News

For your convenience, we’ve listed all our media releases and statements, public notices and other media-related information on this page in chronological order.

Local Government News
- 3 June 2023 Impact-Based Severe Weather Warning: Level 2 for Damaging Waves & Winds
- 2 June 2023 Media Release: Garden Route District Municipality celebrates Archives Week
- 02 June 2023 Public Notice: Special Council Meeting – 09 June 2023 at 09:00
- 01 June 2023 Impact-Based Severe Weather Warning: Level 2 for Damaging Waves
- 31 May is World No Tobacco Day
- 30 May 2023 Media Release: Employee Wellness Day at GRDM Head Office
- 30 May 2023 Media Release: GRDM Annual Records Clean-Up project underway
- 30 May 2023 Budget Speech by the Executive Mayor of Garden Route District Municipality
- 30 May 2023 Media Release: Alderlady Ndayi supports Early Childhood Development in Kurland
- 24 May 2023 Training Opportunities: 120 Patrol Officer Learning Opportunities Across the Garden Route
- 23 May 2023 Impact-Based Severe Weather Warning: Level 2 for Damaging Waves
- 22 May 2023 Save the Date: Notice of Council Meeting, 30 May 2023 at 10:00
- 19 May 2023 Media Release: Challenges and Solutions: Minister Kubayi Engages with Local Officials and Communities
- 17 May 2023 Media Release: Garden Route and Klein Karoo Tourism Office elevates the region at the 2023 Africa Indaba Show
- 16 May 2023 Opportunities: Construction Management Systems Training for Grades 5-8 Women-owned Businesses
- 15 May 2023 Update two (2): Gwaing Road (DR1618) Rehabilitation on schedule
- 15 May 2023 Media Release: Indaba to reflect on invasive alien plant management and control scenarios
- 15 May 2023 Media Release: Informal settlements remain a priority – 1700 Smoke alarms installed to date
- 12 May 2023 Media Release: Fire Awareness session done at the “Draadkar” Festival in Hoogekraal
- 12 May 2023 Media Release: GRDM empowers employees on Labour related matters that could be experienced in the workplace
- 12 May 2023 Media Release: Update 3 on the construction of the GRDM Fire Station
- Impact-Based Severe Weather Warnings: Level 3 Disruptive Rain, Level 2 Damaging Winds and Level 2 Damaging Waves
- 09 May 2023 Media Release: GRDM Appoints Rian Boshoff as its New Chief Financial Officer
- Impact-Based Severe Weather Warning: Level 2 for Damaging Waves
- 10 May 2023 Media Release: GRDM adopts its Workplace Skills Plan
- 8 May 2023 Media Release: Garden Route District Firefighters participate in the International Firefighters Day event
- 5 May 2023 Media Release: Garden Route DM Employees Step Up and Support Slipper Day
- 02 May 2023 Public Notice: Special Council Meeting – 09 May 2023 at 11:00
- 24 April 2023 Media Release: Preparing for a changing climate indicates that all is not bad news for the Southern Cape
- CLOSURE OF OFFICES, FRIDAY, 28 APRIL 2023
- 21 April 2023 Cape EAPrac: Public Participation Process
- 21 April 2023 Media Release: 125 Homeless people attend health education session at George Night Shelter
- 20 April 2023 Impact Based Severe Weather Warning: Level 2 for Damaging Winds
- SPECIAL COUNCIL MEETING at 20 April 2023 at 10:00
- 11 April 2023 Media Release: HWSETA Provincial Manager visits Garden Route DM
- 11 April 2023 Media Release: Awareness about Clean Air a priority for Garden Route DM
- 05 April 2023 PUBLIC NOTICE: GRDM OFFICE CLOSURE
- 05 April 2023 Impact Based Severe Weather Warning: Veld Fire Conditions
- 29 March 2023 Media Release: Garden Route District Municipality supports Western Cape Government’s Water Awareness Campaign in Kannaland
- 27 March 2023 Media Release: Fire Emergency Evacuation Drill Training conducted at the Frail Care Centre
- 24 March 2023 Media Release: GRDM Municipal Manager and officials welcome interns to the organisation
- 23 March 2023 Impact Based Warning – Level 2 for Damaging Winds
- 22 March 2023 Media release: Garden Route District hosts its 2nd Safer Schools Conference
- 22 March 2023 Save the Date: Notice of Council Meeting, 28 March 2023 at 10:00
- 18 March 2023 Public Notice: Closure of Garden Route District Municipal Offices, 20 March 2023
- 17 March 2023 Media Release: Update 2 on the construction of the Garden Route District Municipality Fire Station
- 17 March 2023 Media Release: Oudtshoorn Air Quality rated the best in Africa
- 17 March 2023 Media Release: Waste Management Licence for construction of the GRDM Regional Waste Management Facility extended with 10 years
- 16 March 2023 Public Notice: ALIENATION OF COUNCIL PROPERTIES
- 16 March 2023 Media Release: GRDM donates mattresses to Early Childhood Development facilities in Hessequa
- 14 March 2023 Media Statement: GRDM Council takes action to protect the institution’s reputation and that of MM Monde Stratu
- 14 March 2023 Media Release: Establishment of a Community Safety Forum for the Greater Oudtshoorn
- 13 March 2023 Impact Based Warning – Level 2 for Damaging Winds
- SPECIAL COUNCIL MEETING at 14 March 2023 at 11:00
- 10 March 2023 Media Release: Load shedding relief: GRDM receives R1.6 million for generators from the WC Government
- 9 March 2023 Statement: Legal action against Garden Route DM Municipal Manager a distraction from ongoing discussions between municipalities
- 7 March 2023 Alert: Garden Route Water Security Workshop is underway
- ALERT: CALITZDORP HOT SPRINGS TEMPORARILY CLOSED DUE TO FLOODS
- 03 March 2023 Media Release: The effect of loadshedding on Water Quality
- 01 March 2023 Media Release: Nishendra Moodley begins leadership role at the EDP
- 01 March 2023 Media Release: Cater Care Training Programme graduates another successful group
- 01 March 2023 Media Release: The Connected Economy – A Priority Focus Area for the Garden Route Skills Mecca
- 28 February 2023 Public Notice: 2022/23 Fourth Adjustment Budget – Approved 27 February 2023
- 28 February 2023 Media Release: Garden Route DM to partner with Tacoma Sister Cities from the USA
- 21 February 2023 Save the Date: Notice – Council Meeting, 27 February 2023 at 11:00
- 18 February 2023 Media Release: Measles Awareness Session Held at Rosemore Crèche in George to Promote Prevention Measures
- 14 Febuary 2023 Media Release: Garden Route Growth and Development Strategy Implementation Plan now in place
- 13 February 2023 Media Release: GRDM rolling out R67 million Gwaing Road construction project
- 10 February 2023 Save the Date: Garden Route District Municipality to embark on an Illegal Dumping Campaign
- 8 February 2023 Media Release: Construction of the new Garden Route District Municipality Fire Station underway
- 7 February 2022 Media Release: Garden Route DM continues to assist local municipalities with loadshedding impacts
- 31 January 2023 Public Notice: Garden Route District Municipality telephones offline
- 31 January 2023 Media Release: A positive turnout for GRDM Coastal Resorts over the holiday season
- 30 January 2023: Notice – Third Adjustment Budget 2022/2023 Approved
- Executive Mayor, Ald. Memory Booysen’s speech during an Ordinary Council meeting on 30 January 2023
- 27 January 2023 Media Release: Garden Route District Municipality donates mattresses to Kleine Handjies Crèche in Uniondale
- 25 January 2023 Notice: Council Meeting – 30 January 2023 at 10:00
- 16 January 2023 Media Release: A Catalyst for Positive Change in Senior Management – ILGM to play a central role
- 13 January 2023 Media Release: GRDM CFO spreads his wings to join an International Software Investment company
- Special Council Meeting at 10h00 on 13 January 2023
- 25 December 2022 𝗠𝗘𝗥𝗥𝗬 𝗖𝗛𝗥𝗜𝗦𝗧𝗠𝗔𝗦!
- 17 December 2022 Media Release: Food safety during load shedding
- 16 December 2022 Media Release: No Pets Allowed – The Rules for Food Premises
- Promo Article: Movie nights at De Hoek Mountain Resort and Calitzdorp Hot Springs
- CLOSURE OF OFFICES THURSDAY, 15 DECEMBER AT 12:00
- Executive Mayor, Ald. Memory Booysen’s speech during an Ordinary Council meeting on 14 December 2022
- 14 December 2022 Impact Based Warning – Level 6 Severe Thunderstorms
- 13 December 2022 Impact Based Warning – L3 Severe Thunderstorms
- 12 December 2022 Media Release: Media Release: Cater Care students ready to gain practical experience
- 13 December 2022 Media Release: Resource management, land restoration and legislation take centre stage in the Garden Route
- 9 December 2022 Impact Based Warning – L3 & L5 Severe Thunderstorms
- 9 December 2022 Media Release: GRDM Integrated Human Settlements Strategic Plan to be enhanced
- 9 December 2022 Media Release: Garden Route DM is installing 700 smoke detectors in Kannaland
- 9 December 2022 Media Release: GRDM is gearing up for the SUMMER SEASON!
