SAPS Eastern Cape are investigating two separate and unrelated double murders that occurred over the weekend.
Police appeal for information after two men were found dead and a third seriously assaulted near the R334 in the Eastern Cape on Saturday.
A 72-hour operation has led to the arrest of two suspects and fatal shooting of three others connected to the murder of two police officers.
Two police officers were brutally killed in the early hours of Friday, 18 September at Ziphunzana location in Libode, near Mthatha, sparking a manhunt.
A coordinated police operation in Makhanda and Joza has led to two arrests and the seizure of illicit drugs worth nearly R50,000, SAPS has confirmed.
A 16-year-old learner died after a fellow pupil stabbed him with an okapi knife at a high school in Dimbaza, just outside Qonce, on Tuesday, 15 September.
Two suspects already arrested for councillor Sicelo Mleve’s murder have been linked to a separate attempted murder of a 35-year-old woman in Missionvale.
Two women appeared in the Gqeberha Specialised Commercial Crimes Court on R2 000 bail after allegedly defrauding the Department of Labour of over R1 million.
Lufunolwethu Nyodi and Ahlumile Stofile appear in court facing charges linked to the murder of ANC Ward 27 councillor Sicelo Mleve.
Officials at Leeuwkop Maximum Correctional Centre intercepted 140 Mandrax tablets, 32g crystal methamphetamine and 216g cannabis hidden inside a radio.