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Chilling voice recordings sent to the mother of a Salt Lake woman moments before she was allegedly killed by her husband raised alarms bells, prompting Anneline Bruintjies’ family to spring into action.

The case against Jeffreys Bay lawyer Dieter Brandstetter, who faces charges including culpable homicide, has been transferred to the regional court for trial.

Almost two weeks after the daughter of an elderly Jeffreys Bay man found him beaten to within an inch of his life, his alleged assailants have abandoned their bids for bail.

A Gqeberha transport company owner appeared in the city’s commercial crime court on Wednesday where he faces 20 counts of tax fraud amounting to about R13m.

Keeping his cards close to his chest save to say he had acted in self-defence, a murder-accused Nelson Mandela University (NMU) student was granted bail of R2,000 in the Gqeberha magistrate’s court on Wednesday.

The case against Gqeberha attorney Louis Erasmus has been postponed again for him to appoint new legal representation.

Eight months after a Gqeberha family lost their son in a weekend of suspected gang violence, they suffered a second blow, losing all their worldly possessions in a house fire on Tuesday morning.

A Nelson Mandela University student who allegedly killed a fellow student at the weekend appeared briefly in the Gqeberha magistrate’s court on Tuesday in connection with a charge of murder.

Hailing the conviction of the man who murdered an e-hailing driver as a victory for the industry, e-hailers wearing T-shirts sporting Garrison Snayers’ face stood in unison with his grieving family.

Heads of argument in a trial-within-a-trial to determine the admissibility of an alleged confession by one of the people accused of murdering two elderly women in a retirement village have been submitted to the Gqeberha high court.