Author: Kayla Roux

A 25-year-old man collapsed outside the Grahamstown Building Society (GBS) on Hill Street while trying to walk to hospital on Friday 13 September. Bongani Msibi, who works for a local electrical company, said he was on his way to seek medical treatment as he was experiencing severe chest pains.

President Jacob Zuma has sent the Protection of Information Bill, also referred to as the Secrecy Bill, back to the National Assembly.

Seventy people including journalists, medical academics and media studies scholars recently attended by what Discovery Centre for Health Journalism director Prof Harry Dugmore called "the largest gathering of health journalists ever held in South Africa".

Seven people including a toddler were killed when the driver of a car travelling from Port Elizabeth lost control of his vehicle and ploughed into two cars on the N2 near Seven Fountains.

Makana DA Councillor Brian Fargher says that the provincial legislature of the Eastern Cape will debate the water crisis in the Makana Municipal area.

Grahamstown schoolchildren belonging to the Congress of South African Students led a march of more than 10km on Friday 23 August to protest what they see as the biggest problems facing education today.

Rhodes professor Matthew Lester lost his appeal against an order to demolish his R8 million property in Kenton–on-Sea in the Supreme Court of Appeal on Thursday 22 August.

Members of various movements and unions, including SAMWU and the Unemployed People's Movement (UPM), held a protest march against corruption on Wednesday 21 August.

Students were injured in a stampede that broke out at an Intervarsity party on Saturday 17 August.

A fire has broken out at the Grahamstown Dump on Friday 16 August, sending toxic smoke drifting eastwards towards Grahamstown.