Email Update

There are many of you that have not yet received answers to your objections or reasons from the Municipality.....FEKRRA are slowly progressing with the Municipality.....Water restrictions have just been announced

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Protect the Beach Drive

On Friday 18th December 2009 we are holding a “Protect the Beach Drive” and invite you all to come and help. We will be cutting bush into manageable sections, dragging it onto the beach and anchoring it into the sand to form windbreaks.

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Email Update

The Reference that the Municipality gave on the Municipal Banking Details does not work and they have admitted this was incorrect. I have now been given an alternative procedure for the reference no

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Discussions with Mayor and MM on 4th November 2009

Joe Oosthuizen: Stated that the Ratepayers were angry and that they wanted to address the cause not the symptoms of the problem. The cause Ratepayers felt was poor management and for this reason Ratepayers felt that a two day workshop was needed under the direction of an experienced Mediator who could guide the process further.

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Nuclear Press Releases

The Department of Environment and Tourism (DEAT) has accepted the Final Scoping Report for the Environmental Impact Assessment being conducted on the three proposed nuclear sites of Koeberg, Bantamsklip and Thyspunt.

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Beach Report

It is a full 2 years since I first installed the Danish PEM system on our beach. There have been regular GPS surveys done by independent professional surveyors every 2 months during that time to monitor and record the results.

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New Legislation on Property

There was a time when there were advantages in owning a home through a company. Some estate agents motivated the purchase of a home in a company on the grounds that on a resale, the shares and loan accounts in the company could be sold instead of the property

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Village Square Signage

The Residents’ Association has been in disagreement with the Kouga Municiplaity over a number of issues associated with the Village Square development. The Association is now faced with a negative local press.

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Email Update

Thus far an overwhelming majority have voted in favour of a Dispute with the Municipality. To date we have only had 2 people who are not in favour of a Dispute. This has been the trend throughout Kouga.

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Boating Courses Offered

Each course is presented by a fully qualified SAMSA accredited lecturer.  It is always so much easier to interact with someone about the material that needs to be learnt and not simply to try to self-teach a manual handed to you. 

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Orchid - Municipal Repair of burst water pipe

As per our phone call, I would like to record our thanks and congratulations to the stand-by team who repaired a burst water pipe overnight on the night of the 12 October.

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Email Update

We had a very fruitful Public Meeting on Thursday 15th October with the local Residents and it was unanimously decided in favour of Declaring a Dispute against the Municipality

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Email Update

There are many of you that have not yet received answers to your objections or reasons from the Municipality.....FEKRRA are slowly progressing with the Municipality.....Water restrictions have just been announced

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Press Release

Help! Our Rates and Taxes are being wasted.

Ratepayers Associations across the Kouga Municipal area are in agreement on one issue namely, that the Kouga Municipality is being mismanaged and Ratepayers funds are being wasted.

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Results of Beach Survey

The results of the latest survey were presented to the Kouga Municipality on Wednesday the 30th of September where the following points were highlighted:

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Boating Inspections

The following notes are prepared to help people prepare for boating at St Francis Bay. The rules we now have to meet are not new – but they are now being enforced.

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August Beach Report

The weather and sea conditions have at last been favourable enough for Maarschalk and Partners to do a full GPS survey of the beach. The results show that the June storms, and weeks of high seas thereafter, resulted in serious erosion, particularly to the Northern sections

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Beach Gallery

View pictures of the beach erosion from 2008 - Pre storm and Post storm August 2009

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July - Storms Beach Report

A severe winter storm struck the South Eastern Cape Coastline on the 24th of July. The height of waves and severity of winds this July made the August storm of 2008 pale into insignificance. Whereas the wave heights in 2008 were recorded at between 6.5 and 6.8 meters

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Valuations June

Discussions with the Mayor have presented dissatisfied Ratepayers with two options should they not be happy with their new valuations. In instances where the valuer has not taken actual sales in an area into account

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May Beach Report

The latest beach survey done on the 18th of May by independent surveyors, indicates that the beach project appears to be on track. Local residents concur that they have seen a significant increase in the amount of sand on the beach. What did the surveyors find?

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