Gompo Rock, situated 11km west of East London between Hickman's River and Winterstrand, is a magical corner of the Metro occupying a...

East London's picturesque Hood Point lighthouse is an iconic city landmark which has been signalling safe passage to seafarers for more...

In the pre-dawn hours of 27 July 1909, the brand-new triple deck passenger and cargo steamship, the SS Waratah, drew level with the SS...

The Bhisho Contact Centre is a Living heritage site that tells the story of what happened during the Bhisho Massacre on 7 September 1992,...

In 1939, a beautiful but badly mutilated marble statue was discovered in King William's Town. The figure of a tall woman in a flowing...

In the early hours of 21 February 1917, South Africa suffered its greatest - and most inexplicable - disasters of the Great War. The SS...

The Lucy was East London's first suction dredger, named after Lucy Schermbrucker, wife of Colonel Schermbrucker, who was the Member of...

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

Amathole Museum in King William's Town is recognised as housing the second largest mammal specimen collection in the southern...

In 1967, 70 families from as far afield as Middelburg and the Karoo, were relocated to an area subsequently named Dimbaza. Due to the...

The Quanza was a four-masted steamship of 942 tons which went ashore at East London on Sunday, 26 May 1872 at 05h00. She struck the rocks...

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

The Nelson Mandela Museum, situated just two hours' drive from Buffalo City, celebrates its 20th anniversary on 11 February 2020. The...

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

The Amathole Museum Library has a valuable collection of books, pamphlets, journals, videos, abstracts and government publications. It...

It was the summer of 1909. Orville Wright had taken to the skies just four years earlier and around the world, interest in mechanical...

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

On July 19th 1921 a group of interested people met with the Mayor, Captain J. Neale, and Deputy  Mayor, Dr James Bruce-Bays, to suggest...

Folklore and legend play an important part in Xhosa history and tradition, and, consequently, in the cultural landscape of Buffalo City...

It is well known that large numbers of German settlers travelled to Buffalo City during the mid-1800s. What is perhaps less well known is...