Libode is a small town of 5000 inhabitants in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa.

It is situated on the R61 road (future N2 Wild Coast Toll Route) from Port St Johns in the east to Mthatha in the west and serves as the administrative seat of the Nyandeni Local Municipality, which is part of the OR Tambo District Municipality.

[4] In 1940, some Catholic nuns from the Motherhouse St. Ursula in Brig, Switzerland were sent to Libode, which is currently the Ursuline group's main station in the region.

The tornado left 18 people dead, at least 184 injured and damage to property estimated at many millions of Rands.

... President Mandela declared the Libode Magisterial district to be a disaster area in terms of the Fund Raising Act 1978.