Msindisi Fengu

Disturbing allegations of prolonged abuse behind the closed doors of a Gqeberha home have emerged with the arrest of a 27-year-old father who allegedly raped both his teenage stepdaughter and his five-year-old son.

Residents of a Nelson Mandela Bay community are on tenterhooks with the men responsible for a triple murder at the weekend still at large.

Sinalo Smith was stabbed to death inside his NU29 home on the night of May 31 — a killing that has since ignited protests, conflicting accounts and mounting frustration over a lack of an arrest.

The court also ordered the parties to meet in an effort to resolve the long-running dispute.

The Eastern Cape health department has fewer than 10 days to comply with an order to pay the salaries of a group of workers, failing which health MEC Ntandokazi Capa could face possible arrest.

Monday marked judgment day for Siphelele Ntisana, 27, who was found guilty of a litany of charges.

A life sentence should be imposed on convicted murderer Siphelele Ntisana, state prosecutor advocate Dail Andrews said while arguing in aggravation of sentence at the Gqeberha high court on Tuesday.

Kungawo Mehlo, a grade 6 Sydenham Primary School pupil, was found in her bedroom at her Pancras Street home by her teenage cousin.

On Thursday, Ntisana was sentenced to life in prison on each murder count, and 15 years for each of the three attempted murders.

Provincial community safety MEC Xolile Nqatha and Eastern Cape police commissioner Lieutenant-General Vuyisile Ncata said on Thursday that intelligence