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The body of a Gauteng man was retrieved from the Bloukrans river gorge on Thursday afternoon after an extensive search-and-rescue effort.

Shocked by the way she was arrested and frog-marched to the court where she works, an Eastern Cape prosecutor, charged for allegedly failing to report a sex crime against a child, has hit back at her own colleagues.

With a judge not buying the story that the son of a convicted perlemoen poacher was able to buy a house in cash through the sale of a Mandela coin, Morne Blignault Jnr may have to kiss his family home goodbye.

In a shock twist to the sordid Paradise Beach rape case involving a father, his daughter and her half-brother, a prosecutor has been arrested for allegedly failing to report the suspected crimes.

The two men accused of the murder of an ADT security officer, who was killed in front of his mother before being robbed of his firearm, cellphone and company vehicle, are standing trial in the high court in Gqeberha.

Accused of hijacking a truck carrying copper cables worth R2m, and hiring a forklift to offload their loot, five men allegedly caught in the act appeared in court on Tuesday on charges including robbery, murder and unlawful possession of radio jamming devices.

Hot on the heels of the silver jubilee celebrations of one of Gqeberha’s most loved shows, Centrestage’s band frontman, Wayne Kallis, has returned to the stage after a two-year absence.

The Gqeberha man who allegedly murdered his mother and then set her flat on fire will have to wait another week before his court case can continue.

It has been a week marred by tragedy in the Sundays River Valley after five children drowned in separate incidents in as many days.

As National Education, Health and Allied Workers’ Union (Nehawu) Eastern Cape deputy chair Lizo Vakala was laid to rest on Friday, the woman alleged to be behind his brutal murder abandoned her bail application.