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Spring is in full swing and the Nelson Mandela Bay municipality is driving the message home as part of its Tourism Month activities.

A murder investigation is under way after the body of a man was discovered in the road at Van Stadens Pass, between Gqeberha and Humansdorp on Wednesday afternoon.

ENIGMATIC businessman Kobus Smit, who moved to the Eastern Cape in the mid-1990s from the Northern Cape, had previous dealings with former Port Elizabeth mayor Nceba Faku before being granted the right to lease and renovate the Van Stadens Resort in 2004.

In the latest news in South Africa on Saturday, 1 October 2022,a motion of no confidence was passed on Friday against Mpho Phalatse.

A well-coordinated multi-disciplinary operation conducted yesterday, 29 September 2022 in Gqeberha led police to venture into the deep seas. At about 12:00, SAPS Border Policing, the Uitenhage K9 unit, and the Department of Forestry, Fisheries, and Environmental Affairs were conducting inspections on fishing vessels in the sea near Van Stadens. As they embarked on a

The trawler was over capacity by six people. Police also found 479 baggies of dagga aboard the fishing vessel on Thursday.

Two people were killed in separate accidents in Gqeberha between Saturday night and during the early hours of Sunday.

With 40% of Nelson Mandela Bay set to hit Day Zero in less than two weeks, the ANC-led coalition government has stood by and done nothing while millions of litres of fresh water have been running into the sea from the Upper and Lower Van Stadens Dams. The Lower Van Stadens Dam normally has two pumps that transfer the water to the Linton Water Treatment Works (WTW) in Port Elizabeth.  Both pumps have been defective for more than 10 years.

The Gamtoos Irrigation Board says the more funding IT gets, the more it can expand its efforts to remove alien invasive vegetation in the catchment of Nelson Mandela Bay’s parched western dams and thereby free up more water.

Guns, drugs and even stolen goats have been recovered in recent months thanks to state-of-the-art camera systems keeping a close eye on rural roads.