The publication
About The Coastal
The Coastal is an independent digital newsroom covering the towns, cities and shoreline of South Africa’s Eastern Cape coast. We report on local government, business, the environment and the people who live beside the sea.
We are built to read like a newspaper: serious journalism, strong photography, and a clear line between news and opinion. We work from the public record — council papers, budgets, tenders, audits — so readers can see what local power is doing in their name.
AI may help us read documents and draft. It never publishes. Every claim is checked against a source, and a human editor signs off every story. How we work is set out in our editorial policy.
Based in KuGompo City, along the Eastern Cape coast. Written for the people who live here, and for those who care what happens next.