- 09 December 2022 Media Release: The effects of drought growing and prolonged electricity disruptions are increasing
- 2022 12 08 Media Statement 5: The majority of beaches have been cleaned of hydrocarbon oil drops
- 8 December 2022 Save the Date: Notice – Council Meeting on 14 December 2022 at 10:00
- 8 December 2022: Special Council Meeting at 15h00
- 5 December 2022 Media Statement 4: Several beaches given the ‘green light’
- 5 December 2022 Public Notice: GRDM Strategic Engagement Session at Swartvlei Caravan Park – 9 December 2022
- 05 December 2022 WELCOME TO THE GARDEN ROUTE AND KLEIN KAROO, SOUTH AFRICA’S MOST BEAUTIFUL AREA
- 2 December 2022 Media Statement 3: Beach monitoring and clean-up activities continue along the Garden Route coastline
- 2 December 2022 Media Release: LGSETA conducts another due diligence visit at GRDM
- 2 December 2022 Media Release: Another clean audit for Garden Route DM – a promise kept!
- 01 December 2022 Mayor’s World Aids Day Message – Alderman Memory Booysen
- 01 December 2022 Impact Based Weather Warning: Damaging Winds – 02/12/2022
- 1 December 2022 Media Statement 2: Several beaches re-opened while some still being cleaned from stranded oil
- 01 December 2022 Save the Date: Public Notice – Combined MPAC & APAC Meeting – 02/12/2022 at 09:00
- 01 December 2022 Save the Date: Notice – Municipal Public Accounts Committee – 06/12/2022 at 16h00
- Impact Based Weather Warning: Veldfire Conditions from 30/11/2022 to 01/12/2022
- 30 November 2022 Media Statement 1: Clean-up of Garden Route beaches underway
- 30 November 2022 Media Release: GRDM De Hoek Mountain Resort transitioning to a green accommodation facility
- Impact Based Weather Warning: Veldfire Conditions from 28 to 29/11/2022
- 28 November 2022 Media Release: GRDM and stakeholders launch 16 Days of Activism Campaign against Gender-Based-Violence in Thembalethu
- 24 November 2022 Public Notice: PUBLICATION OF INFORMATION STATEMENT REGARDING THE RAISING OF EXTERNAL LOAN FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF GRDM REGIONAL WASTE MANAGEMENT FACILITY OVER THE 2022/23 – 2024/25 MTREF PERIOD
- Impact Based Weather Warning – Yellow level 1: Damaging Winds on 23 November 2022
- Impact Based Weather Warning – Veld Fire Conditions on 23 November 2022
- 22 November 2022 Media Release: EHPs working around the clock to address the Scabies outbreak
- 22 November 2022: Notice – Second Adjustment Budget 2022/2023 Approved
- 18 November 2022 Media Relese: Garden Route District Municipality supports Thembalethu Neighbourhood Watch
- 15 November 2022 Save the Date: Notice – Special Council Meeting on 21 November 2022 at 10:00
- 14 November 2022 Media Release: Tourism sector recovery in the spotlight
- 14 November 2022 Impact Based Weather Warning – Veldfire Conditions – Valid 15/11/2022
- 11 November 2022 Public Notice: IDP/BUDGET AND PMS REPRESENTATIVE FORUM MEETING
- Join our Garden Route Skills Mecca Quarterly Stakeholder Engagement on 18 November 2022
- 4 November 2022 Media Release: State-of-the-Art Regional Fire Station expected by June 2023
- 4 November 2022 Media Release: Calitzdorp Natural Hot Springs Resort
- 2 November 2022 Impact Based Weather Warning – Severe Thunderstorms
- 2 November 2022 Save the Date: Continuation of Council Meeting – 7/11/2022 at 9:00
- 31 October 2022 Impact Based Weather Warning – Severe Thunderstorms
- 28 October 2022 Save the Date: MPAC Meeting on 31 October 2022 at 10:00 am
- 27 October 2022 Media Release: Do you meet the standards for food premises?
- 26 October 2022 Media Release: Kids from Plett Primary School reminded of the importance of clean hands
- Executive Mayor, Ald. Memory Booysen’s speech during an Ordinary Council meeting on 25 October 2022
- 20 October 2022 Media Release: Take action during Breast Cancer Awareness month
- 20 October 2022 Media Release: GRDM Executive Mayor wishes the matric class of 2022 the best of luck!
- 19 October 2022 Media Release: Great attendance by staff at second GRDM Employee Wellness Day for the year
- 19 October 2022 Media Release: Garden Route domestic tourism trip attended by Journalists and Bloggers
- 19 October 2022 Save the Date: Notice – District Council Meeting on 25 October 2022 at 11h00
- 18 October 2022 Financial Assistance towards Further Studies 2023
- 14 October 2022 Media Release: Health Education Committee invited to witness youth who dance with ‘change in mind’
- 13 October 2022 Garden Route District Municipality Notice: 13/2022
- 13 October 2022 Media Release: GRDM Disaster Management Section developed a GreenBook to plan for future climate change
- 7 October 2022 Media Release: Former Garden Route District Municipality Senior Firefighter, Denver Moses, passes away
- 6 October 2022 Media Release: Environmental Health Practitioners educate communities in celebration of World Environmental Health Day
- 30 September 2022 Media Release: Garden Route Skills Mecca Technicians warmly welcomed by Municipal Manager
- Wrap-up of today’s Environmental Health Day talks by the Executive Manager of Community Services, Clive Africa
- An Environmental Health Practitioner (EHP) explains our role in the Disposal of the Dead
- Prevention and surveillance of Communicable Diseases by Environmental Health Practitioners
- Illegal dumping and its impacts on the health and environment (and our water)
- 26 September 2022 Impact Based Severe Weather Warning: Damaging Winds
- A snapshot of Vector Control – a function of Environmental Health Practitioners
- The importance of washing hands
- A snapshot of Food Control done by Environmental Health Practitioners
- A snapshot of sampling done by Environmental Health Practitioners
- Theme for World Environmental Health Day
- What is Environmental Health?
- World Environmental Health Day Webinar on 26 September 2022
- 21 September 2022 Media Release: Garden Route District Municipality Firefighters deliver outstanding performance at TFA-SA
- 21 September 2022 Impact Based Severe Weather Warning: Veld Fire Conditions
- 21 September 2022 Media Release: Garden Route District Municipality celebrates Public Service Month through Service Delivery presentations
- 15 September 2022 Media Release: Garden Route District Municipality EHPs conduct health and hygiene education sessions in Kranshoek, Bitou
- 13 September 2022 Media Release: Environmental Health Practitioners monitor river water quality
- 12 September 2022 Media Release: GRDM faced with another tragic loss – Adri Miles passes away
- 05 September 2022 Impact Based Severe Weather Warning: Damaging Winds and Veld Fire Conditions
- 2 September 2022 Media Release: GRDM is gearing up for Public Service Month: Walk-the-Talk
- 2 September 2022 Impact Based Severe Weather Warning: Damaging Winds
- 2 September 2022 Media Release: The Garden Route District Municipality launches its electronic job application system
- Public Notice: Revised 2022-2027 IDP Process Plan including IDP/Budget and PMS Time Schedule for 2023/24 IDP Review & 2021/2022 Draft Unaudited Annual Report
- 1 September 2022 Impact Based Severe Weather Warning: Veld Fire Conditions
- 1 September 2022 Media Release: GRDM celebrates Public Service, Heritage and Tourism months – All in one
- 31 August 2022 Media Release: Social Housing Event – Own Haven Housing Association Introduced to Stakeholders
- 31 August 2022 Impact Based Severe Weather Warning: Damaging Winds
- 30 August 2022 Media Release: GRDM Councillors and officials visit establishments in the Hessequa area
- 29 August 2022 Notice of a combined APAC/MPAC meeting on 29 August 2022 at 09h00
- 27 August 2022 Media Release: The GRDM salutes a true public servant
- 27 August 2022 Media Release: LGSETA DISCRETIONARY GRANT 2022/23 ALLOCATIONS FOR GARDEN ROUTE DISTRICT MUNICIPALITY
- 25 August 2022 Media Release: 35 Learners from Garden Route district to gain practical experience at local municipalities
- ROLL-OVER ADJUSTMENT BUDGET 2022/2023
- 24 August 2022 Public Notice: Garden Route District Municipality, through the Cater Care (Food Handler) Training Programme – Call for Applications
- 23 August 2022 Impact Based Severe Weather Warning: Veld Fire Conditions
- 22 August 2022 Public Notice: SMME Support and Development Programme Garden Route District Municipality Call for Business Proposals
- 19 August 2022 Media Release: GRDM and LGSETA New Venture Creation Learnership classes conclude
- 19 August 2022 Save the Date: Notice – Council Meeting – 24 August 2022 – 11:00
- 17 August 2022 Impact Based Severe Weather Warning: Damaging Winds
- 16 August 2022 Impact Based Severe Weather Warning: Damaging Winds and Disruptive Rain
- Join our Garden Route Skills Mecca Quarterly Stakeholder Engagement on 25 August 2022
- 15 August 2022 Media Release: Another successful Echo Outdoor Gathering event hosted at Calitzdorp Hot Springs
- 11 August 2022 Public Notice: Comment – Public Participation for the Garden Route Coastal Management Programme – Closing 20 August 2022
- 11 August 2022 Media Release: GRDM Fire Fighting Training accreditation – check marked
- 2022 Women’s Day message from the GRDM Speaker, Ald. Georlene Wolmarans
- Public Notice: Performance Agreements 2022/23 approved
- 5 August 2022 Media Release: GRDM Firefighters perform well at the Dräger Fire Combat & Rescue Challenge
- 5 August 2022 Media Release: GRDM Executive Mayor welcomes newly appointed District Commissioner of SAPS to the Garden Route district
- 3 August 2022 Media Release: Informal Traders Conference for informal businesses hosted in the Garden Route
- 02 August 2022 Media Release: Women’s Month launched at Garden Route DM – every single effort will make a difference, no matter how small
- 26 July 2022 Media Release: Western Cape Government hands over Construction Graders worth R9.4 million to GRDM
- 26 July 2022 Media Release: HealthNET Pilot Project Garden Route improves access to care
- 26 July 2022 Media Release: Garden Route District Municipality’s role in managing of human remains
- 20 July 2022 Save the Date: Council Meeting – 27 July 2022 at 11:00 am
- 20 July 2022 Media Release: “Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.”
