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Two people are missing after heavy rains that swept away a bakkie carrying six people in the Eastern Cape.

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The Easter Cape government is the number one offender for failing to pay suppliers within the 30-day invoice payment provision.

Residents have been forced to evacuate their homes in several communities across the two provinces.

The DAs Yusuf Cassim said that young learners at Lundini Primary School were forced to relieve themselves at a tree where the school governing body chairperson told him theyd recently discovered a black mamba.

Recent cases of bullying in schools have forced the department of education to re-strategise its plans for dealing with this recurring problem.

Former Democratic Alliance (DA) federal chairperson and Nelson Mandela Bay mayor Athol Trollip on Wednesday joined ActionSA, saying his longing for active change is the main reason he decided to join the party. ActionSA national chairperson Michael Beaumont revealed Trollip as a new addition to the party at a press conference at the Radisson Blu Hotel Port Elizabeth in Gqeberha.

In the Eastern Cape, workers are still trying to assess the full damage of the recent flash floods and the impact it will have on school reopening while in the Western Cape, Education MEC Debbie Schafer fears that the recent extension of the state of disaster will further affect pupils.

The Eastern Cape executive council has taken a decision to declare a provincial disaster.

South Africas National Institute For Communicable Diseases reported another 13,147 cases in the last 24 hours, up 200 per cent on the figure last Tuesday.