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From millions of African penguins in the early 1900s, only about 8,000 breeding pairs are left. The International Union for the Conservation of Nature has elevated the bird’s risk of extinction status to “critically endangered”.

Most of the survivors are not South African, and many do not have valid papers allowing them to work in the country, making access to compensation difficult. None of the families we spoke to has received any compensation from the Department of Labour.

Search and Rescue teams attached to the K9 unit in Gqeberha are currently at the notorious 3rd Avenue Dip in Newton Park, where a motorcyclist reportedly got swept away.

Eastern Cape police have mobilised maximum resources in the search for the suspects involved in two heinous attacks in the Bityi administrative in the last 24 hours. Police spokesperson Lt Col Siphokazi Mawisa says in the first incident, the mother-in-law to Xhosa traditional leader, Chief Ndaba Mtirara, was gunned down on Tuesday at Mqhekezweni administrative area outside Mthatha by two unknown men wearing balaclavas. 

She has a twin sister, Mimmy, a boyfriend named Dear Daniel, and a pet cat. She loves her mother's apple pie and dreams of becoming a pianist or poet.

Citizens of diamond-rich Botswana voted in general elections Wednesday with the ruling party seeking to extend its nearly six-decade rule and hand a second term to President Mokgweetsi Masisi.

Bitou Municipality says it's proud to have retained Blue Flag status for six beaches in the Municipal area.

An 18-year-old Eastern Cape man has been sentenced to an effective 25 years in jail for the rape and murder of a two-year-old child on a farm near Kwanojoli, formerly Somerset East.

Two men who were charged with four others for the brutal murders of 18 people in Lusikisiki in the Eastern Cape last month, abandoned their bail when they appeared in court on Tuesday.