At the end of June 2021, the Overstrand Executive Mayor handed over trays of beetroot, spinach, broccoli and onion seedlings in communities of the Greater Gansbaai area. This will give more residents the opportunity to fight food insecurity by growing food for their families in their own backyard.

Almost 600 community members in Masakhane, Blompark, Pearly Beach and Stanford are beneficiaries of the seedlings for their home gardens.

These include people who have an existing vegetable garden, as well as those who indicated that they would like to start with the One Household one Garden programme. Community gardens also benefited from this handover.

On delivering his speech, Mayor Coetzee emphasised that the Covid-19 virus has had and will, for the foreseeable future, continue to have a devasting impact on the members of our community who, even before the start of the pandemic, found it difficult to put food on the table.

Following the President’s announcement in respect of adjusted level 4 in adherence to workplace regulations, SASSA offices will be operating with a limited staff capacity.

Applications for social grants may be done online https://services.sassa.gov.za/account/register.

Fill out the user registration. Provide your personal details (name, surname, id number, e-mail address and contact number).

For all enquiries please contact Sassa telephonically: Sassa Tol Free: 0800 60 10 11 Sassa Western Cape Customer Care: 021-4690235

Water supply to the Kleinbaai area will be interrupted on Wednesday, 7 July 2021 from 11:00 to 18:00 for maintenance of the water flow meter at the reservoir. I&J and Romansbaai Abalone Farm (not Aquinion as previously mentioned) will also be affected.

Please ensure you have enough water available for the duration of the outage.

Overberg District Vaccination sites (05 - 09 July 2021)

The Western Cape is bringing online more vaccination sites on a weekly basis. This is linked to the supply of vaccines, with deliveries expected on a weekly basis.

The following sites are coming online in your district over the next week.

This is not the final list of sites. We will reshare these graphics as activation dates are confirmed, and as more sites get added.

We kindly ask that you wait for a second SMS before going to a site so that we can prevent long queues and ensure a Covid-19 safe process.

If you decide to go to a vaccination site without  and appointment, we cannot guarantee that you will get a vaccine as those with appointments will be prioritised.