EAST London police are working around the clock to solve a suspected satanic murder of a 21-year-old man.
Eastern Cape director of public prosecutions Zandile Ntsaluba said on Wednesday he was confident the State had new evidence likely to lead to a conviction in the double murder and robbery case against Dumisani Ncamazana and his brother Simnikiwe.
Former Eastern Cape Truth and Reconciliation (TRC) commissioner Reverend Bongani Finca has come out in support of the presidential pardon granted to 33 prisoners whose were refused amnesty by the TRC.
Eight people were reported missing in East London on Friday as heavy flooding continued to create havoc in the area and Port Elizabeth.
A loaded AK47 rifle was recovered by police in the Alice Spar supermarket owned by Michael Stofile, brother of Eastern Cape premier Makhenkesi Stofile, East London police said on Monday.
Two girls aged between four and six were still missing in the Eastern Cape on Sunday night.
The Eastern Cape Tourism Board suffered a R3-million loss when seven of its white rhinoceros at the Tsolwana Game Reserve died recently.
Former Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) amnesty committee member Ntsikelelo Sandi said South Africans would do well to shy away from the idea of blanket amnesty as it would nullify the TRC’s reason and purpose.
The East London man who shot and killed his wife and handicapped son last week before turning the gun on himself was cremated at a private service on Wednesday.
United Democratic Movement leader Bantu Holomisa said he would attempt to secure the release of the man, who in 1990 with the backing of the apartheid regime, plotted to overthrow Transkei’s military government.
Eastern Cape MEC, Enoch Godongwana, was fined R8 000, or 200 days in jail on Tuesday for driving under the influence of alcohol.
The leadership of the SA Chamber of Business (Sacob) was confident on Thursday that two days of behind-closed-doors discussions in East London this week would help to refocus the embattled organisation.
POLICE believe that Satanism is linked to the discovery of the body of a man found floating in a swimming pool.
The men of the SS Mendi are coming home, albeit in a symbolic and spiritual way. A commemorative programme honouring the 600 African men who died with the sinking of the SS Mendi will be held this weekend just outside Libode in Pondoland.
The East London High Court has found the Ncamazana brothers guilty of murder, SABC news reported on Wednesday. Dumisani Ncamazana, a pardoned Apla cadre, was found guilty of the murder and armed robbery of Martin Whitaker.
In a surprise move, the state closed its case against the Ncamazana brothers in East London on Wednesday after calling only 14 of 50 scheduled witnesses.
Two oxen being loaded for export at East London’s harbour on Monday night gave officials the run around when they escaped.
Some of the children who were thought to have died of hunger recently in the Eastern Cape had in fact died of HIV/Aids, the provincial department of social development said on Thursday.
A missing former border rugby player facing charges of fraud may have staged his own ”death” in an attempt to avoid the trial after a number of people phoned his family and the police to say they spotted him in East London.
Several Eastern Cape mayors have been earning full-time mayors’ salaries ”illegally”, senior local government and housing officials said on Friday.
One of the political prisoners who was granted a controversial special presidential pardon in May has appeared in court on murder and armed robbery charges.
Elliot and Cala in the Eastern Cape were still cut off from the national power grid and road contact with the outside world on Sunday afternoon.