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It took nearly two years of investigating the misappropriation of millions of rand meant for the Integrated Public Transport System (IPTS) before police could execute search warrants at companies implicated in the alleged fraudulent activities.

A KwaZulu-Natal woman has been found guilty of money laundering in the Gqeberha commercial crimes court after admitting she stole R184,000 meant for the purchase of 20 air conditioners.

Five people accused of the double murder of two elderly residents at a retirement village in Sunridge Park are expected to plead to numerous charges against them on Wednesday.

After surviving 11 car accidentstwo strokes, a lung blockage and nine kidney stones, doctors warned Shaheen Soomar that if he continued with his dream of summiting Mount Kilimanjaro he would be signing his own death certificate.

Two Gqeberha company bosses are expected to appear in the city’s magistrate’s court on Friday after they allegedly deleted data from an employee’s cellphone without her permission.

After surviving 11 car accidentstwo strokes, a lung blockage and nine kidney stones, doctors warned Shaheen Soomar that if he continued with his dream of summiting Mount Kilimanjaro he would be signing his own death certificate.

Continued protests along the Addo road by disgruntled residents of the Nomakanjane settlement near Motherwell have led to the police closing the road until the situation is stabilised.

The multimillion-rand fraud and money laundering trial involving the metro’s crippled Integrated Public Transport System (IPTS) was hampered by yet another delay on Wednesday.

A warrant of arrest was issued for Stephanus “Fanie” de Lange, the man at the centre of one of the city’s most sensational murder trials more than two decades ago, after he was a no-show at his R4.5m fraud case on Wednesday.

In an act of defiance on Tuesday, an allegedly murderous caregiver blew a kiss from the dock of the Gqeberha high court to the grieving family and friends of two elderly women found gagged and tied up in their retirement village.