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A 32-year-old woman who works at the harbour in Gqeberha drowned in the early hours of Thursday morning. Spokesperson Captain Sandra Janse van Rensburg says the victim, who worked at the vehicle terminal was driving a Ford Ranger Cab onto a vessel when she suddenly accelerated.

The Gqeberha man who allegedly murdered his estate agent wife made his first appearance in the city's High Court on Thursday.

EC Health Department spokesperson, Sizwe Kupelo made a brief appearance in the Zwelitsha Magistrates Court on Wednesday for fraud, forgery, and uttering

The teacher from Kariega who allegedly faked his kidnapping, was granted bail in the local magistrates court on Wednesday.

A man who expressed interest in buying a truck on Facebook Marketplace is lucky to be alive after he shot and wounded the seller who pointed a firearm at him. Police in Gauteng say the incident happened in Winterveldt on Monday when the complainant responded to an advert on Marketplace for a truck worth R100 000.

The George Municipality has requested the Department of Forestry, Fisheries and Environment to give notices and directives to private property owners to clear their pampas grass. The city's Parks and Recreation Department say they have all the details on registered and approved herbicides to control the grass.

Kidnappings in South Africa sky-rocketed by 260% over the past decade, according to the Institute of Security Studies.

The man who allegedly staged his kidnapping in Kariega last week, made a brief appearance in the local magistrates court on Tuesday.

A student from Nelson Mandela Bay University (NMU) who was murdered in September last year had his degree posthumously conferred at the Madibaz Indoor Centre on Monday. Mziwenene Tinza, 23, was fatally stabbed in the chest at a student accommodation in University Way when he got embroiled in an argument which later turned physical.