Andile Nyoka News Today

While some colleagues celebrated the life and career of the late Sergeant Mario Nel with song and dance, others struggled to hold back tears as touching tributes were shared at his memorial service on Thursday.

Crime will always exist but the way two policemen were killed recently in Nelson Mandela Bay shows it has once again reached horrific levels in our city.

Mbonomnyama is the third sergeant to be killed in the Eastern Cape in two weeks.

With a bandaged arm and a blank expression, a 26-year-old suspect stood in the dock of the Motherwell magistrate’s court on Friday, just down from the corridor where he allegedly shot and killed a policeman with the officer’s own service pistol two days earlier.

Nyoka was arrested on Wednesday, 3 May, minutes after the fatal shooting of Sergeant Mario Nel.

A man accused of stabbing a member of the public and shooting a court orderly dead at the Motherwell Magistrate's Court on Wednesday is fighting for his life in hospital after Anti-Gang Unit members shot him.