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Business owners in Mthatha and surrounding towns are being threatened by extortionists who sometimes order them to cough up as much as R30,000 for “protection”.Police spokesperson Captain Welile Matyolo told the Dispatch this week that at least seven cases had been reported so far.
Women in a remote but close-knit village on the outskirts of Mqanduli are living in fear after two neighbours an elderly mother and her daughter were gunned down in cold blood this week. Nowandethe Njiphethu, 75, and her daughter Lathiswa Njiphethu, 54, were shot in their rondavel on Tuesday night at Maqanyeni village in the Ngcwanguba administrative area.