- 19 July 2022 Media Release: A healthy life for all
- 13 July 2022 Media Release: GRDM Environmental Health Practitioners annually ensures Knysna Oyster Festival safe
- 12 July 2022 Media Release: Health Surveillance of Premises – places of public gatherings
- 12 July 2022 Media Release: Blanco health outreach to youth
- 11 July 2022 Media Release: Partnership between GRDM, Wesgro, SATSA, FEDHASA and Local Tourism Offices – Destination Marketing Organisation Launch
- 11 July 2022 Impact Based Weather Warnings for Western Cape and Namaqua: Yellow level 2: Damaging Waves 12/07/2022 – 14/07/2022
- 6 July 2022 PUBLIC NOTICE: DELAY IN SWITCHOVER OF TELEPHONE SERVICES AT GRDM GEORGE OFFICES
- 6 July 2022 Media Release: Calitzdorp Hot Springs to host a Music, Arts, and Food Gathering with a purpose
- 5 July 2022 PUBLIC NOTICE: Interruption of GRDM telephone services on 6 July 2022
- 1 July 2022 Media Release: The South African Police Service and Garden Route District Municipality host Anti-Crime Summit
- 1 July 2022 Public Notice: Opening of Saasveld Road
- 01 July 2022 Media Release: Garden Route District Municipality launches electronic job application platform
- 30 June 2022 Media Release: Bojanala Platinum DM pays a visit to Garden Route DM to benchmark emergency-related services
- 30 June 2022 Media Release: Food safety during load shedding
- 29 June 2022 Media Release: GRDM acknowledges Health and Safety Representatives for their dedicated and loyal service
- 28 June 2022 Media Release: Expanded Public Works Programme (EPWP) and SASSETA visit GRDM
- 28 June 2022 Media Statement: Auditor General clarifies ambiguous reporting
- 27 June 2022 Media Release: GRDM Environmental Health Practitioners and stakeholders perform collaborative Spaza Blitz in areas of Knysna
- 23 June 2022 Media Release: Latest COVID – 19 regulations Vol 684 published 22 June 2022, in the Government Gazette No 11447
- 23 June 2022 Public Notice: GRDM 2022/2023 Top Layer Service Delivery Budget Implementation Plan (SDBIP) approved
- 22 June 2022 Media Release: First phase of the Regional Waste Management Facility scheduled to conclude by 30 June 2023
- 22 June 2022 Media Release: Chairperson appointed to the GRDM APAC
- 22 June 2022 Impact Based Weather Warning for Disruptive Rain: 23/06/2022 – 24/06/2022
- 22 June 2022 Media Release: Garden Route District sources smoke detectors for Qolweni and Bossiesgif
- 22 June 2022 Media release: Name and logo of Calitzdorp Spa changed to Calitzdorp Hot Springs
- 22 Junie 2022 Persvrystelling: Naam en kenteken van Calitzdorp Spa verander na Calitzdorp Warmbron
- 20 June 2022 Media Release: Environmental management and climate change under the spotlight at Garden Route Indaba
- 20 June 2022 Save the Date: Council Meeting – 22 June 2022 at 11:00
- 17 Junie 2022 Media regstelling: Netwerk24 Artikel
- 17 June 2022 Media Release: World Day to combat desertification and drought: Blossom’s Emergency Pipeline Project
- 16 June 2022 Today is Youth Day – Let’s all lead by example
- 15 June 2022 Save the Date: Special Council Meeting – 17 June 2022 at 11:00
- 15 June 2022 Media Release: Oral health is important
- 14 June 2022 Public Notice: Notice of Public Participation for the Garden Route District Coastal Management Programme
- 14 June 2022 Media Release: Update 3 – Status of Saasveld Road (George) Construction (MR355)
- 14 June 2022 Continuation of Special Council Meeting – 17 June 2022
- 13 June 2022 Media Release: GRDM Council and Staff mourns the sudden passing of an iron lady, Alderlady Mercia Draghoender
- 13 June 2022 Media Release: Garden Route Skills Mecca Focuses on Renewable Energy
- 13 June 2022 Opportunities For Unemployed Youth in the Western Cape
- 10 June 2022 IDP Summary now available for public viewing
- 10 June 2022 Impact Based Weather Warning: Damaging Winds 12/06/2022 – 14/06/2022
- 10 June 2022 Public Notice: Draft Service Delivery and Budget Implementation Plan for the 2022/2023 Financial year is open for public comment
- 9 June 2022 Media Release: Series of cold fronts headed for South Africa
- 8 June 2022 Public Notice: 2022-2027 District IDP/Budget and PMS Process Plan and District Section 27 Framework
- 3 June 2022 Media Release: Officials from Garden Route District Municipality celebrate Employee Wellness Day – 30 employees donated blood!
- 02 June 2022 Media Release: Crèche surprised with mattress donations by Garden Route District Municipality
- 2 June 2022 Save the Date: Continuation of a Council Meeting – 07 June 2022 at 09:00
- 1 June 2022 Media Release: Environmental Health Practitioners focus on restaurants about safe food handling
- 31 May 2022 Media Release: 32 Small Businesses benefitted from the Garden Route District Municipality’s SMME Support and Development Programme
- 28 May 2022 Public Notice: Adoption of the 2022-2027 Integrated Development Plan (IDP), 2022/2023 Medium Term Revenue and Expenditure Framework and Multi-Year Budget
- 29 May 2022 PUBLIC NOTICE: Invitation to register on the GRDM Housing Demand Database
- 23 May 2022 Save the Date – Notice of Council Meeting – 27 May 2022 at 11:00
- 19 May 2022 Media Release: Garden Route District Air Quality Awareness Campaigns have reached more than 60 000 people so far
- 17 May 2022 Impact Based Weather Warnings for Western Cape and Namaqua: 17/05/2022 – 19/05/2022
- 16 May 2022 FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE TOWARDS FURTHER STUDIES 2022
- 11 May 2022 Media Release: Update 2: Status of Saasveld Road (George) Construction
- 11 May 2022 Notice: Standing Committee on Transport and Public Works: Public hearings on the Western Cape Provincial Transport Infrastructure Bill
- 10 May 2022 Frequently Asked Questions: Rooikat Recycling Project, Great Brak River
- 10 May 2022 Media Release: Garden Route Air Quality complies 100% with NAEIS
- 9 May 2022 Media Release: Several Karoo towns recently visited to create awareness about municipal health
- 06 May 2022 Impact Based Weather Warnings for Western Cape and Namaqua (Yellow level 2: Disruptive Rain)
- 06 May 2022 – Save the date – Notice of Special Council Meeting – 13 May 2022
- 05 05 2022 Media Release: Inspiring hope – Garden Route District Municipality supports ‘Slipper Day’ initiative
- 05 May 2022 Notice: Applications for Fencing Subsidies to assist Landowners are now open
- 04 May 2022 Media Release: Successful annual Gender–Based Violence Prevention and Awareness Summit hosted in the Garden Route District
- 5 May 2022 Media Release: Have you washed your hands today?
