A man who killed his wife and buried her under a bath in their home in Butterworth in the Eastern Cape in 2019 has been sentenced to life imprisonment.
A stopgap bid to deal with food shortages in a rural Eastern Cape village during Covid has blossomed into an award-winning farming project, netting a second-year student a prize of R120,000.
Six rapists, among them a man convicted of raping an eight-year-old girl and another for the rape of a 10-year-old, have recently been handed hefty jail sentences by courts in the Eastern Cape.
Fourteen that is the average number of murders occurring every day across the Eastern Cape, while there has been a decrease in various other crimes in the province, according to police.
Eastern Cape farmers and livestock owners have been warned to be on the alert for stock theft heading into the festive season after the recovery of 162 suspected stolen sheep, 62 goats and 14 cows worth more than R400,000 in recent weeks.Some of the sheep were found locked inside a village church building.