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Protesters gathered outside the Motherwell Magistrate’s Court on Wednesday, when a man who handed himself over to the police after a six-year-old boy was strangled did an about-turn on an earlier decision to remain behind bars.

Three men arrested at the weekend after a brazen crime spree across Nelson Mandela Bay appeared briefly in the city’s magistrate’s court on Tuesday

A well-known Gqeberha attorney could walk away with a R3m payout after a painful fall at court left him with a debilitating lifelong injury.

As a six-year-old Kwazakhele girl recovers in hospital after allegedly being raped by a general worker at her Salt Lake school, angry parents are demanding answers about their children’s safety.

Convicted serial child rapist Siyabulela Qunta will spend the remainder of his life behind bars after the Gqeberha high court handed him five life sentences on Wednesday.

A bitter dispute over alleged shoddy construction work at an Eastern Cape hospital has resulted in the Coega Development Corporation (CDC) being ordered to fork out more than R10m to a contractor.

A mere two hours after the bodies of two elderly women were found bound and gagged in their rooms at a retirement village in Sunridge Park, two cellphones stolen during the robbery were sold for R1,900.

He maintained his innocence throughout his trial but after 41 witnesses were called to testify and DNA evidence was submitted, serial child rapist Siyabulela Qunta did an about-turn under cross-examination by the state and pleaded guilty.

A witness in the hit murder trial involving a woman and her suspected lover has told the court she was too afraid to take the stand last week after she learnt that another state witness had been killed.

A seven-year-old boy who was allegedly raped by a Soweto-on-Sea man temporarily refused to be cross-examined in the Gqeberha high court on Monday morning as he did not feel comfortable.