- 5 May 2022 Impact Based Warning: Veld Fire Conditions
- 4 May 2022 Media Release: Garden Route and Klein Karoo Tourism currently marketing the region at Indaba in Durban
- 28 April 2022 For Public Comment: 2022-2027 Draft District IDP/Budget & PMS Process Plan and District Section 27 Framework
- 28 April 2022 For Public Comment: Third Adjustment Budget 2021/2022
- Executive Mayor, Ald. Memory Booysen’s speech during an Ordinary Council meeting on 26 April 2022
- 26 April 2022 Media Release: Best of luck Emile Conrad! Keep our flag high!
- 25 April 2022 Media Release: Minister Simmers engages Municipal Executives on Human Settlements matters
- 19 April 2022 Public Notice: IDP/BUDGET AND PMS REPRESENTATIVE FORUM MEETING
- 19 April 2022 – Save the Date – Notice of Council Meeting: 26 April 2022 at 11:00
- 12 April 2022 Media Release: GRDM Firefighters present Fire Safety and Fire Prevention educational sessions to Garden Routers
- 12 April 2022 Media Release: Several Garden Route DM APAC members complete their terms
- 12 April 2022 Media Release: Saasveld road construction is nearing completion
- 11 April 2022 Media Release: Annual World Travel Market Africa attended by local and regional tourism representatives
- 05 April 2022 Tourism Promotion: Let’s tee off
- 31 March 2022 For Comment: Draft 2022-2027 Integrated Development Plan (IDP), Draft 2022/2023 Medium Term Revenue and Expenditure Framework and Draft Multi-Year Budget
- 31 March 2022 Media Release: GRDM Environmental Health Practitioners conduct Door-to-Door Campaign on World TB Day
- 30 March 2022 MEDIA RELEASE: ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH PRACTITIONERS ENSURING HYGIENE STANDARDS ARE MAINTAINED AT KKNK AND OTHER FESTIVALS
- 29 March 2022 Media release: Wowee for WoW! Champions
- 29 March 2022 Media release: Western Cape Human Settlements opens Individual Subsidy Applications on 1 April 2022
- 25 March 2022 GRDM and Hessequa Executive Mayors with delegation praise Roads team with progress of Roads Project in Jongensfontein
- 23 March 2022 Save the Date – Notice of Council Meeting – 29 March 2022 at 11:00
- 19 March 2022 Media Release: Swarms Locusts (grasshoppers) tearing through the Karoo
- 17 March 2022 Media Release: The GRDM Proudly Prepares Itself as a Provider of Sustainable Housing Opportunities
- 15 March 2022 GRDM Media Release: Disaster Management officials presented their 1st First Aid Level 3 Training for the year
- 15 March 2022 Media Release: NYDA Focusses on Youth Development In The Garden Route
- 15 March 2022 Media Release: Growth And Development Of The Agricultural Sector In The Garden Route
- 14 March 2022 Media Release: Garden Route Skills Mecca Forum Focuses On Youth Development And Agriculture
- 14 March 2022 Media Release: Garden Route DM reaches a decade of ongoing support for Cater Care Students
- 11 March 2022 Impact Based Warning: Veldfire Conditions
- 9 March 2022 Media Release: Garden Route Business Advisory Forum Established
- 4 March 2022 Media Release: Local produced products and services to be showcased by Small Businesses at a pop-up market at the Garden Route Mall
- 04 March 2022 Media Release: GRDM Firefighters educate Garden Routers about wildfires in Summer seasons
- 03 March 2022 Public Notice: Application for consolidation, rezoning and consent use: Erven 22494 and 22495, George
- 25 February 2022 Public Notice: Demand Database information about Affordable Housing in the Garden Route District
- 25 February 2022 Media release: Busy month for Health
- 23 February 2022 Public Notice: EXTENSION OF CONTRACT FOR TUNIMART TRAVELLING AGENCY
- 22 February 2022 Media Statement: Garden Route Municipalities not affected by Typhoid Fever
- 22 February 2022 Media Release: Council unanimously agrees to reappoint Monde Stratu as Municipal Manager for Garden Route DM
- 21 February 2022 Public Notice: 2021/2022 Second Adjustment Budget – Open for Comment and Public Inspection
- Executive Mayor, Ald. Memory Booysen’s speech during an Ordinary Council meeting on 21 February 2022
- 21 February 2022 Media Release: Reported “Higher than usual” number of Enteric (Typhoid) Fever cases based on historical data
- 21 February 2022 New Whip for Council elected
- 21 February 2022 Media Release: A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step
- 17 February 2022 Media Release: Wesgro enters into a contract with Garden Route District Municipality to drive economic growth
- 16 February 2022 Save the Date – Council Meeting: 21 February 2022 at 11:00
- Save The Date: Garden Route Skills Mecca Forum to Be Held on 25 February
- 8 February 2022 Media Release: Saturday surgeries making a difference
- 08 February 2022 Impact Based Warning: Veld Fire Conditions
- 07 February 2022 Impact Based Warning: Veld Fire Conditions
- 05 February 2022 Media Release: Algae in Blind River, Dana Bay
- Profiles of Mayor, Deputy Mayor, Speaker and Mayoral Committee Members
- 03 February 2022 Wesgro to promote Tourism, Export and Investment for the Garden Route District
- 02 February 2022 Impact Based Warning: Level 2 Disruptive Rain
- 02 February 2022 Media Release: Garden Route District Municipality Once Again Celebrating World Wetlands Day on 02 February
- 01 February 2022 Media Release – GRDM and stakeholders to install smoke detectors in Qolweni, Bitou
- 01 February 2022 Impact Based Weather Warnings for Western Cape and Namaqua: Yellow level 2: Disruptive Rain
- 01 February 2022 Media Release: EXPANSION OF MENTAL HEALTH PROGRAMME
- 31 January 2022 Media Release: Floods, tourists and the Garden Route environment
- 31 January 2022 Revised Service Delivery and Budget Implementation Plan (SDBIP) – 2nd Submission
- 31 January 2022 Weather Advisory: Western Cape and Namaqua
- 28 January 2021 Media Release: Garden Route District Municipality’s role in Heavy Motor Vehicle & Hazardous Materials Incidents
- 28 January 2022 Media Release: New District Health Council introduced
- Executive Mayor, Ald. Memory Booysen’s speech during an Ordinary Council meeting on 25 January 2022
- 21 January 2022 Impact Based Weather Warnings for Western Cape and Namaqua: Yellow level 2: Damaging Waves
- 21 January 2022 Weather Advisory: Western Cape and Namaqua
- 21 January 2022 Tourism Promotion – Garden Route boasts Sparkling Coastlines
- 20 January 2022 Impact Based Warning – Veld Fire Conditions
- 19 January 2022 Impact Based Warning: Veld Fire Conditions
- 19 January 2022 Save the Date: Council Meeting – 25 January 2022 at 11:00
- 17 January 2022 Impact Based Weather Warnings for Western Cape and Namaqua: Veld Fire Conditions
- 17 January 2022 Impact Based Weather Warnings for Western Cape and Namaqua: Yellow level 2: Damaging Waves
- 17 January 2022 Joint Media Release: SALGA Western Cape hands over a cheque of R54 862 to Kwamdlezane Baby Care Centre as part of its Mandela Day initiative for 2021
- 15 January 2022 Impact Based Warning: Severe Thunderstorms
- 14 January 2022 Media Release: Garden Route Air Quality remains tops
- 13 January 2022 Weather Advisory for the Western Cape and Namaqualand Region
- 12 January 2022 Media Release: Garden Route Coastal Resorts Perform Exceptionally Well Over the Festive Season
- Fire Update 3: Klein Bavaria on 11 January 2022 at 10:55 am (Closing report)
- 10 January 2022 Impact Based Warning: Severe Thunderstorms
- 21 December 2021 Media Release: SA Harvest reflects on a successful year
- 21 December 2021 Media Release: AVBOB George donated R31 500 to GRDM
- 15 December 2021 Garden Route District Municipality: CLOSURE OF OFFICES
