NSRI Port Alfred coxswain Keryn Van der Walt was on her private boat on the river at the time and went over to help. She managed to get two of the crew off the boat and started emergency medical ...

NSRI Port Alfred duty crew were activated at about 6:30am following reports of a boat capsized in the Kowie River mouth (harbour entrance), NSRI Port Alfred duty coxswain Keryn van der Walt said.

The town, established by British settlers in the early 1820s, has retained much of its English fishing village character ...

Port Alfred - A man drowned after the boat he was skippering capsized in the surf while leaving the Kowie River mouth at Port Alfred on Saturday morning, the National Sea Rescue Institute (NSRI ...

The Kowie River at Port Alfred has a mouth full of many smart houses, wrecked ships and some wistful dreams. But, as Don Pinnock discovered, there are older and wilder things up around the bend.

The 94km river snakes through Eastern Cape and flows into the Indian Ocean at the small town of Port Alfred.

Analysis - Respected South African academic and author Jacklyn Cock's deep love for the Kowie river is the key thread that runs throughout her new book, "Writing the Ancestral River". The 94 ...