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Two elderly women in shock after robbery
Picture: Gareth Wilson Police are on the scene where two elderly women were robbed inside their Rowallan Park home in Port Elizabeth this afternoon. Both women were in shock and taken to hospital. More...
View ArticleSwimmer dies in his Fernglen pool
AN elderly Port Elizabeth man was found partially submerged in his pool at his Glenelg Road, Fernglen, home yesterday morning. Trevor Kitson, 67, who swam at about 5am every day, was found in the water...
View ArticleMarchers demand banks change
HUNDREDS of protesters marched down Cape Road in Port Elizabeth yesterday calling for changes in interest rates and in the roles and responsibilities of banks. SA Communist Party (SACP) second deputy...
View ArticleMan, 21, victim in latest gang murder
MAN was killed yesterday in the latest gang-related shooting in Port Elizabeth. The shooting took place at the corner of Brutus and Beetlestone roads in Gelvandale at about 3.30pm. Reagan Welcome, 21,...
View ArticleWoman shot in front of fellow worshippers at PE church
A 51-year-old woman was shot in front of her fellow congregants at the Arise and Shine Christian Church in New Brighton in Port Elizabeth on Thursday night. Police spokesperson Mncedi Mbombo said the...
View ArticleCouncillors owe fortune in phone bills
Most-indebted, among 86 in arrears, faces a whopping R19 000 deduction EIGHTY-SIX Nelson Mandela Bay councillors owe the municipality more than half a million rand in outstanding cellphone bills racked...
View ArticlePerlemoen worth over R2-million confiscated near Graaff-Reinet
A 33-year-old man transporting almost a ton of perlemoen worth about R2.1million to Johannesburg was arrested near Graaff-Reinet in the Eastern Cape this week. Brigadier Marinda Mills said the...
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Pilot dies in PE plane crash
One person was killed when a light Piper aircraft crashed at Port Elizabeth Airport on Saturday afternoon. Picture supplied. One person was killed when a light aircraft crashed at the Port Elizabeth...
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Pilot cheats death as plane catches fire
Picture: Gareth Wilson/The Herald ‘ I could not see anything due to the smoke. I jumped out. I just ran. Then I sat and watched it burn’ AFTER the engine of his light aircraft caught fire and the...
View ArticleWatson overseas to check on delays in elusive sponsorship
EP RUGBY president Cheeky Watson left for overseas yesterday to meet with sponsors over delays in what has been described as the biggest sponsorship in the history of South African rugby. The...
View ArticleI don’t know anything, ‘Boef’ tells Seaview robbery trial
SUSPECTED gangster Rodwell “Boef” Peters said yesterday he had not seen anything, let alone known that his alleged accomplices were robbing a Seaview home, despite being found by police cowering in a...
View ArticleNMMU probes ‘irregular bonuses’
Staff split on department head after suspicious payments made NELSON Mandela Metropolitan University (NMMU) is investigating claims that a senior staff member misappropriated funds and dished out...
View ArticleGovernment looks at options to fund varsity shortfall
FUNDS especially earmarked to address decades of apartheid discriminatory underfunding of historically black universities are probably going to be used to pay for the financial shortfall after student...
View ArticleCouncillor accused of corruption
Nombiba pocketed R20 000 of donation, members of community project claim ALLEGATIONS of corruption and the abuse of Nelson Mandela Bay’s Ward 20 discretionary fund have been levelled against ANC...
View ArticlePossible meteorite impact site investigated in EC
A disaster management team from the Kouga municipality in the Eastern Cape has been sent to the Baviaans area to inspect what is believed to be the impact site of a meteorite. According to farmers in...
View ArticleZuma refers questions about his jet to defence dept
The presidency says the defence department will answer questions about the new VIP jet which is being procured for President Jacob Zuma, possibly at a cost of around R4bn. “The presidency has requested...
View ArticleScared foreigners reopen shops
Only a few risk return to Grahamstown township in weeks since xenophobic looting A HANDFUL of the foreign shopkeepers who were driven out of Grahamstown by xenophobic looters have reopened their...
View ArticleSA warned of rise in cyber-crime
Perpetrators stalk victims, hack e-mail accounts and steal millions CRAFTY cyber-criminals are stalking more and more South Africans online, learning their every move via their e-mail accounts, and...
View ArticleANC prepares candidate list
Party in East Cape aims to complete process by month end THE ANC in the Eastern Cape is hoping to have its list of candidates for next year’s municipal elections ready by the end of the month....
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Officials held hostage as pledge broken
FOOD PROTEST: Vastrap residents demonstrate outside the Booysen Park hall in which officials were held hostage Picture: FREDLIN ADRIAAN - TWO SA Social Security Agency (Sassa) officials were locked...
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