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1 month ago | 
theherald.co.za | Riaan Marais |Kathryn Kimberley
Top lawyer, Gqeberha firm in battle over restraint of trade Former employer wants Ferns to stop engaging with its clients for 12 months over poaching fears Premium By Riaan Marais and Kathryn Kimberley - 25 March 2025 Fearful a former partner will “poach clients”, Gqeberha law firm Kaplan Blumberg has taken prominent family lawyer Lizette Ferns to court to enforce a restraint of trade clause.
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Jan 16, 2025 | 
heraldlive.co.za | Nomazima Nkosi |Riaan Marais
Health committee, stakeholders meet over Kariega hospital crisis Issues raised include staff shortages, security and transfer of CEO Premium By Nomazima Nkosi and Riaan Marais - 17 January 2025 Four months after an oversight inspection, the Eastern Cape health portfolio committee was slammed for a lack of progress on fixing facilities in Nelson Mandela Bay, especially the Uitenhage Provincial Hospital.
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Jan 16, 2025 | 
heraldlive.co.za | Riaan Marais
Elderly woman haunted by harrowing ordeal ‘I decided to sell my house because I am afraid he will come back here,’ says rape victim Premium By Riaan Marais - 17 January 2025 Consumed by trauma, a 71-year-old Gqeberha woman has put her house on the market to try to escape the painful memory of the night she was raped by a man she had known since he was a child.
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
heraldlive.co.za | Riaan Marais
Men accused of Gqeberha cop’s murder abandon bail bids Premium By Riaan Marais - 16 January 2025 Two of the men accused of being involved in the murder of police member Callan Andrews returned to the Gqeberha magistrate’s court yesterday where both applied for an attorney from Legal Aid SA and abandoned their formal bail applications. The men, both 27, have been identified as Damian Brooks and Chadwin Visagie...
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
heraldlive.co.za | Riaan Marais
Gary van Niekerk back in dock in February after quick court appearance By Riaan Marais - 16 January 2025 Suspended Nelson Mandela Bay deputy mayor Gary van Niekerk is set to return to the specialised commercial crimes court in Gqeberha in just over a month after making a brief appearance on Wednesday morning. Van Niekerk’s legal team is expected to make representations to court regarding the strength of the state’s case against their client when the matter returns on February 21...
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
heraldlive.co.za | Riaan Marais
‘Sibling schools rivalry’ sees Riebeek College matrics beat Muir Premium By Riaan Marais - 15 January 2025 A friendly sibling rivalry between two Kariega schools went the way of Riebeek College Girls’ High School after its class of 2024 achieved a higher pass rate than its brother school, Muir College, for the first time in three years. The all-girls school achieved a 97.7% pass rate, while Muir managed 95.4%...
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Jan 14, 2025 | 
heraldlive.co.za | Riaan Marais
No challenge too great for Uitenhage High matriculant Venedro de Koker has defied the odds and attained a bachelor’s pass — and now she wants to be a teacher like her late adoptive mom Premium By Riaan Marais - 15 January 2025 She was only a few hours old when her mother abandoned her at Dora Nginza Hospital 18 years ago. Walking home from school, at the age of 13, she was hit by a speeding car, and at 17, a drunk driver hit her with his car on the side of the road...
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Jan 13, 2025 | 
heraldlive.co.za | Riaan Marais
Six die in bloodbath at Veeplaas house Premium By Riaan Marais - 14 January 2025 When family members last saw Siyabonga Befile, it was a quiet Sunday afternoon and he was on his way to a house down the street to enjoy a drink with friends. They could not know he would never return and that they would instead find his body among the six men who were mowed down in the small RDP house in Veeplaas shortly after 10pm...
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Jan 13, 2025 | 
heraldlive.co.za | Tremaine van Aardt |Riaan Marais |Brandon Nel |Asanda Nini
Eastern Cape’s pass rate on the rise Class of 2024 attains 84.98%, improving for fourth year in a row Premium By Tremaine van Aardt, Riaan Marais, Brandon Nel and Asanda Nini - 14 January 2025 The Eastern Cape’s Class of 2024 has set a new benchmark, improving the province’s overall pass rate by an impressive 3.6 percentage points. The Eastern Cape has now managed to improve its pass rate for the fourth consecutive year...
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Jan 12, 2025 | 
heraldlive.co.za | Riaan Marais
Premium With his first real pay cheque as a police officer, Callan Andrews wanted to buy himself a PlayStation and help his mom make improvements to the Gelvandale home where he grew up. Unfortunately, these plans became nothing more than lines in his eulogy on Saturday morning during the 30-year-old constable’s funeral, where his coffin, draped with the SA flag, stood in the front of the Ebenezer International Church...
