Press Releases

Clr Daphne Kettlesdas, a well-known educator and seasoned political activist from Humansdorp, is the new Executive Mayor of the Kouga region.

Local and district municipality leaders and Khoisan chiefs gathered in Hankey on Monday (27 April 2015) to condemn the defacing of Sarah Bartmann's gravesite.

Eastern Cape Premier Phumulo Masualle, accompanied by Education MEC Mandla Makupula and Human Settlement MEC Helen Sauls-August, visited Kouga as part of the Eastern Cape Government’s annual Exco Outreach on Friday, 17 April 2015.

Eastern Cape Premier Phumulo Masualle will hold a public meeting at the Humansdorp Country Club on Friday, April 17.

Seven arrests were made and 126 fines totalling more than R80 000 were issued during a joint safety operation in Kouga over the Easter weekend.

Nine unemployed Tourism graduates from Kouga have been given an opportunity to ply their trade at Dolphin Beach in Jeffreys Bay through the Tourism Buddies Programme,

Secretaries of Ward Committees in Kouga sharpened their office skills when they participated in a three-day training workshop organised by the municipality.

An appeal has gone out to businesses, organisations and individuals to help spread warmth to the elderly of Jeffreys Bay this winter.

Kouga-munisipaliteit het aan die einde van Maart 2015 vaarwel gese vir een van sy groot staatmakers, Henry Marais.

The draft operating and capital budgets for 2015/2016 were tabled to the Kouga Council on Tuesday, 31 March 2015.

The causeway between Aston Bay and Paradise Beach, Jeffreys Bay, will open to vehicles tomorrow (1 April 2015).

Municipalities from across the country met in Kouga recently for the quarterly SAMRAS user group meeting.

Kouga Executive Mayor Booi Koerat delivered the State of the Municipality Address at the Opening of Council at Oyster Bay on Friday, 20 March 2015.

Kouga Municipality has responded to the petition submitted by the Jeffreys Bay Residents Association in February 2015.

Thirty-four households in the informal settlement of Umzamowethu at Oyster Bay now boast electricity connections as Kouga Municipality continues its programme of providing legal access to electricity for all.