While police monitored a peaceful and legal protest by Rhodes University students and staff at the western end of Grahamstown, shops were being attacked and looted across town. This was despite ...

Police fired flash bangs during running battles with protesters in the Grahamstown city centre today‚ as they tried to prevent shops being looted. The protests were not linked to the ongoing # ...

Grahamstown was founded as a military headquarters in 1812 during a vicious war waged by the British against the Xhosa, and it grew as a settler town from 1820. The voluntary arrival, and forced ...

The minister of arts and culture Nathi Mthethwa has published a government gazette indicating that the Eastern Cape town of Grahamstown will have its name changed to Makhanda.

An uneasy calm has returned to Grahamstown, just over week after xenophobic violence forced more than 300 foreign-born shopkeepers to flee the town.

A generous hotel owner has given 500 foreigners - fearing for their lives after xenophobic violence - a place to stay.

Grahamstown has been singled out in parliament by President Thabo Mbeki as a contentious place name - he says it was named after a brutal and vicious military 'butcher'.

The Grocott's Office Shop was liquidated here yesterday (subs: thurs) due to shrinking margins and changes in the market and the depriation of the rand.

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.

Grahamstown Now, launched on Friday 18 June 2010, provides news and real-time information to the city's residents on a mobile platform. It is part of the Lindaba Ziyafika (the news is coming ...

Passion is in the air in the town of 60 churches, where people do things together they never thought they would, and probably never will again.

The rebellion of the poor has been spreading from town to town, from squatter camp to squatter camp, since 2004. Last week it arrived in Grahamstown. There is no third force, political party or ...