- 15 December 2021 Media Release: Garden Route DM HAZMAT crash simulation conducted in Hessequa
- 15 December 2021 Media Release: WELCOME TO THE MOST BEAUTIFUL PART OF SOUTH AFRICA, THE GARDEN ROUTE
- 14 December 2021 Impact Based Weather Warnings for Western Cape and Namaqua: Yellow level 2: Damaging Winds
- 13 December 2022 Media Release: GRDM embraces Occupational Based Learning
- 13 December 2021 Media Release: Water flowing in the Olifants River brings some relief to drought-stricken farmers
- 13 December 2021 Impact Based Weather Warnings for Western Cape and Namaqua: Yellow level 1: Severe Thunderstorms
- 10 December 2021 Speech by Executive Mayor during a Special Council Meeting
- 10 December 2021 Media Release: GRDM Executive Mayor and stakeholders motivate matric students to achieve success
- 10 December 2021 Public Notice: NOTICE OF 2020/2021 ANNUAL REPORT AND OVERSIGHT REPORT
- 10 December 2021 Media Release: Committees established for the new term of Garden Route District Municipality Council
- 10 December 2021 Public Notice: Final Reviewed 2021/2022 Integrated Development Plan
- 9 December 2021 Media Release: Seasonal Firefighters appointed to assist the Garden Route over the fire season
- 2021 12 09 Media Release: Health platform update
- 8 December 2021 Media Release: Garden Route District Municipality mourns the tragic loss of another employee
- Save the Date: Special Council Meeting – 10 December 2021 at 11:00 am
- 6 December 2021 Media Release: Garden Route DM celebrates Clean Audit and commits to retain it
- 3 December 2021 Impact Based Weather Warnings for Western Cape and Namaqua: Yellow level 2: Severe Thunderstorms
- 2 December 2021 Media Release: Employees offered health checks on World AIDS Day
- 02 December 2021 Media Release: WELCOME TO THE MOST BEAUTIFUL PART OF SOUTH AFRICA, THE GARDEN ROUTE
- 1 December 2021 Media Release: Health Platform Update – 1 DECEMBER 2021
- 01 December 2021 Media Release: Garden Route officials mourn the loss of another dear colleague
- 01 December 2021 – World AIDS Day 2021
- 27 November 2021 Media statement: Madiba Drive remains closed
- 26 November 2021 Media Release: Garden Route District Municipality council inaugurated – leaders elected
- 25 November 2021 Acceptance Speech – Executive Mayor, Alderman Memory Booysen
- 25 November 2021 Media Release: Quarterly Skills Mecca Forum draws experts from LGSETA
- 24 November 2021 Impact Based Warning: Level 8 Damaging Winds & Level 2 Damaging Waves
- 23 November 2021 Media Release: Health Platform Update
- 23 November 2021 Impact Based Weather Warning – Yellow level 4: Damaging Winds
- 25 November 2021 Save the Date: Garden Route District Municipal Council Inaugural Meeting
- 22 November 2021@8H00 Garden Route District Municipality JOC Update
- 20 November 2021 Impact Based Warning – Disruptive Rain
- 18 November 2021 Media Release: Typhoid cases in George
- 16 November 2021 Media Release: Vuma Weekend
- 16 November 2021 Impact Based Warning: Damaging Winds
- 16 November 2021 You are invited to our next Garden Route Skills Mecca Forum
- 15 November 2021 Media Release: Love and warmth – Kangaroo Mother Care
- 9 November 2021 Media Release: Hands-on deck for festive season
- 8 November 2021 Media Release: Youth to get vaccinated
- 8 November 2021 Media Release: Ophthalmic service on the road again
- 5 November 2021 Media Release: GRDM Firefighters perform outstandingly in a Fire Combat and Rescue Challenge
- 2 November 2021 Media Release: Pregnant Women and Vaccination
- 28 October 2021 Media Release: Another 22 students to reap fruits from Garden Route DM Cater Care Programme
- 29 October 2021 Media Release: Garden Route District Municipality improves its procurement practices to avoid Deviations
- 03 November 2021 Media Release: Firefighters from Garden Route DM educate the youth and elderly about fires
- 28 October 2021 Media Release: Wilderness Beach Awarded Full Blue Flag Status for the 2021/2022 Season
- 27 October 2021 Media Release: First case of Avian Influenza reported in the Garden Route
- 27 October 2021 Media Release: We are controlling alien invasive species on all our properties
- 27 October 2021: Message of Support to the Class of 2021
- 25 October 2021 Impact Based Weather Warnings for Western Cape and Namaqua: Yellow level 2: Damaging Winds
- 20 October 2021 Impact Based Warning – Severe Thunderstorms
- 19 October 2021 Media Release: Garden Route DM prioritises the long-term health and well-being of citizens
- 18 October 2021 Media Release: Garden Route Health Platform Update
- 15 October 2021 Update: Avian Influenza outbreak
- 14 October 2021 Urgent Alert: Suspected outbreak of Avian Influenza
- 13 October 2021 Impact Based Weather Warnings for Western Cape and Namaqua: Yellow level 2: Damaging Winds
- 13 October 2021 Media Release: Save our summer
- 13 October 2021 Impact Based Weather Warnings for Western Cape and Namaqua: Veld Fire Conditions
- 12 October 2021 Garden Route Skills Mecca hosts Capacity Building Session for Skills Development Stakeholders
- 7 October 2021 Save the Date: Special Council Meeting – 13 October 2021 at 11:00 am
- 6 October 2021 Media Release: Get your vaccine now for a safe summer season
- 5 October 2021 Save the Date – Invitation: Garden Route Skills Mecca Webinar
- 1 October 2021 Media Statement: Fraud case opened against two GRDM employees and service provider
- (5 – 14 October) SAVE THE DATES: FREE Facebook, Instagram & WhatsApp for Business training sessions
- 1 October 2021 Media Release: Take action during Breast Cancer Awareness month
- 1 October 2021 Financial Assistance towards Further Studies 2022
- 30 September 2021 Media Release: Garden Route DM’s long-awaited fire station is coming soon
- 29 September 2021 Speech by Executive Mayor at the 2016/2017 -2021/2022 final Garden Route District Municipality Council Meeting
- 27 September 2021 Media Release: Vaccination Weekend Garden Route
- 27 September 2021 News Release: Garden Route District Municipality’s Environmental Health Practitioners fulfill significant role in Water Quality Monitoring
- 24 September 2021 Heritage Month – in celebration of struggle icons
- 2021 09 22 IDP/Budget and PMS Representative Forum
- 22 September 2021 Closure of Offices
- 29 September 2021 at 15:00 Save the Date: Council Meeting
- 21 September 2021 Media Release: Garden Route District Municipality (GRDM) Interns receive cellular devices
- 21 September 2021 VACCINATION AWARENESS SESSION WITH DR ZILLA NORTH
- 16 September 2021 Memorial Services of Luleka Yoli
- 16 September 2021 Media Release: Roads employees bid farewell to a dedicated colleague – Luleka Yoli passes away
- 13 September 2021 Media Release: Garden Route District Municipality Mayor, Memory Booysen welcomes easing of restrictions
- 10 September 2021 Media Release: GRDM continues extensive Covid-19 Vaccination awareness
- 10 September 2021 Weather Alert: Severe Weather Warnings – Veld Fire Conditions
- 9 September 2021 Weather Alert: Severe Weather Warnings – Veld Fire Conditions
- 8 September 2021 Media Release: Paving the way forward: Garden Route Skills Mecca collaborates with CATHSSETA on open platform
- 8 September 2021 Media Release: Government stakeholders plant trees at the Provincial Launch of National Arbour Month in George
- 8 September 2021 Call for Proposals: Grant-in-Aid
- 8 SEPTEMBER 2021 Save the date: CATHSSETA STAKEHOLDER ENGAGEMENT
- 6 September 2021 Media Release: District Council approves its first Joint-District Metro Approach Plan – what’s next?
