After nine years and more than 30 court appearances, an Eastern Cape man has been acquitted of the death of a fellow student during a birthday party drinking binge in 2014.
The body of heavily pregnant woman was found on Monday, five days after a bakkie she was travelling in was swept away while the driver tried to cross a river in an Eastern Cape village. The incident was one of two at the Mthingwevu River in Cala on December 28. The remains of two men were discovered on that same day but a search was launched for the 29-year-old mother-to-be, Nompumelelo Dyantyi.
The elephant seal that made Kwaaihoek Beach near Bushman’s River Mouth its home for a few weeks was moulting. That’s according to marine mammals scientist Greg Hofmeyr, whose research on elephant seals stretches over years. Hofmeyr is curator of the marine mamma collection at the Bayworld Museum in Gqeberha.
Premier Oscar Mabuyane has been heavily criticised by gender-based violence activists after he donned lipstick and, in an extraordinary analogy, compared men to pit bull terriers at a high-profile event meant to tackle the scourge.