Establishing a national park and biosphere reserve along the Wild Coast makes a lot of sense. So why have there been so many hiccups along the way? A proposal to create a new national park in the ...

The Constitutional Court ruling to set aside the process appointing the current king of Pondoland has left a great deal of confusion in its wake. The two families eligible for the position both think ...

The Mkambati River drops over the Horseshoe Waterfall. BEFORE we leave Mkambati Nature Reserve let us explore it a little more fully, following in the footsteps of some very special people. Let us ...

The Eastern Cape health department, police, traditional healers and others will visit Pondoland from Monday to discuss initiation school deaths, a spokesperson said. "We are going there and we will be ...

For generations, people in South Africa's Eastern Cape have made their living growing cannabis. You might expect that as the country moves to legalise the crop, they would be first in line to benefit, ...

Cape Town - The Democratic Alliance has called on new Environment Minister Marthinus van Schalkwyk to "break his silence" about plans by an Australian-led consortium to mine dunes along the Eastern ...

Notorious Pondoland ingcibi ­Mtshiyelwa “Mtshayina” Ndoda has circumcised nearly 900 young boys over the past two months, some of them still in ­lower primary school. One of them, a 17-year-old from ...

A new strategy to counter circumcision deaths has yielded positive results in the Pondoland area, Eastern Cape MEC for Traditional Affairs Mlibo Qoboshiyane said on Tuesday. "Only one death has been ...

"The Pondoland area was synonymous with supplying the cannabis throughout South Africa," he says. However, changes in the law had a "detrimental" effect on Pondoland farmers, because it meant anyone ...