Walmer Location News Today

Nelson Mandela Bay district commissioner Major-General Vuyisile Ncata has commended the men and women in blue for their outstanding efforts over the past week, with several suspects arrested and firearms confiscated.

A 17-year-old was spared the trauma of having to relive her horrific ordeal by testifying in court after the two men who abducted, robbed and raped her pleaded guilty on Monday.

A Lorraine businessman, thanks to his quirky content creation, is smiling all the way to TikTok celebrity status on the heels of a growing international following.

A 42-year-old man who raped his infant son has been sentenced to an effective 13 years in prison after a judge found the attack had not been premeditated and was fuelled by alcohol, and that the baby had suffered no physical injury. The sentence, handed down in the Gqeberha high court on Friday, caused some consternation in the public gallery, with several onlookers saying they believed it was too light.

This submission was made by the defence during argument in mitigation of sentence in the Gqeberha high court on Thursday.

A Gqeberha man was sentenced on Friday to life imprisonment for shooting his wife in the head, after she refused to return to their Booysen Park home. The prescribed minimum sentence of life for premeditated murder was the only suitable sentence, Gqeberha high court judge Vuyokazi Noncembu said.

A former Gqeberha security guard has admitted to murdering his estranged wife, saying he shot her in a fit of blind rage.

As part of the city’s drought intervention efforts, the Nelson Mandela Bay municipality is developing the groundwater system.

The 65-year-old woman's car was found abandoned in Gqeberha and evidence collected at the scene suggested there could be foul play.

The body of a 65-year-old woman was found in a flat that caught fire in Park Drive on Tuesday morning, while a 35-year-old mother and her baby died in a shack fire in Walmer on Monday night.