For more than a month, a Despatch family has desperately been searching for their son who was last seen outside the local Pick n Pay and, to make their ordeal even more terrifying, distraught father has been receiving threatening messages and a ransom demand for R220,000.
The Eastern Cape department of education has forked out R272m on a fencing project for schools in the province to ensure a safe and secure environment for thousands of pupils.
National water minister Senzo Mchunu stood on the pipeline bridge over Nelson Mandela Bay’s biggest dam on Thursday and looked down at the surface of the water.A long way down.