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Certain communities in Nelson Mandela Bay could be without water for 10 days while the Department of Water and Sanitation carries out much-needed upgrades to the Sundays River Canal.

Three men, aged between 27 and 32, were arrested on Wednesday morning for the illegal possession of abalone during a joint operation by the Gonubie police, the East London K-9 Unit and the Green Scorpions. Police spokesperson Captain Hazel Mqala said authorities received information about illegal diving activities at German Bay beach.

The Department of Transport believes the machine used to print drivers' licences will be up and running by the end of next week. The department announced recently that the country's only licence card printer broke down.

India and Pakistan exchanged heavy artillery fire along their contested frontier on Wednesday after New Delhi launched deadly missile strikes on its arch-rival, in the worst violence between the nuclear-armed neighbours in two decades.

The cast iron stove on which the cardinals burn their ballots was first used at the March 1939 conclave. Since 2005, the Vatican has added a new stove, connected to a small flue that feeds into the same chimney. In it, chemicals are burned for several minutes to colour the smoke.

Amid rising socioeconomic challenges in the Eastern Cape, the Church of Scientology of the Eastern Cape empowers local volunteers to make a difference.

In the affidavit, the liquidators argue that although the parents have “absconded”, their estate is situated within the jurisdiction of the Western Cape High Court and the liquidators are therefore entitled to institute sequestration proceedings against them.

Independent digital forensic investigators are conducting an investigation. The aim is to determine the root cause and full scope of the incident and explore the possibility that the disruption resulted from external cybercrime activities.

The Krisley Dirker murder trial got underway in the Gqeberha High Court on Tuesday, twelve years after the toddler's death.