Buffalo City TourismNov 2, 2019The ship that saved East LondonIn 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...
Buffalo City TourismOct 29, 2019The history of King William's TownKing William’s Town owes its establishment to 19th century warfare between the Cape Colony and the AmaRharhabe Xhosa and the tenacity of...
Buffalo City TourismOct 29, 2019GALLERY: Views of King William's Town (1893) by GH DersleyIn 1893, photographer GH Dersley published a book, Views of King William's Town, containing images he captured in and around the town....
Buffalo City TourismOct 29, 2019A Mission of Women: Early History of the Dominican Sisters and Sacred Heart ConventThe idea to bring German nuns to South Africa to teach the children of German settlers here was first mooted by Sir George Grey, ...
Buffalo City TourismOct 28, 2019The East London Museum treasure rewriting human prehistoryThe East London Museum is internationally known for its remarkable coelacanth and humanoid trace footprints specimens. A third, globally...
Buffalo City TourismOct 8, 2019Birds of a (Different) Feather: The curious case of the Ciskei flag and its variantsAmathole Museum staff recently unpacked its Ciskei flags, which forms part of the museum's impressive collection of Ciskei objects, and...
Buffalo City TourismSep 17, 2019Fort MurrayAfter 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...
Buffalo City TourismSep 17, 2019The Cuthbert's BuildingThe imposing treble-storeyed building, with its Flemish Renaissance gables, was designed by the architects Parker and Forsyth of Cape...
Buffalo City TourismSep 16, 2019Discover: The Ann Bryant Art GalleryThis 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. ...
Buffalo City TourismSep 10, 2019Daily Dispatch: The Early Years (1872-1899) The East London Dispatch and Shipping and Mercantile Gazette appeared on September 10 1872, as a subsidiary of a King William’s Town...
Buffalo City TourismSep 6, 20197 September 1992: A dark day in Buffalo City's historyOn 7 September 1992 - when the country was still reeling and in mourning for those killed in the Boipatong Massacre of 17 June 1992 - a...
Buffalo City TourismAug 13, 2019East London among first cities in Africa to have introduced electric tram systemThe East London tramway was officially opened on 25 Jan 1900 - just four years after the first such system was introduced in Cape Town....
Buffalo City TourismJul 31, 2019OUR PEOPLE: Victoria Nonyamezelo MxengeVictoria Nonyamezelo Mxenge was born on 1 January 1942 in Tamara Village in King William’s Town. After completing her primary education...
Buffalo City TourismJul 28, 2019OUR PEOPLE: The father of Xhosa poetry, S.E.K. Mqhayi‘Our Shakespeare! Our Laureate!’ eulogised former ANC President Alfred Xuma when he unveiled S.E.K. Mqhayi’s tombstone in 1951. And the...
Buffalo City TourismJul 21, 2019The East London gift that symbolised a nation's love and gratitudeOn 22 July 1990 - just five months after his release from prison - Nelson Mandela travelled to Mdantsane in Buffalo City to accept an...