With the Gqeberha high court officially embarking on a seven-week recess, with only urgent matters being dealt with, Weekend Post looks back at some of the headline-making stories which shocked the public.
Though he was not one of the shooters, convicted murderer Sibusiso Mchunu should be sentenced to life in prison for his role in a holdup at a Gqeberha bakery which culminated in a shoot-out that claimed the lives of a police officer and four robbers.
Aware that they were being robbed after five men entered the Le Bon Bakery in Central brandishing firearms, the manager kept her composure and did what she was instructed to do.
It took just less than 15 minutes for four alleged robbers to be killed in a deadly gun battle with police inside a popular bakery in an early morning heist in Gqeberha.