Minister’s decision to ditch town’s colonial-era identity and honour anti-apartheid activist divides residents ...

Cornelis Jacob van de Graaff was a Dutch army officer who served as governor of the Cape from 1785 to 1791. In a bid to bolster the colony’s frontier defences, he established the Graaff-Reinet ...

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 ...

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 ...

The nearly 250-year-old town, known for its Cape Dutch architecture and tourism appeal, is among more than 1,500 places renamed since the end of apartheid to shed colonial-era legacies. But here, the ...

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 ...

The renaming of places and institutions in South Africa has been subject to contention, often inspiring claims that renaming ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...