Two Eastern Cape police officers suspected of being involved in a fatal shooting in Butterworth at the weekend will be investigated by the Independent Police Investigative Directorate (Ipid). Police spokesperson Brigadier Tembinkosi Kinana confirmed on Monday that police management had handed over the case to the police watchdog.
Long-haul bus operator Intercape has reopened its routes and bus stops in areas of the Eastern Cape it said it had been unable to operate in because of violence and vigilantism against its buses. Intercape announced on social media this week that it was reopening its popular stops at Tsomo, Cofimvaba, Engcobo, Butterworth and Dutywa with immediate effect.
Over 200 matric pupils from Pakamani Senior Secondary in Butterworth are fuming after being told they will not get their exam results this week following a blunder over their life orientation paper.
East London Street artist Nathan Sanan has created an underwater world on the outer wall of a home in Sunrise-on-Sea. Fishermen stop to compare their own catch to the bluetail fish painted on the wall, and children pretend they are jumping through it to swim with the humpback whale so realistically painted you can almost touch the barnacles on its back.