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Flooding closes roads in Kouga

October 20, 2012

The following roads have been closures in the Kouga

Road news:

1. The Oyster Bay – Humansdorp road is closed.

2. The Oyster Bay – St Francis road is open to 4x4s only, but 4×4 drivers are advised that the road is VERY slippery.

3. Johan Muller Boulevard in Paradise Beach, Jeffreys Bay, is closed.

4. The Loerie road is still closed due to the flooding of the causeways between the Gamtoos Ferry hotel and Loerie. The alternative road is the R330 that one would use to travel from PE to Hankey and Patensie.

Please take care when driving over the weekend.

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Power cuts in Jeffreys Bay tonight

October 9, 2012

The power supply to Jeffreys Bay, including Aston Bay and Paradise Beach, will be off for about two hours from midnight tonight. The Kouga Municipality’s electricity department will be finalising the installation of a new 66kv transformer.

The midnight shutdown was decided on to avoid causing inconvenience to businesses. Please treat all appliances as live during the time period mentioned.

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Chaos in Council meeting

August 31, 2012

The DA caucus decided to walk out of the Kouga Council meeting yesterday after agreeing that the meeting had not been properly advertised to the residents of the area.

According to the Kouga Council’s rules of order, all councillors must be advised of any council meeting at least 72 hours prior to the meeting.

Yet, the Council meeting that was supposed to be held yesterday, was only advertised on Wednesday to the public.

The DA felt that is was unreasonable for residents to be given such a short time period to go through the 300 odd pages in the meeting pack and not be accorded the same respect and time given to the councillors.

To top everything off, the meeting scheduled to start at 11 am, only began at 11.30 am.

The Kouga Democrat will in future also provide details of all council meetings where the public can participate, to ensure the residents of the Kouga stay informed about local government issues.

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Roads closed due to rain

August 8, 2012

The heavy rainfalls experienced over the past few days has caused more damage to the road infrastructure in all the towns in Kouga and more pot holes have appeared, particularly in St Francis Bay and Jeffreys Bay.

Aapies Draai was closed yesterday afternoon to traffic and it still closed this morning. Aston bay residents have been particularly hard hit with the latest rains as Dolphin Drive as well as Swan Road (two of the main access roads) have huge potholes and have become unsafe to drive on, especially at night.

Elsewhere in the Kouga, both roads to Oyster bay were closed yesterday due to the roads becoming dangerous for motorists to drive on.

The following roads and mountain passes in South Africa are closed to traffic due to severe weather:

1. Eastern Cape – R61 Route, ROAD CLOSED between Queenstown and Cofimvaba due to snow / ice

2. Eastern Cape – N9 Route, ROAD OPEN between Graaff-Reinet and Middelburg -Lootsberg Pass

3. Eastern Cape – R61 Route, ROAD OPEN between Graaff-Reinet and Cradock – Wapadsberg Pass

4. Western Cape – ROADS CLOSED between Ashton & Montague, Montague & Touwsrivier, Prince Albert & Oudtshoorn, and Montague & Oudtshoorn – Snowfall

5. Eastern Cape- ROAD CLOSED between Whittlesea and Seymour – Nico Malan Pass – Snowfall

6. Eastern Cape – ROAD CLOSED between Elliot and Barkly East – Barkly Pass – Snowfall

7. Kwazulu Natal – ROAD CLOSED AGAIN KZN / Free State N3 Route, Van Reenens Pass – Snowfall.

8. Free State – R712 Route, ROAD CLOSED between Qwa-Qwa and Clarens due to snow

9. Western Cape – R328 Swartberg Pass, ROAD CLOSED between Oudtshoorn and Prince Albert due to snow

10. Western Cape – R62 Route, ROAD CLOSED between Ashton and Montagu due to flooding

11. Free State – R74 Route, ROAD CLOSED – Oliviershoek Pass between Harrismith and Bergville due to snow

12. KZN – R617 Route, ROAD CLOSED between Swartberg and Underberg due to #snow

13. KZN / Eastern Cape – N2 Route, ROAD CLOSED between Kokstad and Mount Ayliff due to snow

14. Free State – R34 Route, ROAD CLOSED between Vrede and Memel due to snow (note: this is a Van Reenens Pass closure detour route)

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Flood damage in Kouga

July 16, 2012

There has been a lot of damage to roads in the Kouga over the weekend and people have been evacuated from their homes in low laying areas. Here is the latest update:

ROAD CLOSURES:

1. Oyster Bay to Humansdorp: CLOSED. Alternative route – Elandsjag/Tandjieskraal

2. Oyster Bay to St Francis Bay: Bakkies and 4x4s only

3. R102 between old Gamtoos bridge and Thornhill: Rocks and trees being cleared from the road. The road is open and traffic officers are on duty to direct traffic.

