Tammy Fray

After August 8, we may witness ratepayers’ associations from across the city institute legal action against the Buffalo City Municipality’s (BCM) electricity tariff increases...

Clarendon Girls Primary School grade 6 pupil, Viha Beecum recently returned from an exciting trip to Batumi, Georgia, where she represented SA in the...

A month after schools in the city reopened, pupils from Pefferville Primary and Alphendale Senior Secondary schools are finally back at their desks. Both schools...

Before the Umtiza Arts Festival kicks off this year, the EL Museum will have a new display at the entrance to the museum marking...

In the coming months, the municipality will be intensifying its efforts to recover outstanding debt from slow-paying consumers. This will be done in a bid...

NGO leader Leigh-Ann van der Merwe has made history as the first ever trans woman to be nominated as a commissioner to the SA...

This year, Zamile Kuwana and Nothule Gezana’s Thandizam Trading Enterprise and Projects celebrates a year in the local waste management space. Founded in 2022, Thandizam...

Matthew Pretorius, a talented grade 10 pupil at Stirling High School, recently had the honour of representing SA at the 2023 BRICS Games, a...

Morgan Bay clivia enthusiast Dave Coulson has gone home again this year with the Border Clivia Society show’s best on show...

Local badminton stars Mia Labuschagne, Tyron Sandison and Amy Swart represented the SA Under 19 team at the All Africa Games in Mauritius from...

Four East London waterpolo players, Tumi MacDonell, Hanna Muller, Paige and Chloe Meecham, are in Japan at the 2023 World Aquatic Championships, making history...

In an endeavour to reclaim their neighbourhoods, residents of Buffalo City are joining forces to submit a petition to the municipality to address the...

From April 27-30, the Wongalethu High School rugby festival will see school teams across the Border region take to the field once again for...

This year’s Buffalo Regatta entrenched East London as the pulse behind the longest running sporting event in SA. Though the University of Pretoria made a...

Graduation ceremonies can be too costly for students like Tyra Ilunga to attend, but through the efforts of locals from East London close to...

The junior Border angling Under 21 side bagged gold at the junior nationals in January, while the U16 team placed fourth overall, just 27...

Flying in aid of nature conservation for more than 25 years, the Bateleurs volunteer pilots’ organisation is busier than ever and urgently need an...

At the end of last year, Parkside Primary School (PPS) earned recognition at the Eastern Cape Gambling Board’s (ECGB) annual corporate investment awards for...

Bob Norris, the man who brought parkrun to our local shores officially became the 10th person in SA to reach 500 runs this past...

While work on the Waterworld upgrade project is still on hold and subcontractors and workers have gone without pay for three months, contractual disputes...

Workers at East London’s Waterworld fun park downed tools on January 19 over wage issues, delaying the completion of the project further. In October 2022,...

John Bisseker Secondary School has become an indictment of the EC education department’s failuresand the maelstrom of challenges at the school came to a...

The delivery room at Frere Hospital was deathly silent on Easter in 1985 when Samantha and Bianca Stanford were born three-and-a-half months early, so...

Pupils and teachers at Parklands Special School are struggling to keep up with the 2023 curriculum due to an ongoing dispute with the Department...

After a successful season last year, the Border Indoor Cricket side has kicked off this year with five players selected to the SA side...

For the fourth time in 120 years of local footballing history, Pride of India were crowned Platinum Cup winners in the annual East London...

Cremations at the Cambridge Crematorium ground to a halt for 10 days in December after the municipality failed to pay supplier, Afrox Gas, forcing...

Just 48 hours after being repaired, the traffic lights at the N2 off-ramp to Gonubie were stripped once again by cable thieves on January...

On November 1, a new manager will take the helm of the East London SPCA, and he intends to restore the 110-year-old institution to...

This year the East London Museum is continuing in its efforts to have local nature reserves gazetted at provincial level. The Nahoon Point Nature Reserve...

Cycling enthusiasts are gearing up to celebrate the return of the Eyabantwana Border 1000 Cycle Race on November 5. The annual race will hold special...

This past weekend, Border motorsport enthusiasts were treated to a heart-pounding spectacle at the local stock car oval as East London driver Johan Visagie...

Nearly 4,000 East London tertiary students and their families, now under SIU (Special Investigating Unit) investigation for irregularly receiving NSFAS funds between 2016 and...

We caught up with Brendan Knickelbein, the former Body 3.0 operations manager and current strength and conditioning coach at Grens High School, to discuss...

Last week the municipality decided to reconsider the 80/20 credit control policy for outstanding debt and possibly change the split to 60/40 instead. This follows...

The 2025 Buffalo Regatta has hit turbulent waters with the Eastern Cape Development Corporation (ECDC) withdrawing its sponsorship — a move that contributes to...

Lilyfontein achieved a perfect 100% matric pass rate for five consecutive years, the only Buffalo City School to achieve this, while East London Secondary...

Local waveski wonder, Bruce Viaene surfed his way into the top five in the world waveski global rankings this weekend after securing a series...

Last year, Selborne College Rowing Club (SCRC) celebrated 100 years of rowing on the Buffalo River. However, the club has broken with tradition and will...

In just five months since its launch, the Makazole Mapimpi Foundation has already made strides in developing future rugby stars, with two U16 players...

The Eastern Cape cycling team came second in the SA Youth Road Championships from June 7-9, held here in East London. According to Eastern Cape...

On April 3, BCM reinstated the ward-based funding for all 50 wards in the metro, enabling ward councillors to get back to implementing initiatives...

The White Lotus series’ penchant for killing off obscenely rich holidaymakers remains as riveting three seasons later as when the show first premiered. Season three,...

The construction of the much anticipated Kwelera National Botanical Garden is steadily underway, with phase one’s development scheduled to be completed by the end...

Local pupil Owam Nqweniso’s dreams of playing rugby for SA were almost compromised due to lack of funds until a local business, BTKM Quantity...

After years of complaints, March 24 saw BCM parks and recreation undertake repair work and upgrades of the walkway leading from the parking lot...

It was back to school for many pupils on Wednesday but this was not the case at Alphendale Senior Secondary School in Buffalo Flats. After...

The Border Under 19 boys soccer team claimed a commendable fourth-place finish at the 2023 Interprovincial Tournament from October 3-6, despite having only returned...

East London women’s hockey side, Aces, swooped in to claim a second consecutive victory this year at the KC Easter tournament in Gqeberha held...

The national book tour of The Indian Africans was hosted by Harry’s Printer’s in East London in December. Co-author Kiru Naidoo, who has been travelling...