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 that and become pione...

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

In attempting to officially become the fastest woman to circumnavigate the globe by bicycle, Cristin Flynn will cycle around the world to make it into Guinne...

Two East London open water swimmers recently tackled a 10km swim in the Bronkhorstspruit River in Gauteng to raise awareness around the unhealthy state of So...

Dr Hobden was selected based on her submission titled: Citizenship, International Justice, and the View from the South. Her first residency officially start...

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

Cecilia Makiwane was born in 1880 at the MacFarlane Mission in the Victoria district of Alice in the Eastern Cape. Her father was a teacher and a minister an...

Sarah Selkirk, of East London, has been awarded the University of Stellenbosch's (US) prestigious S2A3 medal for the best MSc student in the natural, enginee...

“Music is how I express myself, I cannot imagine my life without it.” These are the words of Dr Devandré Boonzaaier, Music Lecturer and Deputy Head of the Mu...

East London pro surfer Wendy Botha is a former world surf champion who dominated women's surfing during the late 1980s and early 1990s, capturing the title f...

Bantu Stephen Biko was the first president of South African Students Organisation (SASO) and the founder and leader of the Black Consciousness Movement. A he...

East London-born Broadway star Amra-Faye Wright has starred as Velma Kelly in the hit musical Chicago an incredible 2,700 times over a period of more than 1...

Donald James Woods was born at Hobeni near Elliotdale on 15 December 1933 and educated at Christian Brothers College in Kimberley. After completing matric, W...

The fascinating story of a family recipe, an enterprising King William's Town woman and the birth of an iconic condiment brand known throughout the world, as...

A talented all-round athlete, Julian Hykes of East London has excelled at rugby, cricket and hockey. But it is on the astro turf where he has enjoyed his gre...

Born and raised in East London, Mark Boucher has cemented his place as one of the finest cricketers in South Africa with 998 international dismissals, includ...

Victoria Nonyamezelo Mxenge was born on 1 January 1942 in Tamara Village in King William’s Town. After completing her primary education at Tamara, she went t...

‘Our Shakespeare! Our Laureate!’ eulogised former ANC President Alfred Xuma when he unveiled S.E.K. Mqhayi’s tombstone in 1951. And the young Nelson Mandela...