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A Gauteng couple has been sentenced in the Kempton Park Regional Court this week for their role in the smuggling of reptiles from South Africa. Gerald van der Westhuizen was fined R1 million of which half was suspended for five years on condition that he is not convicted of a similar offence.

Gqeberha police and representatives of the Environmental Health Committee shut down yet another Bakery on Wednesday for operating under unhygienic conditions.

Fans of the long-running Afrikaans soapie have launched an online petition in a desperate attempt to get the SABC to reconsider its decision to end the series.

The Gqeberha accountant accused of stealing more than R40 million from Sunridge Spar as well as R11 million from a franchise in Despatch appeared briefly in the city's Magistrates Court on Wednesday.

The court case regarding the tragedy surrounding the well-known Le Bon Bakery in Gqeberha was concluded in the city's High Court on Wednesday.

One of the men who attacked the Ngcobo Police station in February of 2018 has been sentenced in the Mthatha High Court. The attack that led to the death of five police officers and an off-duty soldier, made national headlines when the suspects were traced to the Mancoba Angels Church where a shoot-out ensued.

Police in Gqeberha are investigating the possibility that a body they discovered in the bushes on the old Coega Road is that of a missing local woman. Spokesperson Colonel Priscilla Naidu says on Sunday afternoon, 35-year-old Ayanda Dupa-Emenaha left her place of work at the harbour and dropped off a co-worker in Rink Street.

An 82-year-old substitute teacher from a private school in Pretoria has been dismissed for allegedly promoting racism. Gauteng Education MEC Matome Chiloane says the woman was busy teaching her Grade 8 English class on Monday when she wrote racist remarks on the whiteboard.

SA’s much-loved Springbok Faf de Klerk has found himself at the center of a playful search for the Bok player who most resembles Barbie's suave boyfriend Ken.