With near gale-force winds in Gqeberha on Friday afternoon, water-bombing aircraft were grounded, leaving just the hard-pressed ground crews to battle fires.
A quarrel between a jealous ex-boyfriend and a woman’s new lover ended in a drive-by shooting that claimed the life of an innocent bystander in Arcadia on Sunday night.
Weeks before he was charged with the murder of his 65-year-old mother, a Gqeberha man posted on Facebook that he was fearing for his life as people were after him.
Born with only her ear lobes, a six-year-old Nelson Mandela Bay girl teased for most of her life for “looking different”, will soon be smiling from ear to ear after undergoing seven hours of reconstructive surgery at Provincial Hospital on Tuesday.