Author: Marillia Veldkornet
2 June 2023 Media Release: Garden Route District Municipality celebrates Archives Week
Media Release: Garden Route District Municipality celebrates Archives Week, 5 – 9 June 2023
For immediate release
02 June 2023
Leave No One Behind: Archives in the Era of Artificial Intelligence
Archives and Records Management functions and processes are essentially necessary, and it helps the Municipality to keep track of the information it creates and needs.
These processes also help to ensure that information is stored in an organised manner so that it can be retrieved when needed.
To comply with relevant legislation, the Garden Route District Municipality disposes of, and transfers all records every year. The Municipality recently undertook a Records Clean-Up Project for which 3 unemployed youth were assigned to assist.
The Municipality also conducted records management information sessions with departments to ensure that all records are centralised for easy retrieval.
The Municipality will, therefore, continue to encourage GRDM staff to send records to the registry section for processing and safekeeping in accordance with good governance practices.
The Western Cape Archives and Records Service would like to invite everyone interested to attend the National Archives Awareness Week Launch ONLINE on Friday 2 June 2023, 11:00-13:00, ahead of Archives Week, 5-9 June 2023.
Interested staff members are invited to attend/log into any of the workshops, at: https://forms.gle/TjKBYTaZjXujWTHXA
No Good Governance without a proper Records Management System.
ENDS
23 May 2023 Impact-Based Severe Weather Warning: Level 2 for Damaging Waves
Impact-Based Severe Weather Warning: Level 2 for Damaging Waves
The Cape Town Weather Office has issued an Impact Based Warning for damaging waves valid from 25 to 26 May 2023.
Areas in the Garden Route district that will be affected by damaging waves include Bitou, George, Hessequa, Knysna and Mossel Bay.
Legal notice:
“This warning from SA Weather Service must be communicated as received and may not be altered under any circumstance.
It must be forwarded or communicated in its entirety and no portion hereof may be replicated or copied and distributed.”
Report weather-related incidents to the Garden Route Disaster Management Centre at 044 805 5071.