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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

I spent some of my happiest and most formative years in the town previously known as Grahamstown, at the university currently known as Rhodes. Much of what I still believe today was developed in the ...

People around the world will soon be calling Grahamstown by a different name. This was the decision gazetted by the Department of Arts and Culture which proposed the name Makhanda. The department said ...

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 ...