Crowds of young first-time voters stood in long queues at voting stations in Nelson Mandela Bay on Wednesday, suggesting the youth vote may prove decisive in the outcome.

It was a day of unspeakable agony for three siblings, all dressed in black, who looked on as their father entered the dock in the Gqeberha magistrate’s court charged with the murder of their mother.

Police are searching for a woman who was seen leaving the scene shortly after a bus was set alight at the Eagle Liner/Intercity Xpress sales offices near Greenacres on Thursday.

A bike collision near Overbaakens in Gqeberha on Wednesday night claimed the life of a biker after he collided with a stray dog while travelling between Circular Drive and AG Visser Avenue.

Prison cells housing more than 1,900 inmates, some serving multiple life sentences, were swept during a raid at St Albans Correctional Facility on Thursday night.