On Friday, the Wild Coast bids eternal farewell to John Costello, who passed away last week at the age of 77, following a brief battle with cancer. Costello was a beloved Port St Johns and then East London resident, who was a great…
East London residents braved the rain last Sunday to stand in solidarity at the Nahoon Lifesavers Shack and protest Shell’s ongoing seismic blasting of the Wild Coast. Shell has employed the Shearwater GeoServices ship Amazon Warrior to…
ASANDA NINI While it supports Shell’s move to carry out seismic blasting on the Wild Coast, the Eastern Cape government intends to meet the oil giant’s bosses to raise concerns voiced in a spate of public protests across the country…
STAFF REPORTER Shell faces an urgent interdict to stop it from seismic blasting on the ecologically sensitive and biodiverse Wild Coast. A local deep sea angling club and ski-boat club have joined forces with two powerful international…
It’s proving to be more and more challenging to pick a winner as the entries received so far are really fantastic. Take a look at these photo’s from Week 3’s entries and you will get the picture (pun intended). Two weeks remain in which…
Six members of the same Port St Johns family have tested positive for the coronavirus. Fourteen of their relatives are awaiting their test results. The infections in a village, announced by local and district mayors and health department…
A KwaZulu-Natal security specialist was on his way to the Eastern Cape on Tuesday afternoon to investigate an attack on a couple in the Hluleka Nature Reserve, near Mthatha. Magma Security and Investigations director Shaheen Suleiman told…
A woman was killed and her husband gravely wounded in a stabbing incident in the Hluleka Reserve, near Mthatha in the Eastern Cape, in the early hours of Tuesday morning. Independent sources within the emergency medical service, who spoke…
Construction of a five-star hotel on community land adjacent to the Wild Coast’s pristine Mkhambathi Reserve starts next month. Tourism minister Derek Hanekom told a media briefing in Tsitsikamma last week, at the launch of tourism month,…
Sardine runs, cruises, fresh fish and trampoline parks are some of the attractions that prompt visitors and tourists to spend their holiday cash in East London and along the Wild Coast. Southern Cross Cruises owner John Barry, who takes…
AT 4pm on Wednesday (September 20), NSRI East London were alerted by the Transnet National Ports Authority following reports of two sailors requiring urgent patient evacuation off the bulk carrier Agios Fanourios. The ship was sailing…
Every year a group of strong, energetic, fun-loving women head for Wild Coast beaches in the joyful Wild Women on the Run adventure run and this year they have made a calendar to capture the run’s sense of freedom. The four-day run is the…
WHEN scouting around an area that you are both familiar and unfamiliar with, it is magical to grasp the possibilities such a place has to offer – this perfect playground for any adventure racer is the Transkei. The true beauty of the…