- 6 September 2021 Media Release: Garden Route DM commits an additional R 2.5 million towards export hub
- 3 September 2021 Media Release: Tourism for inclusive growth
- 02 September 2021 Media Release: MINISTER SIMMERS VISITS INFORMAL SETTLEMENTS IN THE GARDEN ROUTE
- 1 September 2021 Media Release: GRDM appoints unemployed youth to relieve healthcare professionals at vaccination sites
- 1 September 2021 Media Release: Garden Route COVID-19 update 31 August 2021
- 30 August 2021 Media Release: Newly appointed MEC of Transport and Public Works visits the Garden Route District
- 30 August 2021 Media Release: Qolweni sod-turning is the start of improved living conditions
- 30 August 2021 SMME Support and Development Programme – Call for Business Proposals
- 30 August 2021 Notification: Cater Care (Food Handler) Training Programme
- 28 August 2021 Western Cape Media Alert: Uniondale learners to receive construction toolkits as part of Youth Empowerment Programme
- 2021 08 26 Notice: Roll-Over Adjustment Budget for the period 2021/2022-2023/2024
- 2021 08 25 Notice: 2022/2023 IDP/Budget and PMS Time Schedule & 2020/2021 Draft Unaudited Annual Report
- 25 August 2021 Impact Based Warning: Veld Fire Conditions
- 24 August 2021 VACCINES ARE SAFE – IZITOFU ZIKHUSELEKILE – DIE ENTSTOWWE IS VEILIG
- 24 August 2021 Executive Mayor’s Speech a the GRDM Council Meeting
- 24 August 2021 Impact Based Weather Warnings: Damaging Waves & Disruptive Snow
- 23 August 2021 Media Release: Garden Route COVID-19 update 23 August 2021
- 20 August 2021 THE PERIODIC MAINTENANCE OF TR2/12 – KURLAND (KM 14.14) TO EASTERN CAPE BORDER (BLOUKRANSPAS) (KM 37.25): TRAFFIC ACCOMMODATION
- 20 August 2021 Media Release: Garden Route Fresh Produce Market a step closer to fruition
- 19 August 2021 Media Release: Ald. Memory Booysen gets his 2nd Pfizer jab
- 18 August 2021 Save the Date: Notice of Council Meeting – 24 August 2021 at 11:00
- 18 August 2021 Impact Based Weather Warning: Disruptive Rain
- 18 August 2021 Media Release: Garden Route DM hosts successful Waste and Biomass Beneficiation Conference
- 17 August 2021 Media Release: New Quarantine and Isolation facility to relieve pressure in the Garden Route
- 16 August 2021 Joint Media Release: COVID-19 Vaccinations: Garden Route Executive Mayors lead by example and encourage others to do the same
- 13 August 2021 Public Notice: Noise Disturbance Advisory, Mossel Bay (13-15 August 2021)
- 10 August 2021 Weather Advisory: Western Cape and Namaqua
- 10 August 2021 Media Alert: Garden Route Waste and Biomass Beneficiation Conference to take place on 12 August 2021 from 09:00 till 17:00
- 9 August 2021 Media Release: Progressive steps towards gender equality and mainstreaming by Garden Route District Municipality
- 05 August 2021 Performance Agreements 2021/22 approved
- 02 August 2021 Media Release: Health platform update
- 02 August 2021 Media Release: “EHPs ends off Madiba Month on a high note”
- 28 July 2021 Invitation: Memorial Service of Berenice Felicity Windwaai will take place on 29 July 2021 at 13:00 – You are invited to join virtually.
- 26 July 2021 Media Release: Health platform update 26 July 2021
- 26 July 2021 Weather Alert: Impact Based Weather Warnings for Western Cape and Namaqua: Veld Fire Conditions
- 22 July 2021 Media Release: GRDM Environmental Health Practitioners donate essentials in celebration of Mandela Day
- 20 July 2021 Weather Alert: Impact Based Weather Warnings for Western Cape and Namaqua: Damaging Winds & Waves and Disruptive Rain & Snow
- 20 July 2021 Save the Date: Notice of Council Meeting – 28 July 2021 at 11:00
- 16 July 2021 Media Statement: All political parties represented in the Council of the Garden Route District Municipality
- 14 July 2021 Public Notice: Draft Joint District and Metro Approach (JDMA) Implementation Plan/One Plan
- 13 July 2021 Media Release: Development of a strategic framework for an alien and invasive biomass economy
- 12 July 2021 Media Release: Garden Route COVID Update 12 July 2021
- 11 July 2021 Weather Alert: Impact Based Weather Warnings for Western Cape and Namaqua: Damaging Winds, Damaging Waves and Disruptive Snow
- 8 July 2021 Media Release: GRDM Council, Management and Staff bid their final farewell to Fire Chief Freddy Thaver
- 8 July 2021 Media Release: COVID-19: Executive Mayor Memory Booysen receives his first vaccination
- 7 July 2021 Weather Alert: Impact Based Warning: Veld fire Conditions
- 7 July 2021 Media Alert: Memorial Service of the late GRDM Fire Chief on 8 July at 10:00am
- 7 July 2021 Public Awareness: The roles and responsibilities of Environmental Health Practitioners in Vector Control
- 6 July 2021 Media Release: Garden Route DM remains committed to uplifting SMMEs
- 8 July 2021 Weather Alert: Impact Based Warning: Damaging Winds
- 5 July 2021 Media Release: GRDM Deputy Executive Mayor gets vaccinated
- 5 July 2021 Media Release: Garden Route COVID Update
- 2 July 2021 Media Release: Covid-19 Vaccines for over 50-year age group
- 2 July 2021 Media Release: GRDM Fire Chief passes away
- 2 July 2021 Media Release: GRDM Home Composting Project participants commence with capturing of organic material
- 1 July 2021 Media Release: Western Cape Human Settlements Budget will empower residents in the Garden Route
- 30 June 2021 Media Release: “We are two weeks ahead of schedule” – upgrades at Calitzdorp Spa
- 29 June 2021 Weather Alert: Impact Based Weather Warning: Damaging Winds
- 28 June 2021 Weather Alert: Impact Based Weather Warning: Damaging Waves
- 28 June 2021 Media Alert: Western Cape Human Settlements budget heads to Garden Route
- 27 June 2021 Media Release: Western Cape Human Settlements Budget heads to Garden Route
- 25 June 2021 Media Release: Increased vaccine allocation to Rural areas
- 24 June 2021 Weather Alert: Impact Based Weather Warnings: Damaging Winds & Damaging Waves
- 24 June 2021 Weather Alert: Impact Based Weather Warnings for Western Cape and Namaqua: Yellow level 2: Damaging Waves
- 23 June 2021 Public Notice: GRDM 2021/2022 Top Layer Service Delivery Budget Implementation Plan (SDBIP) approved
- 22 June 2021 Executive Mayor’s Speech a the GRDM Council Meeting
- 22 June 2021 Media Release: GRDM Roads employee receives 40-year long-service award
- 21 June 2021 Media Release: Garden Route COVID Update
- 20 June 2021 Weather Alert: Impact Based Weather Warnings for Western Cape and Namaqua: Veld Fire Conditions & Damaging Waves
- 21 June 2021 Weather Alert: Impact Based Weather Warnings for Western Cape and Namaqua: Yellow level 2: Damaging Winds
- 18 June 2021 Media Release: Environmental Health Practitioners continue to sensitise Garden Routers of a rise in COVID-19 infections
- 12 June 2021 Media Release: The world is your oyster, and nothing can keep you back!
- 15 June 2021 Call to Register: EPWP Contractor Development Programme – Apply today!
- 15 June 2021 Public Awareness: How to register to vote?
- 15 June 2021 Save the Date: Council Meeting on 22 June 2021 at 11:00am
- 15 June 2021 Media Release: Reflecting on the 2021 GREF Climate Change Indaba and Fire Commemoration event
- 15 June 2021 Media Release: Skills Mecca to become central to job and skills alignment in the Garden Route
- 14 June 2021 Media Release: Garden Route COVID Update
- 10 June 2021 Media Release: Garden Route Clean Fires Campaign reach expands year-on-year
- 10 June 2021 Media Release: Garden Route District Municipality establishes a dispersion modelling function
- 8 June 2021 Public Notice: GRDM Top Layer Service Delivery & Budget Implementation Plan (SDBIP) open for public perusal and comment
- 4 June 2021 Media Release: Garden Route Climate Change Indaba to coincide with the United Nations World Oceans Day
- 3 June 2021 Weather Alert: Impact Based Warning: Damaging Waves
- 3 June 2021 Media Release: GRDM Executive hands over registration certificates for cooperative and PPE to ‘Farming-with-Pride’ Small Scale Farmers in Calitzdorp
- 2 June 2021 Public Notice: Final Review of the 2021/2022 Integrated Development Plan and 2021/2022 – 2023/2024 Multi-Year Budget
- 31 May 2021 Public Awareness: World No-Tobacco Day
- 26 May 2021 Media Release: GRDM Executive Mayor and Mayoral Committee visit three key projects in the Greater Oudtshoorn and Kannaland areas
- 25 May 2021 Media Release: Eighty-year old the first to get jab as part of Phase 2
- 25 May 2021 Executive Mayor’s Speech at the GRDM Council Meeting
- 21 May 2021 Media Release: Rural Roads Asset Management Systems Grant Annual Meeting
- 21 May 2021 Media Release: Fencing subsidies available – call for applications
- 20 May 2021 Media Release: GRDM’s Calitzdorp Spa receives a facelift with new roofs
- 20 May 2021 Media Release: Participatory governance central to the success of Garden Route DM’s New Integrated Human Settlements Plan
- 20 May 2021 Save the Date: Council Meeting on 25 May 2021 at 11:00 am
- 20 May 2021 Weather Alert: Impact Based Weather Warnings for Western Cape and Namaqua
- 14 May 2021 Media Release: GRDM Executive Mayor encourages participants of Mayoral Programmes during Certificate Ceremony
- 7 May 2021 Weather Alert: Impact Based Weather Warnings for Western Cape and Namaqua
- 5 May 2021 Media Release: Safeguarding Wetlands and Preserving Nature’s Ability to Filter and Supply Clean Water
- 7 May 2021 Weather Alert: Impact Based Weather Warnings for Western Cape and Namaqua
- 7 May 2021 Media Release: Private healthcare workers to register for COVID-19 vaccine
- 6 May 2021 Weather Alert: Impact Based Weather Warnings for Western Cape and Namaqua
