In 1949, the city of East London found itself in the grip of a crippling drought. Such was the severity of the region's water shortage...

King William’s Town owes its establishment to 19th century warfare between the Cape Colony and the AmaRharhabe Xhosa and the tenacity of...

In 1893, photographer GH Dersley published a book, Views of King William's Town, containing images he captured in and around the town....

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

The East London Museum is internationally known for its remarkable coelacanth and humanoid trace footprints specimens. A third, globally...

Amathole Museum staff recently unpacked its Ciskei flags, which forms part of the museum's impressive collection of Ciskei objects, and...

After the Sixth Xhosa War (1834—1835), Sir Benjamin D’Urban annexed all the land between the Keiskamma and the Kei Rivers as part of the...

The imposing treble-storeyed building, with its Flemish Renaissance gables, was designed by the architects Parker and Forsyth of Cape...

This elegant old house was built by E.D.U. Bowen in 1905 for Mr. Arthur Savage, father of the well-known local artist, Elaine Savage. ...

The East London Dispatch and Shipping and Mercantile Gazette appeared on September 10 1872, as a subsidiary of a King William’s Town...

On 7 September 1992 - when the country was still reeling and in mourning for those killed in the Boipatong Massacre of 17 June 1992 - a...

The East London tramway was officially opened on 25 Jan 1900 - just four years after the first such system was introduced in Cape Town....

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...

On 22 July 1990 - just five months after his release from prison - Nelson Mandela travelled to Mdantsane in Buffalo City to accept an...