4. R102 west of Humansdorp: Also busy with rock-clearing on the road but the road is open to traffic.

5. R330 between Weston and Hankey: Closed.

SAND RIVER BRIDGE TO ST FRANCIS

The water level has subsided and the bridge is open to light vehicles only at this stage. Only one lane. No heavy vehicles will be allowed to cross until further notice.

DAM LEVELS AND WARNINGS

Kouga Dam 107%

Loerie Dam 104%

Churchill Dam 106,5%

Mpofu Dam 105,6%

The Kouga Dam has been opened. The overflow has reached Andrieskraal and is moving towards Hankey. People in low-lying areas close to the river are asked to be careful as there might be flooding.

The Churchill Dam and Mpofu Dam have also been opened. People along that route (Elandsjag towards Oyster Bay and St Francis where the water exists into the Kromme River) are also just warned to be careful as there might be flooding.

The police are on alert to assist. Phone them on 10111 or via the municipality’s emergency nr 042 291 0250.

The Churchill Dam

ELECTRICITY

Electricity has been restored to all parts of Humansdorp.

It is only sections of Tokyo Sexwale in Jeffreys Bay that is still without power but the municipality’s electricity team is busy replacing the transformer.

EVACUATIONS

Thornhill: About 70 people have been moved to the community hall

Stofwolk (Hankey): About 60 people moved to the hall

Greenfields (Loerie): About 30 people moved to the hall

Sea Vista (St Francis): 73 people moved to the hall

Many houses – formal and informal – are flooded across Kouga but the municipality’s technical teams are busy trying to divert the water and/or helping people pump water from their houses.

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Tsitsi Karoo to meet on Saturday

July 5, 2012

The entire DA structure in Kouga, Baviaans and Kou Kamma will be meeting on Saturday in Joubertina.

Items on the agenda include the state of roads in the region as well as education. The DA held a march in Jeffreys Bay on 16 June to demand a better education for all.

Elza van Lingen, the DA’s parliamentarian will also address the meeting.

Support for the DA is continually growing in the region as voters are realizing that the infrastructure in the towns of Jeffreys Bay, Kareedouw, Joubertina, St Francis Bay and Patensie are all crumbling under ANC rule.

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DA Councillors to attend portfolio committee meetings

June 19, 2012

The DA Councillors will be attending portfolio committee meetings over the next two days at the Municipal offices in da Gama Road.

The Finance committee as well as Infrastructure will meet today, while the rest of the committees will meet tomorrow.

The Councillors serving on the Finance committee have their work cut out for them as the finances of the Kouga remain in a critical condition.

Even with the 10 % impairment for bad debts agreed to at the last Council meeting, it will be difficult for the municipality to match the projected income against the expected expenditure in the 2012/13 financial year.

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Municipal workers outraged over non payment of Pension fund contributions

May 14, 2012

A crises is developing in Jeffreys Bay this morning as Municipal employees have locked themselves into the yard in St Croix Street and are not working.

Essential services like sewage disposal are therefore not functioning today and the most recent sewage spill at Koraal Street will not be sorted out this morning.

The DA Councillors are monitoring the situation closely and have been able to ascertain that the workers have taken action due to the non payment of their pension fund contributions. The DA brought the matter of non payment of Kouga staff pension fund contributions to the Police, the Audit General as well as the media last week.

According to a worker who did not want to be named, the employees have requested a meeting with the Municipal Manager, Mr Fadi, to discuss the situation.

At this stage the action by the Kouga Municipal employees is regarded as a go slow and not as a strike.

The DA will keep residents informed as soon as more information is available.

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No water in Wavecrest

May 13, 2012

The Municipality is hard at work repairing burst water pipes in Wavecrest. Three pipes burst last night and will be fixed this morning.

Water was cut in the Oribi Street area of Wavecrest earlier today and the pipe there is in the process of being fixed.

Thereafter the Municipal maintenance team will switch off water in the Spekboom area of Wavecrest to repair the remaining burst pipes.

Ageing pipes are to blame for the damage and the Municipality regrets any inconvenience to residents.

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Kontak ons Raadslede

May 2, 2012

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