Amanda Timms News Today

Some community members are outraged at the way they say the East London SPCA euthanised three emaciated, tick-infested and severely injured horses on a smallholding. The Dispatch has seen the SPCA’s photographs of the emaciated horses that showed shocking tick infestation and gaping wounds, some of which were crawling with large white maggots.

A body believed to be that of a missing six-year-old Mdantsane NU13 girl was found on Thursday night after a frantic search by community members, who allegedly bludgeoned to death a suspect linked to the gruesome murder.

Buffalo City tops the Eastern Cape list for the highest number of kidnappings, according to the latest crime stats for April to June.

Residents in the closely-knit suburb of Bonnie Doon in East London woke on Sunday to the terrifying sound of shots being fired.When it was over a man lay in a pool of blood in the street.

Traffic came to a standstill on the N6 near Ducats on Wednesday morning after a group of protesters blockaded the road with burning tires and rocks in protest over power outage.

Buffalo City Metro’s jobs promise for 100 ex-convicts and recovering addicts has not yet kicked off, with the city saying on Monday that plans were being finalised to start the process.

An explosion of crime in Buffalo City has residents living in fear as petty crimes, break-ins, robberies, violent crimes, home invasions and now kidnappings are becoming more and more common, even in supposedly safe suburban areas. Red Alert’s Brett Harvey said Beacon Bay, Nahoon, Bonnie Doon and the city centre had all experienced marked increases in break-ins in recent weeks.

Two men stormed into the Absa Bank at Vincent Park in East London on Thursday and robbed a customer of an undisclosed amount of money.

A quiet ransom exchange in the seclusion of East London's Nahoon Dam turned into a violent shootout as East London police foiled a hostage situation on Tuesday morning. One kidnapper was shot dead and a police officer was shot and injured on the scene. East London police tactical response units, including the Mdantsane flying squad and a team of hostage negotiators, responded when the family of a kidnapping victim was given instructions to make a ransom drop at an open field near Nahoon Da.....

Explosions and gunshots shattered the peace in East London's West Bank on Monday night as bandits tried to blow up the locks to get into an armoured cash-in-transit vehicle at Fidelity's premises.