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Panayiotou murder trial postponed

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Port Elizabeth – The murder trial of Christopher Panayiotou, the Port Elizabeth businessman accused of paying hitmen to kill his wife Jayde, was on Monday postponed to December 2.

Panayiotou, 28, appeared briefly in the Port Elizabeth Magistrate’s court. At his next appearance in December, the court is expected to set the date for his trial to proceed in the Grahamstown High Court.

The body of his wife, a 29-year-old school teacher, was found on the outskirts of KwaNobuhle township in Uitenhage in April, a day after she disappeared. She was assaulted, thrown in the boot of a car and shot twice in the back and once in the head.

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Flowers for Reeva as Steenkamps gather on a PE beach for her birthday

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Port Elizabeth – The Steenkamp family commemorated Reeva’s birthday in a private ceremony in Port Elizabeth on Wednesday morning.

Reeva would have turned 32.

Reeva’s parents Barry and June, her sister Simone and four other family members gathered at the Hobie Beach in Summerstrand where they placed flowers in the ocean.

The model and law student was shot and killed by her boyfriend Oscar Pistorius on Valentine’s Day of 2013. He claimed to have mistaken her for an intruder.

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Council strike keeps PE lights on

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Port Elizabeth – While the rest of South Africa has been hard hit by load shedding this weekend, residents from Nelson Mandela Bay have not had to endure any planned power outages since Friday as the city’s electrical staff have downed tools in an unprotected strike.

The striking staff are responsible for implementing the scheduled outages based on Eskom’s national load shedding requirements.

Staff at the energy and electricity department of the Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality have downed tools in a protest believed to be related to allowance issues.

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Outpouring of relief as Panayiotou denied bail

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Port Elizabeth – There was a huge outpouring of relief in the Port Elizabeth Magistrate’s Court on Friday as murder-accused Christopher Panayiotou was denied bail and told to go back to prison to wait to be tried for the murder of his wife Jayde.

“The court’s finding is that the applicant has failed to show exceptional circumstances. Bail is refused,” said Magistrate Abigail Beeton.

Panayiotou dropped his head as the ruling was read out.

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We set statue alight – EFF

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Port Elizabeth – EFF deputy chairperson for the Nelson Mandela Bay region, Bo Madwara, has confirmed that the local chapter was behind the setting alight of the War Memorial statue in Uitenhage’s Market Square on Thursday.

“Unfortunately we could not topple the statue, as the police came and stopped us,” he said.

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