From selling ice cream on the East London Esplanade to raise money for a school uniform, to a Master's Degree in Mathematical Statistics:...

Congratulations Nicola Smith on being appointed the first woman manager of the King Phalo Airport, formerly East London Airport. She...

East London accounting lecturer Daylan Staude has won international acclaim for what a panel of judges called an inspiring and...

Buffalo City's most successful sports car racing driver, Wayne Taylor is a three-time sports car champion and, most recently, one of the...

Meet Thenjiwe Mtintso, the tenacious former Daily Dispatch journalist who survived brutal police torture to become an admired military...

The Eastern Cape DEDEAT Green Scorpions have been shortlisted for a national Rhino Conservation Award. They were nominated in the...

Sharon Sijako has served as East London Port Manager since December 2017 - only the second woman in the port's 120-plus year history to...

Meet Unakho Ntshintshi, one of Buffalo City's most inspirational young community and health activists. Unakho was born in November 2004...

Khayakazi ‘Pinky’ Somzana has succeeded in overcoming both mother nature and gender bias to realise her dream of becoming a Chief Marine...

Writer and journalist Noni Jabavu was a pioneer. The first black South African woman to publish autobiographies, she had a remarkable...

East London-born chair of the Council for Medical Schemes, Dr Clarence Mini, who died of Covid-19 last week, was a giant of the South...

Seer, diviner, religious leader, priestess .... Nontetha Nkwenkwe was one of the Eastern Cape's most remarkable heroines. But her death -...

Compared with the men's game, women's golf still lacks support, but the Duma sisters and Zethu Myeki may just be the ones to change all...

A life-size memorial statue honouring Dr Walter Benson Rubusana, one of South Africa's leading intellectuals and humanitarians, enjoys...

In attempting to officially become the fastest woman to circumnavigate the globe by bicycle, Cristin Flynn will cycle around the world to...

Two East London open water swimmers recently tackled a 10km swim in the Bronkhorstspruit River in Gauteng to raise awareness around the...

Dr Hobden was selected based on her submission titled: Citizenship, International Justice, and the View from the South. Her first...

John Tengo Jabavu (11 January 1859 – 10 September 1921) was a political activist and the editor of South Africa's first newspaper to be...

Cecilia Makiwane was born in 1880 at the MacFarlane Mission in the Victoria district of Alice in the Eastern Cape. Her father was a...

On 22 December 1938, 32-year-old East London Museum curator Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer made one of the greatest zoological discoveries of...

Sarah Selkirk, of East London, has been awarded the University of Stellenbosch's (US) prestigious S2A3 medal for the best MSc student in...

“Music is how I express myself, I cannot imagine my life without it.” These are the words of Dr Devandré Boonzaaier, Music Lecturer and...

The idea to bring German nuns to South Africa to teach the children of German settlers here was first mooted by Sir George Grey, ...

East London pro surfer Wendy Botha is a former world surf champion who dominated women's surfing during the late 1980s and early 1990s,...

Bantu Stephen Biko was the first president of South African Students Organisation (SASO) and the founder and leader of the Black...

East London-born Broadway star Amra-Faye Wright has starred as Velma Kelly in the hit musical Chicago an incredible 2,700 times over a...

Donald James Woods was born at Hobeni near Elliotdale on 15 December 1933 and educated at Christian Brothers College in Kimberley. After...

The fascinating story of a family recipe, an enterprising King William's Town woman and the birth of an iconic condiment brand known...

A talented all-round athlete, Julian Hykes of East London has excelled at rugby, cricket and hockey. But it is on the astro turf where he...

Born and raised in East London, Mark Boucher has cemented his place as one of the finest cricketers in South Africa with 998...

Victoria Nonyamezelo Mxenge was born on 1 January 1942 in Tamara Village in King William’s Town. After completing her primary education...

‘Our Shakespeare! Our Laureate!’ eulogised former ANC President Alfred Xuma when he unveiled S.E.K. Mqhayi’s tombstone in 1951. And the...

This is about a South African invention that is still regarded as streets ahead of anything else devised for its purpose. But as is often...