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More teachers back strike
By Beth Cooper
EASTERN Cape education could be brought to its knees with South Africa’s second-largest teacher union announcing yesterday it would join the nationwide public sector union strike next week....
Action to make State ‘play fair’ – unions
By Beth Cooper
STRIKE action is a desperate, last-ditch attempt to force government to “play fair”, teacher unions argued yesterday....
Student, 19, tells of double ordeal in new PE beachfront attack
By Christopher Bathembu and Helga van Staaden
IN the latest attack in the heart of Port Elizabeth’s beachfront, a 19year-old PE Technikon fashion and design student narrowly escaped being raped this week near Happy Valley....
‘Cash crisis’ as Jaimie, 3, swallows R2 piece
By Mawande Jack
A TINY girl who had just arrived in Port Elizabeth yesterday for a visit had to be rushed to hospital for an emergency operation after a R2 coin stuck in her throat – but had to endure a four-hour wait for a doctor to arrive to do the operation....
Court upholds Fidelity Fund application
Herald Reporter
THE Port Elizabeth High Court yesterday upheld an application for an exception order filed with the court by the Attorneys’ Fidelity Fund....
Bookkeeper on fraud charge
Herald Reporter
A PARTNER in Port Elizabeth company Hydrau Spares CC appeared briefly in the commercial crimes court yesterday on 84 counts of fraud involving more than R200 000....
Bhisho supplier on fraud charge
By Mvuyo Mati
East London – Another KwaZulu Natal businessman appeared in the special court in Mdantsane yesterday in connection with allegedly defrauding the Eastern Cape government....
Three up for fraud in court
Herald Reporter
FORMER Lexicon Attorneys employee Lindelwa Lupondwana and two co-accused appeared in a Port Elizabeth court yesterday on 58 counts of fraud involving more than R200 000....
R2,26m fraud appearance
A FORMER Volkswagen SA employee appeared in the Port Elizabeth commercial crimes court yesterday on charges of defrauding the company of an estimated R2,26-million.The case of Joan Waspe, 33, of Van Stadens, was postponed to September 28 to allow her to apply for legal aid after her attorney, Paul Roelofse snr, withdrew from the matter....
Intrepid journalist foils mugging on colleague
By Mawande Jack
A SIX-months-pregnant Algoa Sun reporter was mugged by brazen thugs outside Newspaper House yesterday....
Hope that EU will lift ban on importing horses from SA
Cape Town – Breeders are hopeful that a European Union meeting later this month will lift a ban on importing horses from South Africa....
Knysna celebrates Johncom office launch
Herald Reporter
THE who’s who of the Garden Route turned out at the launch of Johnnic Communications’s new Knysna office on Wednesday night....
Mhlahlo orders probe on attack against Ncula
By Jimmy Matyu
SAFETY and Security MEC Thobile Mhlahlo has ordered an investigation into claims that the brother of SA rugby boss Mveleli Ncula was beaten up by police earlier this week....
Balfour for St Albans launch
Herald Reporter
CORRECTIONAL Services Minister Ngconde Balfour will today launch a moral regeneration movement at St Albans Prison....
Growth plan gets four new enterprise funds
By Patrick Cull Political Correspondent
PREMIER Nosimo Balindlela announced a host of flagship programmes for the Provincial Growth and Development Plan yesterday, including the launch of four new funds to spur enterprise development....
‘Blueprint for development’
By Patrick Cull
EASTERN Cape Premier Nosimo Balindlela launched the multi-billion-rand Provincial Growth and Development Plan yesterday that she said would “serve as our blueprint for growth and development over the next 10 years”....
1 300 ostriches to die in anti-bird flu measure
By Eddie Botha
East London – The extermination of 1 300 ostriches, which have been raised as part of an Eastern Cape black economic empowerment farming venture, started yesterday after the birds tested positive for bird flu. All the birds are in Salem, near Grahamstown....
Pharmacies battle to survive new law
By Steve Matthewson
EASTERN Cape pharmacists have begun charging for administration, deliveries and other previously free services in a bid to make up revenue they have lost due to new drugs legislation....
Drama as alleged prostitute killer nabbed at court
ALLEGED prostitute killer Llewellen van Wyk was rearrested in dramatic style at the Port Elizabeth magistrate’s court yesterday for allegedly contravening his bail conditions on two separate occasions....
Judges’ concern over PE metro rape scourge
Herald Reporter
SIX life sentences in three days for murder and rape is indicative of the high prevalence of serious crimes which continue to besiege the Nelson Mandela metro, says High Court Judge Jean Nepgen....
Lab-grown cells repair schoolgirl’s injured knee
Johannesburg – In what has been described as a first for South Africa, a Potchefstroom orthopaedic surgeon last night operated on a miner’s daughter to repair her injured knee using cells which had been “grown” in a laboratory from her damaged cartilage....
Armed response group nabs suspected PE roof burglars
By Michael Roux Van Zyl
FOUR suspects have been arrested in Charlo by Atlas Armed Response personnel after a spate of burglaries which include goods valued at R15 000 stolen from three houses....
Sarfu CEO in talks with EP rugby
SOUTH African rugby boss Brian van Rooyen will be invited to attend next week’s executive meeting of the Eastern Province Rugby Football Union....
Bail hearing in Chanelle drowning case
ALLEGATIONS of police brutality and racist remarks were made yesterday in the Port Elizabeth magistrate’s court where a 32-year-old father is applying for bail for the murder of Chanelle Wilken....
Mother’s plea to VWSA over son’s death
By Tabelo Timse
THE heart-broken mother of a Volkswagen SA contract worker who was killed in an accident at the company’s Uitenhage plant on Wednesday is still in the dark about her son’s death. ...
Two in court on weapons charges
By Jenni Evans and Graeme Hosken
Johannesburg – TWO more men have been arrested in an international probe into weapons of mass destruction and appeared in court yesterday....
Wife survives four shots in family attack
By Tabelo Timse
AN argument between an estranged married couple ended in tragedy when the husband shot his wife four times and then turned the gun on himself....
Bin Laden’s hideout still a mystery
As the world marks the third anniversary of the September 11 terror attacks tomorrow, the trail of prime suspect Osama bin Laden has grown cold, reports Sapa-AFP in Islamabad....
Three burnt to death in horror collision in Stanford Road
THREE people burnt to death in a horrific early morning accident in Stanford Road near Helenvale yesterday when they were trapped inside a taxi....
Liquor board warning to applicants
By Sicelo Fayo, Business Editor
FROM Monday, unlicensed liquor traders in the Eastern Cape – formal or informal – will have to apply for a trading licence, failing which they will have to face the wrath of the law, Eastern Cape Liquor Board chairman Naledi Burwana-Busiwe said yesterday....
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