THE former girlfriend of the man accused of the robbery and murder of Nelson Mandela Bay traffic officer Neal Domingo has told the Port Elizabeth High Court he was with her at the time of the incident.

Two girls who fell victim to convicted sex offender Cezanne Visser will fight to ensure she is not granted correctional supervision, The Star reported on Wednesday (15/08/2012).

The world’s no. 3 platinum producer Lonmin shut down its South African operations on Tuesday (14/08/2012) and its shares tumbled after violence caused by a feud between rival unions killed nine people at its main mine.

A man died and a truck was torched during protests in Khayelitsha, Cape Town, Western Cape police said on Tuesday (14/08/2012).

FOUR suspects linked to the farm attack in which Jansenveille farmer Owen Charles, 70, was stabbed to death and his wife, Janet, was severely wounded have been arrested in Knysna.

AN elderly Jansenville farmer was viciously stabbed to death and his wife beaten unconscious by a gang of robbers on their farm, Armadale, 17km from the town.

THE power struggles in Nelson Mandela Bay burst to the fore yesterday when mayor Zanoxolo Wayile, speaker Maria Hermans and chief whip Feziwe Sibeko were locked inside the ANC regional headquarters by regional leaders and ordered to resign with immediate effect.

POLICE, apparently with no court order and acting on their own accord, barred the family and supporters of a murdered Muslim businessman from the Gauteng courtroom their son’s alleged killers were appearing in yesterday.

MANDLA Mandela has confirmed he is not the legitimate father of 11-month-old Qheya, who was meant to be the heir of the Royal House of Mandela.

A PORT Elizabeth road that has already cost about R18-million is yet to be finished - with the Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality not honouring the agreement it had with the Port Elizabeth Land Restitution and Housing Association (Pelrha).

EASTERN Cape premier Noxolo Kiviet has stood by her decision to urge government departments to buy tables at a lavish East London fashion show.

A JOINT operation by Fort Beaufort police officials led to the arrest of 14 suspects allegedly linked to a crime syndicate involved in a cash-in-transit heist in the town yesterday.

THE ANC does not need party members who are “caught with their hands in the till”. Instead, Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe said yesterday, members should strive to emulate the selflessness of former president Nelson Mandela.

PORT Elizabeth needs only a further 28mm of rain within the next 18 days for 2012 to be officially declared the wettest winter on record.

POLICE and NSRI divers continued to search the ocean and Keurbooms River mouth in Plettenberg Bay yesterday for four fishermen still missing after their small boat sank last Thursday night.

TWO sports-loving Eastern Cape women are making a name for themselves in a new Johannesburg-based visual radio station that focuses on sports.

A DAMAGING explosion at the Mount Road substation at the weekend saw parts of Nelson Mandela Bay plunged into darkness, with Perridgevale being the last to be reconnected late yesterday afternoon.

AREAS of Nelson Mandela Bay which were still without water after two major supply pipes to the city broke more than a week ago will have their supply restored today (13/08/2012) or tomorrow.

THE country’s female judges have voiced their dissatisfaction about the ANC Women’s League’s proposal to decriminalise prostitution in South Africa.

Protesters threw petrol bombs at police officers near Cape Town International Airport on Friday morning (10/08/2012), the city’s disaster risk management centre said.

The body of an 8-year-old boy was found on Friday (10/08/2012) morning after a fishing boat disappeared in Plettenberg Bay, in the Western Cape, the National Sea Rescue Institute (NSRI) said.

THE office of the Eastern Cape premier has come under fire for putting pressure on government departments to buy tables at a swanky East London fashion show. In a formal letter sent to MECs, Noxolo Kiviet’s office appeals to her executive council to each fork out R10000 for a table at the event.

A PORT Elizabeth toddler died tragically after she fell into a bucket of water and drowned while trying to reach for her toy.

SETTLING back into quiet village life has been challenging for Banyana Banyana star, Amanda Sister, who recently returned home from the hustle and bustle of the world’s biggest sporting event.

ANSER Mahmood can’t talk about the vicious beating that led to his best friend’s death without breaking into tears. It is a murder a former cabinet minister has described as “the stench of Islamophobia”.

SOUTH African women should make use of constitutional and other mechanisms which exist to address issues of unemployment, domestic and sexual violence, and poverty, the public protector, Advocate Thuli Madonsela, said yesterday.

PRIVATE companies without women as directors and executive managers will soon face penalties, President Jacob Zuma said on Women’s Day

A CHANCE meeting between a cash-strapped Russian-born waiter and an elderly Dutch tourist in a Port Alfred restaurant four years ago has changed both men’s lives forever.

THE Eastern Cape’s meter taxi industry is under siege from scores of new pirate operators who, it is claimed, are taking advantage of the authorities’ failure to check on official licences and operating cards.

ALMOST a decade ago a young plattelandse meisie named Anna crept into the hearts of readers across South Africa.

Six men were arrested in Uitenhage for theft when they tried to sell 227kg of scrap metal, Eastern Cape police said on Friday (10/08/2012).

WE HAVE reached a development T-junction. We can either accept, without thinking, the proposed R80-billion oil refinery, Project Mthombo, without an environmental impact assessment having been done - never mind Durban South and the pollution there, never mind scrutinising that extraordinary 18500 permanent jobs’ promise by our premier.

CHRIS Hani District Municipality is set to do what Treasure the Karoo Action Group is hoping the national government will still decide is necessary. The step? To appoint a team of experts to investigate fracking, the controversial drilling method Shell wants to use to explore for and extract gas from shale beds deep beneath the Karoo

ABOUT a hundred eager young swimmers from Port Elizabeth’s northern and township areas will miss out on what is considered to be the highlight event of their sporting year.

Pupils and parents flocked to Newspaper House to snap up The Herald Matric Results supplement. Now we make available to you pdfs of the supplement pages.