This study examined the current plant diversity status and the impact of drivers of change on the Kromme River peatland in the Eastern Cape of South Africa. Plant diversity were quantified using Shannon-Weiner index, while the influence of environmental variables was investigated using multivariate techniques. Land use dynamics were assessed by applying GIS techniques. There were variations in species richness across peat basins(p=0.0008, F = 1241.6).Generally, species were not evenly distributed (p0.21; F = 0.94), since 77.8% of the evenness index were