Five years ago, 26-year-old Rat Western loaded her cat, suitcases and two-year-old son into her car and drove a thousand kilometres from Jo'burg to Grahamstown, where she had found a job at ­Rhodes ...

In Grahamstown, the student-led shutdown of Rhodes University that began a week ago has ended. Apart from the remnants of barricades, the cardboard placards used during protests last week that welcome ...

Grahamstown in the Eastern Cape will soon have a new name. The changing of the name Grahamstown to Makhanda was published in the Government Gazette on Friday, the Department of Arts and Culture said.

Almost three weeks have passed since the start of xenophobic looting in Grahamstown that left 500 “foreign” shop owners and family members—most of them South African citizens—with nothing, and more ...

A court application to set aside art and culture minister Nathi Mthethwa’s decision to change the name of Grahamstown to Makhanda has failed. Makhanda will remain the official name of the small ...

The Anglican Church of Southern Africa has named new bishops for its congregations in Pretoria and Makhanda (Grahamstown). Right Rev Dr Vicentia Kgabe, Bishop of Lesotho, was elected on Monday as the ...

On October 10 2013, a certain segment of white South Africans left their children with the "girl" for a couple of hours as they marched through the streets demanding acknowledgement of the "genocide" ...

There's little as shocking for a National Arts Festival partygoer as visiting Grahamstown outside of the festival period - and it can get even weirder during holiday time when all the students and ...

Arts and Culture Minister Nathi Mthethwa has revealed that he has received just more than 300 letters objecting to the gazetted name change of Grahamstown to Makhanda. The minister said to date 332 ...

The arts and culture minister has pushed forward the renaming of Grahamstown to Makhanda, instead of the 'brutal and vicious' John Graham. People around the world will probably soon be calling ...