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Two EC environmental activists have received global recognition for their efforts in stopping seismic testing for oil and gas off the Wild Coast.

Sponsors include animal welfare organisations such as Stop Rhino Poaching, Animal Survival International (Brady Hunter Foundation), Dancing for Rhinos and others like Tocoforce (the developer of an eco-lodge near the Park) and Rouxcell Technology.

Mabuyane welcomes EC cannabis investment but raised concern at the slow pace of creating enabling legislation.

GOOD councillor Lawrence Troon has been ordered to cough up R130 000 in damages following defamatory statements made against the EFF regional chairperson in Gqeberha, Khanya Ngqisha. 

The murder trial against an alleged member of the New Kids gang was postponed in the Gqeberha High Court on Monday due to health issues on the part of the accused. 

Plea negotiations are underway between the State and the defence in the Desiree Baartman murder trial.

In 2010, represented by the Legal Resource Centre (LRC), the school won a landmark court case declaring the school's learning environment unconstitutional. But besides the addition of some prefabricated classrooms in 2011, the department did nothing to meet the court order.

Four suspects who jumped out of a moving vehicle to flee from police have been apprehended along the R102 near Humansdorp for transporting Mandrax. Police spokepserson Captain Marius McCarthy says members were on patrol on Saturday when they received intel about a white Hyundai travelling towards town.

Detectives in Cookhouse are seeking the community's assistance in tracing a man who ran away from the Middleton Rehabilitation Care Centre on Monday.