Sid Penney

In November 1964 Syd Alder, owner of Port Alfred’s Langdon Hotel on the west of the Kowie River, invited the Ravens rock band from Grahamstown (now Makhanda) to audition or do trial runs as the hotel resident band for the 1964/1965…

THE VIC SURVIVES: The iconic Victoria Hotel in New Street, Makhanda (Grahamstown), for decades the favourite ‘haunt’ of many a Rhodes University student, was fortunate to survive a fire that ripped through Hotel Victoria Mews at about…

Well, that’s eight days of National Arts Festival done and dusted, as they say, but there’s still another three days of antics and animated action to go in the ‘Festival City’ of Makhanda (Grahamstown). Festival goers and prospective…