- 5 May 2021 Weather Alert: Impact Based Weather Warnings for Western Cape and Namaqua
- 5 May 2021 Media Release: Private healthcare workers to register for COVID-19 vaccine
- 5 May 2021 Media Release: Cut-off low to cause adverse weather conditions over parts of the Western Cape
- 4 May 2021 Weather Alert: Impact Based Weather Warnings for Western Cape and Namaqua
- 4 May 2021 Media Release: GRDM Council and Staff acknowledge Firefighters on International Firefighters Day
- 5 May 2021 Weather Alert: Severe Weather Warnings – Disruptive Rain & Damaging Waves
- 3 May 2021 Media Release: Garden Route DM: Nineteen (19) youth being up-skilled for Food Handling
- 30 April 2021 Media Release: Adaptive Capacity Facility Climate Resilient Human Settlements Pilot Programme to be project managed by the GRDM
- 28 April 2021 Executive Mayor’s Speech – GRDM Council Meeting
- 27 April 2021 Media Release: Garden Route District Municipality supports the Commemoration of Freedom Day 2021
- 23 April 2021 Media Release: GRDM continues its efforts to collaboratively address Gender-Based Violence (GBV)
- 2021 04 23 Save the Date: Council Meeting on 28 April 2021 at 11:00 am
- 2021 04 22 Media Release: Garden Route DM helps Non-Profit Organisations and students with funding support
- 19 April 2021 Weather Alert: Weather forecast
- 19 April 2021 Weather Alert: Impact Based Weather Warnings for Western Cape and Namaqua
- 16 April 2021 Public Awareness: Safety Tips for handling and preparing common foods
- 15 April 2021 Media Release:Garden Route District Municipality (GRDM) hosts Khoisan-Kleinkrantz Project Engagement
- 13 April 2021 Memorial Service Alert: Cllr Klaas Windvogel at 11:00 am
- 9 April 2021 Obituary: ‘A servant of the people, a library containing a wealth of knowledge’ – GRDM Cllr Klaas Windvogel passes away
- 9 April 2021 Media Release: Sudden passing of another beloved Roads Services colleague and friend mourned
- 08 April 2021 Public Reminder: Memorial Service of the late Mzwabantu Mbem takes place today, 9 April 2021 at 10:00 am
- 8 April 2021 Public Notice: Draft Service Delivery and Budget Implementation Plan for the 2021/2022 Financial Year is accessible
- 7 April 2021 Media Release: Bitou Municipality initiates Kranshoek Pilot Project on Covid-19 Awareness
- 7 April 2021 Public Notice: Draft Reviewed 2021/2022 IDP, Draft 2021/2022 Medium Term Revenue and Expenditure Framework and Multi-Year Budget
- 7 April 2021 Public Notice: 2019/2020 Annual Report & 2019/2020 Oversight Report
- 1 April 2021 Public Awareness: Easter is upon us…stay safe, move forward!
- 31 March 2021 Request for Assistance: Urgent appeal for breast milk donations
- 30 March 2021 Media Release: Garden Route DM supports the Klein Karoo Export Agri Hub to create a unique rural economy
- 30 March 2021 Media Release: 2021–2040 Garden Route Growth and Development Strategy approved by Council
- 30 March 2021 Media Statement: One finding away from a Clean Audit: Garden Route DM receives its 3rd consecutive Unqualified Audit Outcome
- 30 March 2021 Executive Mayor’s Speech – GRDM Council Meeting
- 29 March 2021 Public Notice: Draft Performance Agreements for 2021/2022 Financial Year are accessible to the public
- 26 March 2021 Media Release: Garden Route at the top of its game in controlling air quality
- 26 March 2021 Public Notice: Join the Municipal Public Accounts Committee (MPAC) Meeting on Monday, 29 March 2021
- 25 March 2021 Public Notice: Join the Municipal Public Accounts Committee (MPAC) Meeting
- 23 March 2021 Save the Date: Notice of a Council Meeting on 30 March 2021 at 11:00 am
- 20 March 2021 Media Release: GRDM Executive Mayor and stakeholders unveil symbolic benches at Victoria Bay
- 17 March 2021 Media Release: District food control measures remain key to ensuring safe food consumption
- 15 March 2021 Weather Alert: Impact-based warning: Rain which could lead to localised flooding- Western Cape Province
- 15 March 2021 Media Release: 90 People benefit from a Garden Route District Municipality Road Construction Leadernship
- 15 March 2021 Weather Alert: Weather forecast 15 – 22 March 2021
- 14 March 2021 Weather Alert: Severe weather alert: Impact Based Weather Warnings for Western Cape and Namaqua (14-15 March 2021)
- 12 March 2021 Public Notice: Municipal Public Accounts Committee (MPAC) Meeting on 23 March 2021 at 10:00 am
- 12 March 2021 Media Release: Garden Route Health Platform Update
- 12 March 2021 Weather Alert: Severe Weather Alert: Veld Fires
- 11 March 2021 Public Notice: Revised SDBIP for 2020/2021 approved by Council
- 8 March 2021 Weather Alert: Weather forecast: 8 March – 14 March 2021
- 3 March 2021 Media Release: First healthcare workers to be vaccinated in Garden Route
- 25 February 2021 Media Release: How to apply for Tourism Road Signage
- 25 February 2021 Public Reminder: Memorial Service of the late Councillor Danny Saayman takes place today,at 10:00am.
- 24 February 2021 Weather Alert: Severe Weather Alert – Damaging winds
- 24 February 2021 Public Notice: Fourth Adjustment Budget, 2020/2021
- 23 February 2021 Executive Mayor’s Speech – GRDM Council Meeting
- 23 February 2021 Joint Media Release: Properties between Garden Route DM and Mossel Bay transferred – partnership established
- 22 February 2021 Media Release: PPE donated to Garden Route municipalities by SALGA-UN Development Programme
- 22 February 2021 Save the Date: Garden Route District Municipality Notice Nr 10/2021
- 19 February 2021 Media Release: Garden Route DM and Local Municipalities form partnership with a NPO and the private sector, to provide food assistance to Garden Routers
- 18 February 2021 Media Release: Passing of Cllr Danny Saayman comes as a shock and will leave a void
- 17 February 2021 Joint Media Alert: Historical Agreement to Accelerate Housing Development in the Garden Route
- 16 February 2021 Save the Date: WebiPanel: Panel discussion on “The Role of Associations and Chambers in post-COVID-19 economic recovery – a local and international perspective
- 16 February 2021 Media Statement: Weddings allowed under the current lockdown regulations (under specific conditions mentioned in this statement)
- 10 February 2021 Media Statement: Oil smell and possible oil pollution in Dana Bay
- 9 February 2021 Media Release: GRDM Grader Operator tragically passes away in motor vehicle accident
- 9 February 2021 Weather Alert: Impact Based Warning for the Western Cape and Namaqua region
- 5 February 2021 Media Release: We are one step closer to accreditation to administer human settlements
- 4 February 2021 Media Release: Eradication of illegal dumping campaign in George extended to end of March 2021
- 4 February 2021 Media Release: Our roles and responsibilities at a residence where someone died of COVID-19
- 21 February 2021 Weather Alert: Weather Advisory: Western Cape and Namaqua
- 2 February 2021 Media Release: “I am the first one” – GRDM helped Thembisa to obtain her Code 14 licence
- 1 February 2021 Media Release: Invest in our region – Message by Mayor Booysen and a background of the Garden Route
- 1 February 2021 Media Release: High Alert for Diarrhoea season
- 31 January 2021 Weather Alert: Severe Weather Alert – Veld Fire Conditions
- 28 January 2021 Media Release: GRDM delegation led by Executive Mayor visits Garden Route Food Pantry
- 27 January 2021 is National Police Day
- 25 January 2021 Media Release: Climate Change likely to blindside RSA on the back of Covid-19
- 25 January 2021 Media Release: Recent storms in the Klein Karoo caused severe damage to rural roads
- 25 January 2021 Media Release: Ambient Air Quality Monitoring conducted in Louis Fourie Road Mossel Bay
- 25 January 2021 Media Release: Garden Route Investment Prospectus formulated to attract domestic and foreign investment
- 22 January 2021 Media Release: New Councillors sworn it at GRDM 1st Council Meeting of 2021
- 22 January 2021 Executive Mayor’s Speech – 1st GRDM Council Meeting of 2021
- 22 January 2021 Weather Alert: Severe Weather Alert: Impact Based Weather Warnings for Western Cape and Namaqua
- 21 January 2021 Weather Alert: Severe Weather Alert: Impact Based Weather Warning for Western Cape and Namaqua
- 22 January 2021 Save the Date: Notice of a Council meeting at 11:00 am
- 18 January 2021 Media Release: Cedric Buys’ passing still mourned by GRDM
- 18 January 2021 Media Release: We will continue to extend a helping hand to small businesses
- 14 January 2021 Public Notice: Grant-in-Aid: Call for Proposals
- 13 January 2021 Media Release: Vehicle control points continue as Covid-19 infections stabilise
- 11 January 2021 Media Release: Garden Route District Municipality loses Roads employee
- 8 January 2021 Media Release: Let’s continue to support our tourism industry COVID-19 and beyond
- 7 January 2021 Media Release: SANDF to arrive in the Garden Route tomorrow, 8 January 2021
- 7 January 2021 Media Statement: Visits to Garden Route District Municipal offices are limited
- 4 January 2021 Media Release : Internal Audit Activity Pass External Quality Assurance Review (QAR) with flying colours
- 1 January 2021 Public Notice: Fishing is allowed
- 31 December 2020 Media Statement: Actions to stop Coronavirus from spreading in the Garden Route
- 22 December 2020 Media Release: Holiday message by the GRDM Executive Mayor, Alderman Memory Booysen
- 18 December 2020 Public Notice: GRDM office closure
- 18 December 2020 Public Awareness: This Summer we are doing this unusual! Come & experience our diverse offerings!
