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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
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The day East London soared into South African aviation history
It was the summer of 1909. Orville Wright had taken to the skies just four years earlier and around the world, interest in mechanical...
Buffalo City Tourism
Dec 27, 2019
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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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