote as their names did not

Police in Port Elizabeth are urgently looking for assistance in identifying a murder victim whose body was found dumped on the side of the road leading to Blue Horizon Bay on Tuesday.The man who had several stab wounds on his head, also had his

Drama unfolded outside a polling station in Helenvale in Port Elizabeth on Wednesday when police and the military were called to inspect a house alleged to be storing a ballot box.However, it later emerged that the box in question was a black

A 58-year-old woman was injured when gunmen opened fire on the taxi she was travelling in, in Motherwell, Port Elizabeth on Tuesday night.Spokesperson Captain Andre Beetge says the privately owned taxi was dropping off passengers in Soweto on Sea at

Three prisoners are on the run after escaping from the Middeldrift Correctional Centre in the Eastern Cape on Tuesday.They are Sizwe Mhlana, Andisa Vas and Aziwe Nkwalase who were serving lengthy jail sentences for crime ranging from attempted

The owner of a takeaway shop in Port Elizabeth who was shot by a 'customer' buying a pie at his store, had died.The 36-year-old Foreign National Anamul Mohammed was shot twice in the chest at his business premises in Commercial Road on