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Eastern Cape Department of Health MEC, Ntandokazi Capa, has learnt with shock the fatal shooting of a professional nurse by her EMS Client Information Officer boyfriend in eMaxesibeni, on Sunday, August 4.

The High Court of South Africa, in Mthatha, has sentenced Mbongeni Sandile (31) and Ayanda Wahlinzwa (27) to life imprisonment for the brutal murder of Monwabisi Mkhondweni (60), last week.

The Eastern Cape has the most dangerous stretches of road in the country, with the N2 between Mthatha and Dutywa recorded as the second-deadliest route in South Africa.

THAMSANQA Cetyiwe (35) was last week sentenced by the East London Regional Court to 15 years in prison for breaking into a cellphone tower.

The South African Police Management has issued a warning to members of the public to be vigilant against scammers who demand money in exchange for being offered a job as a police trainee.

The mayor of King Sabatha Dalindyebo (KSD) Local Municipality, Councillor Nyaniso Nelani, said they had launched the system for parking meters in the Central Business District (CBD) of Mthatha last week.

The area manager of Pep Stores, Thobile Ndabeni, said they have adopted Zwelinzima Primary School in Mthatha.

Learners from Long-Hope Primary Farm School in Elliot are sitting at home after their school was burnt to ashes by an unknown person recently.

The secretary of the Brotherhood Social Club, Yanga Jomo Makhongwana, said they had celebrated Nelson Mandela Month by hosting a soup kitchen on Owen Street in Mthatha, with the aim of showing love to car guards and car washers.

EIGHT girls’ teams booked their spot in the quarter-finals of the FNB Football Festival Tournament u/15. Sixteen schools participated in the elimination stages of this tournament last Friday, and the winners progressed to the quarter-finals.