Attempt to steal ATM fails
NELSON Mandela Bay police are on the hunt for four men who tried to make off with an ATM at the FNB building in Newton Park at the weekend. They tried to remove the ATM from the wall using a cutting...
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Fun for all ages at Splash Festival
Pictures: Ivor Markman WITH the weather playing ball over the Easter weekend, thousands of people packed the Port Elizabeth beachfront for the annual Splash Festival. While wet weather only threatened...
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Nkandla has cost the ANC, says Mthembu
JACKSON MTHEMBU The ANC caucus has lost “face” over its handling of the Nkandla saga, says incoming parliamentary chief whip Jackson Mthembu. “We lost face and we cannot afford to lose face again,” he...
View ArticleWatch: Some passengers freed from hijacked EgyptAir plane
An Egyptair domestic flight from Alexandria to Cairo was hijacked on Tuesday and landed in Cyprus, Egyptian officials said. The pilot of the plane was threatened by a passenger strapped with...
View ArticleSA wins fight for cheaper HIV treatment
The Department of Health has, with the help of an NGO, forced a drug company to relax its patent on an important ARV drug. Last year Abbvie, the HIV division of pharmaceutical company Abbot, could not...
View ArticleParent’s worst nightmare as son, 6, abducted, from front garden
A PORT Elizabeth mother described every parent’s worst nightmare yesterday when she told how her son was abducted from their home on Sunday. Luckily the ordeal ended quickly with her son being found...
View ArticleHijacker releases all but about a dozen people aboard EgyptAir jet
A man thought to be strapped with explosives hijacked an Egyptian aircraft on a flight between Alexandria and Cairo on Tuesday‚ and forced it to land in Cyprus‚ Egyptian officials said. After the...
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Puzzle of ANCYL boss and R5.4m home loan
Collen Maine. Picture: SIMPHIWE NKWALI Mystery surrounds a multimillion-rand Bank of India bond given to ANC Youth League president Collen Maine last year to buy a mansion in a posh Pretoria East...
View ArticleTwo cops still behind bars for corruption
Two Thohoyandou police station investigating officers who were arrested on Wednesday (23/03/2016) for corruption and defeating the ends of justice are still behind bars. They were remanded in custody...
View ArticleBlasting on R72 between Port Alfred and Fish River
The South African National Roads Agency Ltd (Sanral) today notified road users of blasting scheduled to take place at the Shaw Park quarry on Thursday March 31, from 3:30pm onward. “The road will be...
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Former EL mayor guilty of credit card fraud
Former Buffalo City Metro mayor Zukisa Faku has been found guilty on nine counts of fraud and theft‚ relating to her abuse of her official BCM credit card for personal purchases while on business...
View ArticleThree die, six injured on PE road
Three people, two of them nine-year-old children, died when the bakkie they were travelling in overturned on the R75 in Port Elizabeth today. According to emergency service personnel on the scene the...
View ArticleMalema gets his BA degree
Economic Freedom Fighters leader Julius Malema is set to graduate with a Bachelors of Arts degree in Communications and African Studies from the University of South Africa. On Tuesday the party said...
View ArticlePlea for harsh laws against child porn
INTERNATIONAL anti-child pornography heavyweights have joined Plettenberg Bay’s plea for harsher sentences for paedophiles. This while residents marched through the town’s business centre on Saturday...
View ArticleKilling suspect beaten to death
A WOMAN was stabbed to death and the alleged perpetrator killed in a suspected case of mob justice at a Nelson Mandela Bay informal settlement at the weekend. Three other people were injured in the...
View ArticleTensions rise in DA over candidates
TENSIONS are mounting in the DA as the party starts finalising its candidate lists, and some party members realise they may lose their jobs and incomes as town and metro councillors. The influence of...
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Brothel found operating in posh suburb
EMOTIONAL INTERVIEW: Constable Nelisa Nconco, from Humewood, speaks to one of the tenants.Pictures: EUGENE COETZEE PE businesswoman who rents rooms out faces charges over sex workers in Summerstrand A...
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End of the line for Karoo lion
BAD BOY: Sylvester the lion explores a holding boma following his capture on a Karoo farm last year. This week, he escaped again Sylvester to be put down after second escape SYLVESTER the Karoo lion’s...
View ArticleSummerstrand water supply to be shut down
The water supply to areas bound by Strandfontein Road, Admiralty and Gomery Road will be shut down today to allow for a new connection, according to the Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality. Municipal...
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Missing woman contacts aunt
Sandisiwe Busi A PORT Elizabeth woman who went missing after an alleged robbery in St George’s Strand last week was found at a house in Motherwell late yesterday afternoon . Sandisiwe Busi, 24, was...
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