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EC Transport MEC has called on the province’s taxi industry to focus on diversifying their income streams and cease any violence in the sector.

Police in Gqeberha are investigating a house robbery and attempted murder following a home invasion in the early hours of Thursday morning. A spokesperson for police Captain Sandra Janse van Rensburg says the incident happened at 3.20 am in Dolpour Street in Kamma Heights. She says a woman woke up when three suspects switched on her light, demanding her cell phones.

A clandestine operation involving SAPS, SANParks, and the Cape Town Stock Theft Endangered Species Unit pounced on a traditional medicine shop where items from illegal suppliers were bought for muthi purposes.

The Eastern Cape Department of Health is on high alert following an isolated case of suspected cholera. Spokesperson Sizwe Kupelo said the department activated its highly trained outbreak response and health promotion teams as a precautionary measure.

A child pornographer who was part of an international child pornography ring was sentenced to an effective eight years in prison. Jan Hendrick le Roux, 66 was sentenced in the Wynberg Regional Court in the Western Cape on Wednesday.

A French restaurant boss has been charged over one death among multiple cases of botulism tied to improperly preserved sardines.

Boris Johnson on Wednesday apologised for "the pain and the loss and the suffering" caused by the Covid-19 pandemic.

Buffalo City Metro is offering ratepayers a debt incentive programme which could see half of their municipal debt being written off.

Two Zimbabwean nationals are in custody following their arrest in the Northern Cape on charges of trafficking in persons.