The Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality says beaches and all public amenities are closed from Sunday. It says in a statement new directives are in effect in efforts to ensure that all necessary precautions are taken to ensure that the transmission of the novel coronavirus, COVID-19, is contained.
A sixth suspect has been arrested in Mpumalanga for killing an 83-year-old granny in Sterkspruit in the Eastern Cape. Saturday's arrest of the 32-year old man follows after five suspects were arrested in various parts of the Eastern Cape and the Western Cape.
A male student at Fort Hare University has died a week after being hit over the head by another student in a residence at the Alice campus.
A Port Elizabeth nightclub has been fined for selling alcohol after 6 pm in breach of regulations aimed at curbing the spread of the coronavirus.
The Eastern Cape has registered its first positive case of the Covid-19 virus, as the number of confirmed cases in the country rose to 240. This was announced by the National Institute for Communicable Diseases on Saturday.
Eastern Cape police have arrested three suspects for allegedly forcing a woman in Adelaide to insert her bank card into an ATM to clone it. The men, aged between 30 and 38, then fled in a red Datsun sedan in the direction of Bedford.
A fourth truck has been torched as irate residents continue to take to the streets in a service delivery protest in the N2 vicinity of the Markman Industrial area near Motherwell in Port Elizabeth. Police Captain, Andre Beetge, says the situation remains volatile, but no arrests have been made.
A Port Elizabeth teenager has been arrested in the city's northern areas for being in possession of a firearm reported stolen in Walmer in January.
Health officials in the Eastern Cape are waiting for the Covid-19 test results of three people from the Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality who recently travelled to Sweden. EC Health MEC Sindiswa Gomba spoke on Algoa FM on Friday morning.
