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Fallon Edwards, 32, who was charged with the murder of her friend was sentenced to an effective 15 years behind bars on Tuesday after she entered into a plea agreement with the state in the Mossel Bay Regional Court.

A Sergeant attached to the Kamesh police station, who has been charged with murder, will be detained in a single cell at the St. Albans prison, pending the finalisation of his bail application. 

The Nelson Mandela Bay Business Chamber says the new booking system which was rolled out at the Port of Port Elizabeth in October has caused extensive backlogs in shipping products to and from markets.

Gqeberha police have confirmed that a stolen radioactive canister was safely recovered at a scrap yard dealer in North End on Monday morning.

Alleged extortionist Akhona Jacu on Tuesday made a brief appearance on charges of kidnappings in court in eQonce. The 40-year-old was arrested on charges of extortion in August 2023, and was later linked to five kidnappings of foreign national business owners in the border region.

Statistics SA says the country's official unemployment rate during the third quarter of 2023 decreased by 0,7% to 31,9%.

Gauteng police have made a major breakthrough in the fight against against child pornography by arresting three suspected online predators. They were arrested this week in operations carried out with the US Department of Homeland Security.

After the shock announcement by the KwaZulu-Natal provincial government that it was pulling the plug on funding for the event, the SAMAS will now go ahead as planned on November 18 at the SunBet Arena in Menlyn ,Pretoria,

A 31-year-old Gqeberha security officer was wounded in the chest during an armed robbery in Perseverance on Tuesday.