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Five men are in police custody after allegedly kicking a vagrant to death in Central Gqeberha on Thursday night. The incident just before 10 pm in Rink Street.

Eastern Cape Community Safety MEC, Xolile Nqatha, has welcomed the arrest of the ex-wife of a Gqeberha doctor in connection with his murder.

A student who is being accused of murdering a 20-year-old woman on the Nelson Mandela University (NMU)'s George campus, made his first appearance in the local Magistrate's Court on Thursday. Twenty-two-year-old Luyanda Mahlanza is accused of brutally killing his girlfriend and fellow student in her room on Tuesday.

Eastern Cape police have launched a manhunt for unknown suspects after two taxi bosses were gunned down in Mthatha. Spokesperson Warrant Officer Majola Nkohli says police were notified of the double murder on Wednesday night when a Toyota bakkie with two occupants crashed into the gate of a Bed and Breakfast in Slovo Park.

An icon to all those in the wrestling fraternity, Hossein Khosrow Ali Vaziri, better known as ‘The Iron Sheik’, has died ‘peacefully’ at the age of 81. News of his passing was shared via his own Twitter account.

Professor Madonsela has taken to Twitter to warn others after being fleeced of thousands of rands in a WhatsApp scam.

Eastern Cape Police have launched a manhunt for a group of heavily armed men who robbed a Post Office in Ngqeleni. Police spokesperson Warrant Officer Majola Nkholi says police were alerted about a robbery shortly before noon on Wednesday and responded to the scene.

Nelson Mandela Bay political parties voted on Wednesday to approve the city’s capital and operating budget of R19.1 billion for the new financial year.

A female police officer was shot and wounded while on duty at a satellite police station in Theunissen in the Free State.