Guide books will tell a lot about Graaff-Reinet, but it is only on the heights above this exceptional town that one realises why it goes by the name Gem of the Karoo. The circular shape of the Old ...

Graaff-Reinet is a historic rural town in South Africa’s Eastern Cape province. It seldom makes headlines. But when, in August 2023, residents received word that the town’s name might change to Robert ...

Many moons ago, according to local legend, a woman used to sit on the stoep of the old Drostdy Hotel and recount amusing anecdotes to anyone within earshot. And when one of those majestic Karoo ...

Graaff-Reinet is a historic rural town in South Africa's Eastern Cape province. It seldom makes headlines. But when, in August 2023, residents received word that the town's name might change to Robert ...

Looking down on the horseshoe-shaped town of Graaff-Reinet from the vantage point of the Valley of Desolation surrounded by the arid starkness of the Karoo’s Camdeboo National Park, the outline of ...

As part of the decolonisation process, the state should do away with provocative names that are associated with colonial and apartheid atrocities. Graaff-Reinet is one of many names that the ...

Racism - white supremacy - is still deeply entrenched and memorialised in most, if not all, the former settler colonial towns and cities of South Africa. In fact, institutionalised racism and ...

Residents in a low-income Graaff-Reinet community are cleaning up the litter around them, taking it in bags to a special container shop and receiving tokens to buy food in exchange. In its first four ...

Anger and pride have collided in the Karoo as Graaff-Reinet officially becomes Robert Sobukwe Town, with the grandson of the legendary anti-apartheid activist admitting the moment is as painful as it ...

A water crisis in the town of Graaff-Reinet has seen the Nqweba Dam run dry, leaving behind an overpowering stench of dead fish while residents "fight" for water. The humanitarian organisation Gift of ...