A 41-year-old Gqeberha man has been sentenced to an effective 20 years behind bars after admitting to beating his mother to death after she refused to give him money to buy alcohol.
It’s an icy morning at the Shine Literacy Centre, which is run from a container in Gqeberha’s Walmer Township. But ‘Preposition Bear’, a large teddy bear with a pink hula hoop around his tummy, is already on duty.
The Independent Police Investigative Directorate (Ipid) confirmed it has confiscated the service firearms of two police officers who allegedly shot and killed a Walmer Township resident in April.