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JUST hours after engaging with a senior Jeffreys Bay police officer over domestic violence on Wednesday, a mother of six was gunned down by her enraged husband while clutching her five-month-old baby.
An ANC councillor who attended last week's meeting, but cannot be named for fear of reprisals, said: "Let's be honest, the project has collapsed."
LEGAL teams for South African paralympic star Oscar Pistorius and his slain girlfriend's family are discussing an out-of-court financial settlement over her murder, a lawyer said yesterday.
HOW do you motivate disadvantaged youth to have a positive outlook on the future? Social entrepreneur Rob Taylor, 58, has one solution: treat them with respect and reconnect them with the environment in a values-driven manner.
THE shooting of a nine- year-old girl caught in the crossfire of gang violence while innocently playing in the garden of a house on Wednesday night has resulted in northern areas residents threatening to turn to mob justice if the situation is not brought under control soon.
OVERCROWDED Nelson Mandela Bay schools that are bursting at the seams could soon benefit from R60- million set aside by the provincial Basic Education Department to tackle the overflow.
AN animal rights group has applied to the government to adopt the bronze bunny secretly sculpted inside the ear of a statue of Nelson Mandela.
AN animal rights group has applied to the government to adopt the bronze bunny secretly sculpted inside the ear of a statue of Nelson Mandela.
THREE months ago, their hopes of attending the university of their dreams were dashed when they were rejected for being completely blind.
GLAMOROUS suburban mother- of-three Sharmilla van Heerden cut a lonely figure in the dock yesterday when she appeared in the Port Elizabeth's Magistrate's Court in connection with illegally exporting more than 95 tons of shark and octopus, worth millions, to Australia.
MORE than 20 raccoons had to travel nearly 10000km to Plettenberg Bay to have a taste of freedom after living in appalling conditions as illegal pets in tiny cages in Belgium for most of their lives.
AN ANC veterans' leader warned yesterday against the party making unrealistic promises in its election manifesto.
A GROUP of Kirkwood pupils protested at their school yesterday, saying their poor matric pass rate was the result of a lack of leadership.
A PORT Elizabeth matriculant who achieved eight distinctions last year is jetting off to Australia where she has been accepted to study at the Hillsong International Leadership College, an affiliate of the Pentecostal megachurch, Hillsong Church.
VICTORIA Girls' High School pupil Danielle Walker has recently returned home from an FSA Youth Exchange programme overseas after being selected as top candidate for the Eastern Cape.
TWO outstanding Nelson Mandela Bay pupils pursuing maritime studies in Cape Town can do so proudly wearing uniforms sponsored by the Coega Development Corporation (CDC).
POLICE fired rubber bullets to disperse angry residents of Uitenhage's western suburbs yesterday after they rampaged through streets on the outskirts of the central business district to demand land from the Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality.
LARGE swathes of the Eastern and southern Cape coastline have been invaded by huge patches of potentially highly toxic red tide and people are being warned not to eat shellfish.
SABC radio journalist Mzukisi Solani was not going to let a break-in at a house he owns in Addo ruin his weekend.
ONCE known for his extravagant lifestyle, alleged drug dealer Livingstone Makasholo has become so poor that he no longer has funds to cover legal expenses.
AFTER almost two years of ongoing negotiations with the Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality about land for housing development in Walmer township, the community were overjoyed yesterday as they moved a step closer to receiving their RDP houses.
THE family of an elderly Port Elizabeth woman who nearly lost her life when her car crashed into the back of a BMW that had stopped suddenly at the controversial rubber speed bumps in Walmer Boulevard on Sunday wants the Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality to have them removed before they claim a life.
A LONG-TERM undercover investigation paid off for Port Elizabeth police yesterday when they raided a sophisticated hydroponics dagga-cultivating operation in a quaint 1820 Settler cottage in Central.
POLITICIANS from Bhisho have stepped in to try and resolve an admissions crisis in Port Elizabeth's northern areas where scores of children were turned away from the few schools there, all of them too full to cope with the influx.
NELSON Mandela Bay's beleaguered top-class Newton Park swimming pool facility is set to remain closed until autumn following a delayed municipal supply chain management process and a looming legal battle over repairs.
AFTER one man became the first person in South Africa to be convicted of the illegal pillaging of shipwrecks when he pleaded guilty to the charges last week, his two co-accused were acquitted.
THE DA has fielded business consultant and former banker Rob Wylde as its candidate to contest the Nelson Mandela Bay Ward 1 by-election in April.
POLICE and extra security were called in to monitor the wedding of a controversial Port Elizabeth couple at the weekend after a petrol bomb was set off outside the groom's house hours before the couple tied the knot.
A SHORTAGE of science teachers in the Eastern Cape has forced one rural school to dump the subject and divert pupils to study economics, despite having a state-of-the-art laboratory donated to boost maths and science at the school.
THREE Eastern Cape funeral homes being investigated by the Financial Services Board (FSB) for illegally selling policies could face a fine or have their licences suspended if found guilty.
FIVE Americans are on a journey of a lifetime to South Africa that will see them pass through the Eastern Cape.
TWO men on a walk of faith arrived in Port Elizabeth yesterday.
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