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From ice cream vendor to mathematical statistician
From selling ice cream on the East London Esplanade to raise money for a school uniform, to a Master's Degree in Mathematical Statistics:...
Buffalo City Tourism
Oct 9, 2022
 
 


Nicola Smith takes flight as East London's first woman airport manager
Congratulations Nicola Smith on being appointed the first woman manager of the King Phalo Airport, formerly  East London Airport. She...
Buffalo City Tourism
Apr 19, 2021
 
 


East London lecturer wins international praise for helping students adapt to online learning
East London accounting lecturer Daylan Staude has won international acclaim for what a panel of judges called an inspiring and...
Buffalo City Tourism
Nov 23, 2020
 
 


Our People: Wayne Taylor
Buffalo City's most successful sports car racing driver, Wayne Taylor is a three-time sports car champion and, most recently, one of the...
Buffalo City Tourism
Jul 14, 2020
 
 


Our People: Thenjiwe Mtintso
Meet Thenjiwe Mtintso, the tenacious former Daily Dispatch journalist who survived brutal police torture to become an admired military...
Buffalo City Tourism
Jul 7, 2020
 
 


ECape Green Scorpions shortlisted for national conservation award
The Eastern Cape DEDEAT Green Scorpions have been shortlisted for a national Rhino Conservation Award. They were nominated in the...
Buffalo City Tourism
Jul 2, 2020
 
 


Our People: Sharon Sijako, East London Port Manager
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...
Buffalo City Tourism
Jun 24, 2020
 
 


The inspiring story of East London's own little miracle, Unakho Ntshintishi
Meet Unakho Ntshintshi, one of Buffalo City's most inspirational young community and health activists. Unakho was born in November 2004...
Buffalo City Tourism
Jun 23, 2020
 
 


Khayakazi Somzana appointed new Chief Marine Engineer Officer in the Port of East London
Khayakazi ‘Pinky’ Somzana has succeeded in overcoming both mother nature and gender bias to realise her dream of becoming a Chief Marine...
Buffalo City Tourism
Jun 18, 2020
 
 


Our People: Noni Jabavu
Writer and journalist Noni Jabavu was a pioneer. The first black South African woman to publish autobiographies, she had a remarkable...
Buffalo City Tourism
Jun 15, 2020
 
 


TRIBUTE: East London HIV/Aids pioneer Dr Clarence Mini
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...
Buffalo City Tourism
May 21, 2020
 
 


Our People: Nontetha Nkwenkwe
Seer, diviner, religious leader, priestess .... Nontetha Nkwenkwe was one of the Eastern Cape's most remarkable heroines. But her death -...
Buffalo City Tourism
May 12, 2020
 
 


Buffalo City golfers leading the way
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...
Buffalo City Tourism
Mar 17, 2020
 
 


OUR PEOPLE: Walter Benson Rubusana
A life-size memorial statue honouring Dr Walter Benson Rubusana, one of South Africa's leading intellectuals and humanitarians, enjoys...
Buffalo City Tourism
Feb 20, 2020
 
 


EL cyclist aims to cycle 28,000km circumnavigating the globe
In attempting to officially become the fastest woman to circumnavigate the globe by bicycle, Cristin Flynn will cycle around the world to...
Buffalo City Tourism
Feb 15, 2020
 
 


East London open water swimmers raise awareness of SA river pollution
Two East London open water swimmers recently tackled a 10km swim in the Bronkhorstspruit River in Gauteng to raise awareness around the...
Buffalo City Tourism
Feb 15, 2020
 
 


Dr Christine Hobden awarded prestigious Iso Lomso Fellowship
Dr Hobden was selected based on her submission titled:  Citizenship, International Justice, and the View from the South. Her first...
Buffalo City Tourism
Jan 18, 2020
 
 


Our People: John Tengo Jabavu
John Tengo Jabavu (11 January 1859 – 10 September 1921)  was a political activist and the editor of South Africa's first newspaper to be...
Buffalo City Tourism
Jan 7, 2020
 
 


Our People: Cecilia Makiwane, SA's first black professional nurse
Cecilia Makiwane was born in 1880 at the MacFarlane Mission in the Victoria district of Alice in the Eastern Cape. Her father was a...
Buffalo City Tourism
Jan 5, 2020
 
 


The 'pale, mauvy blue' catch that put East London on the international map
On 22 December 1938, 32-year-old East London Museum curator Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer made one of the greatest zoological discoveries of...
Buffalo City Tourism
Dec 22, 2019
 
 
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