The Eastern Cape is the most dangerous place to live in SA, with increases in murder, hijackings, cash-in-transit robberies and other violent crimes shattering the previous quarterly statistics.
An Eastern Cape police officer was killed after he, and three other officers, responded to an emergency call about an armed business robbery that was in progress in one of the retail chain stores in town on Saturday in Engcobo.
Construction boss Mafani Dasheka returned to East London a winner after being secretly entered into the Empowerment and Recognition of Women in Construction (ERWIC) Awards by her staff. The director and founder of construction company Quantum Leap Investments 656 (Pty) Ltd said she was shocked and humbled to win the Business Resilience of the Year (Covid-19) award at the event in Johannesburg on Wednesday.