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We urge all residents to please fill out the IDP Needs Assessment Form for 2022/2027. This is to determine the top priorities in each ward for the next five years. The closing date for input from residents is at 12:00 on Tuesday, March 8.

TEN viable boreholes will be connected in areas worse affected by the drought to help mitigate the effect of the prolonged drought. This after one more borehole at Jeugkamp in Humansdorp was connected to the existing water treatment works earlier this month.

TAPS in Humansdorp are set to run dry should residents not drastically safe water with immediate effect.

Kouga Municipality has recently joined hands with One Village, a non-profit organisation founded by Sonya Hofler and Evelyn Markides in Jeffreys Bay, in a bid to help empower less fortunate residents. As part of their Mandela Day campaign, the municipality purchased 67 R5 Ticket Books to assist those in need. Each booklet contains 20 tickets valued at R5 each, which recipients can redeem at the One Village Shop in Jeffreys Street – either for a meal or a previously loved item. Kouga Executive Mayor, Horatio Hendricks (middle) received his booklet from Markides (left) and Hofler (right) at the organisation’s food garden in Jeffreys Bay.

Residents and stakeholders have been invited to submit inputs and comments on the Kouga Municipality’s Integrated Development Plan (IDP) for the 2020/ 2021 financial year. The date for inputs and comments have been extended and residents and stakeholders now have until Friday, 12 March 2021 to submit comments.

SHAVE . . . spray . . . and donate – all while being colourfully loud. And it is all for a good cause.

THERE has been a slight increase in the number of active COVID-19 infections in the Kouga region.

Residents and stakeholders have been invited to submit comments on the Kouga Municipality’s draft Integrated Development Plan (IDP) for the 2020/2021 financial year.

The Kouga Municipality and Eskom’s geyser control project, currently being implemented in Humansdorp, St Francis Bay and Jeffreys Bay to help manage electricity demand during evening peak time, has been completed successfully.

Two schools in Kouga are now able to assist some of their less privileged pupils with school uniforms and stationery items, thanks to a campaign by the Kouga Municipality.

REPAIRS to the causeway between Aston Bay and Paradise Beach at Jeffreys Bay commenced on 11 February 2015.

Kouga Municipality has achieved an unqualified audit outcome for the 2013/2014 financial year.

Four Kouga residents with disabilities came back as certified artisans from a training programme offered by the Department of Social Development for people with disabilities in November.

YOUNG men and women from the Saldanha Military Academy visited Jeffreys Bay in November as part of their annual Exercise Trans Enduro programme.

SOME of the biggest names in the Eastern Cape visited Kouga in November to launch the 16 Days of Activism for No Violence against Women and Children campaign.