“The situation is under control,” Eastern Cape Department of Health spokesperson Sizwe Kupelo said by 3pm on Saturday. Earlier, a group of alleged gang members who were shot while riding on the back of a bakkie had forced their way into Livingstone Hospital for treatment.
Screeching tyres, horrifying screams, and then silence this is how a witness vividly described a peak-hour accident that resulted in a traffic cop being struck and killed by a manganese ore truck on the N2 in Kinkelbos on Tuesday afternoon.
Two people died when a sedan overturned on the N2 in Gqeberha on Sunday; while in another accident on the T12 in Maluti a vehicle overturned, resulting in the loss of another two lives.
Crime in an affluent East London suburb has reached worrying proportions, leaving with residents panicking over their safety and that of their property. The Beacon Bay area has experienced a spike in house break-ins, with load-shedding worsening the situation.
The tarring of a 14km hard gravel stretch linking the state-of-the-art Sipetu Hospital in rural Ntabankulu to the N2 is set to be completed by 2026.This after Eastern Cape transport MEC Xolile Nqatha announced a new contractor to take over the project on Thursday.