Just as one kidnapping drama came to an end this week, Nelson Mandela Bay police were faced with yet another abduction when a Chinese national was snatched from outside his workplace in Kariega on Wednesday.
The rain was not enough to prevent the destruction of a historic Kouga farmhouse when a fire spread through the 250-year-old structure’s thatch roof on Tuesday.
Scores of residents evacuated their flooded homes on Tuesday as the heavy rains battering Cape Town swept across the Garden Route and further eastward towards Nelson Mandela Bay.
The abuse she suffered, allegedly at the hands of her neighbour, left an elderly woman from Soweto-on-Sea so traumatised, she visited four different shops looking for rat poison so she could take her own life.