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Vote counting is expected to get under way on Thursday morning

Without reparations for racial injustice, there is no reason to talk about reconciliation, let alone under an ANC-DA marriage

The inaugural Sing Out Loud Festival put a spring in the step of Gqeberha audience members at the weekend as the talent of the Friendly City took centre stage.

SA National Defence Force (SANDF) soldiers were deployed to calm violent clashes between taxi operators and the police on Monday, which had caused more than 100 voting stations in the Eastern Cape to remain closed.

When a Gqeberha mother was informed her son had been stabbed during a robbery and left to bleed out in a parking lot, she lay on the bed next to his two-year-old daughter and sobbed inconsolably.

Glitches with malfunctioning voter management devices, voter rolls not in alphabetical order, long queues and stations opening late marred the first day of special voting in Nelson Mandela Bay.

From being a second-generation janitor at The Herald to becoming a renowned photojournalist, this is only part of the legacy left by the late Mbulelo Linda.

Three Gqeberha music legends were honoured at the Mandela Bay Jazz Legacy Festival at the weekend in recognition of the pivotal part they played in maintaining and expanding the history of jazz in SA and the world.

Nelson Mandela Bay ANC regional secretary Luyolo Nqakula plans to file a lawsuit seeking R500,000 in damages from a party member who ignored his demand for an apology over a video circulating on social media that Nqakula says implies he is corrupt and a thief.

Police had confiscated almost 50 firearms. Most were seized from guards and taxi owners at Nelson Mandela Academic Hospital in Mthatha where they were protecting Border Alliance Taxi Association (Bata) taxi bosses wounded when their convoy was ambushed between Nqanqarhu and Tsolo on Wednesday.The guards had previously been stationed at Maclear Hospital, but moved with the patients to Mthatha.