- 16 December 2020 A letter to President Cyril Ramaphosa
- 15 December 2020 Media Release: Behaviour change will help reduce COVID-19 cases
- 15 December 2020 Media Statement: Garden Route District Municipality and stakeholders challenging the decision to close Garden Route beaches
- 14 December 2020 Media Release: Garden Route District Municipality and stakeholders intensify Covid-19 monitoring and compliance inspections
- 13 December 2020 Public Notice: Garden Route COVID-19 update: 03 – 10 December 2020
- 11 December 2020 Media Release: COVID-19 Business Safety Kits rolled out in the Garden Route District
- 9 December 2020 Executive Mayor’s Speech – GRDM Council meeting
- 8 December 2020 Media Release: Environmental Health Practitioners and Firefighters roll out more COVID-19 awareness at taxi-ranks
- 7 December 2020 Media Release: “Communities should champion the containment of COVID-19”
- 8 December 2020 Save the date: Memorial Service of the late Councillor Mputumi Putco Mapitiza
- 10 December 2020 Save the Date: Notice of a Council Meeting
- 3 December 2020 Media Release: Garden Route COVID-19 update – 3 December 2020
- 20 July 2020 Media Release: National Minister of Health visiting the Garden Route District
- 3 December 2020 Media Release: Garden Route DM loses Councillor to COVID-19
- 3 December 2020 Media Release: GRDM holds its 4th IDP, Budget and Performance Management System Representative Forum
- 3 December 2020 News Release: Holidaymakers welcome to the Garden Route district
- 2 December 2020 Media Release: GRDM rolls out proactive disinfection activities in George
- 1 December 2020 Western Cape Government Disaster Centre Covid-19 Alert #3
- 1 December 2020 Media Release: Garden Route District Municipality supports the commemoration of World AIDS Day
- 27 November 2020 Public Notice: Second Adjustment Budget, 2020/2021 – Open for Comment and Public Inspection
- 27 November 2020 Media Release: COVID-19 update, Garden Route
- 26 November 2020 COVID-19 SAFETY: Black Friday Crowd Safety
- 26 November 2020 Address by Executive Mayor, Alderman Memory Booysen at an Ordinary Council meeting of Garden Route DM
- 25 November 2020 Media Release: Ailing 17-year old fleet vehicle replaced
- 24 November 2020 Media Release: Municipalities place skips in Thembalethu and Pacaltsdorp
- 23 November 2020 Notice of a Council meeting on 26 November 2020 at 14:00
- 20 November 2020 Weather Warnings for Western Cape and Namaqua
- 19 November 2020 Media Release: Garden Route unemployed youth commences 12-month telecommunication network operations training
- 18 November 2020 Media Release: Garden Route District Municipality EHPs receive pepper spray training
- 17 November 2020 Media Release: Southern Cape community to reflect on environmental management during December 2020 event
- 17 November 2020 Media Release: Hotspot alert issued for the Garden Route
- 16 November 2020 Severe Weather Alert – Disruptive Rain
- 13 November 2020 Media Release: Garden Routers join efforts to remove nurdles from Mossel Bay and Hessequa coastline
- 13 November 2020 Severe Weather Alert: Impact Based Warning – Veld Fire Conditions
- 12 November 2020 Media Release: Awareness about the dangers of illegal dumping continues
- 11 November 2020 Media Release: Garden Route District Community Safety Forum established – another first for the Garden Route
- 17 November 2020 Media Release: Garden Route DM collaborates with Oudtshoorn Municipality on a home composting model
- 6 November 2020 Media Release: GRDM Environmental Health Practitioners, SAPS and Local Municipalities visit spaza shops
- 2 November 2020 Media Release: Garden Route District Municipality welcomes 30 interns for workplace experience
- 1 November 2020 NOTICE 61/2020 – 2019/2020 UNAUDITED DRAFT ANNUAL REPORT
- 30 October 2020 Speech by Executive Mayor, Alderman Memory Booysen at an Ordinary Council meeting of Garden Route DM
- 27 October 2020 Weather Alert: Warning (colour coded red), indicating “take action” – 27 October 2020
- 27 October Weather Alert: Severe Weather Alert: Impact Based Weather Warning for Western Cape and Namaqua
- 26 October 2020 Media Release: California steaming whilst Knysna and Bitou are reloading for wildfire round number two
- 30 OCTOBER 2020 Council Meeting
- 22 October 2020 SMME Support & Development Programme – Call for business proposals
- 20 October 2020 Invitation to participate in the Household Composting Pilot Project: Zoar (Kannaland Municipality)
- 19 October 2020 Media Release: Reduce, reuse and replant – home composting project rolled out in Bitou
- 19 October 2020 Media Release: GRDM SMME Development Programme benefits SMMEs of the Garden Route
- 16 October 2020 Media Release: COVID-19 Garden Route Update
- 16 October 2020 Media Statement: Regional Landfill Facility still on the cards, but delayed
- 16 October 2020 Media Release: Medical male circumcision to benefit men and their partners
- 15 October 2020 Media release: Wash your hands
- 13 October 2020 Media Release: Garden Route: COVID-19 numbers still climbing
- 8 October 2020 Media Release: October is Breast Cancer Awareness month
- 8 October 2020 Media Statement: Municipal communicators make shocking discoveries at illegal dump site
- 7 October 2020 Severe Weather Alert: Impact Based Weather Warning for Western Cape and Namaqua
- 8 October 2020 Media Statement: Odour complaints in Mossel Bay receiving attention
- 6 October 2020 Media Release: George Hospital virus testing unit closed
- 6 October 2020 Financial Assistance towards Further Studies – 2021
- 30 September 2020 Severe Weather Alerts: Disruptive Snow and Rain & Damaging Winds
- 30 September 2020 Speech by Executive Mayor, Alderman Memory Booysen at an Ordinary Council meeting of Garden Route DM
- 30 September 2020 Media Release: Environmental Health Practitioners still optimistic amidst the pandemic
- 29 September 2020 Media Release: Resource management is key to Eastern Cape survival
- 28 September 2020 Weather Forecast for the Week (28 September to 2 October 2020)
- 27 September 2020: Garden Route & Klein Karoo celebrates World Tourism Day
- 23 September 2020 Media Release: Executive Mayor shares Tourism highlights and concerns with National Parliament Committee
- 23 September 2020 Weather Alert: Damaging Winds – 25 September 2020
- 23 September 2020 Western Cape C-19 Business Relief Fund
- 22 September 2020 Notice: Garden Route International Film Festival – a few important dates to remember!
- 22 September 2020 Notice of Council Meeting taking place on 30 September 2020 at 11:00
- 18 September 2020 Media Release: George Hospital one of ONLY six in the World
- 17 September 2020 Awareness: COVID-19 Return to Place of Worship Guideline
- 16 September 2020 Notice: Bricklaying Apprenticeship Programme – Opportunities for Qualified Unemployed Youth
- 15 September 2020 Media Alert: Executive Mayor to present the Garden Route’s ‘COVID-19 Policy Response to the Tourism Sector’ to National Parliament
- 15 September 2020 Media Release: GRDM nominated as an ECO-LOGIC AWARDS finalist
- 14 September 2020 Media Release: Award-winning Cinematographer WIlliam Collinson’s quirky new film ‘Mr Johnson’ starts its festival journey at GRIFF
- 12 September 2020 Severe Weather Alerts: High Seas, Veld Fire Conditions & Damaging Winds
- 12 September 2020 Weather Alert: Severe Weather Alert, Veld Fire Conditions – 12 September 2020
- 10 September 2020 Media Release: Illegal dumping needs to stop for the sake of all of us
- 9 September 2020 Media Release: Tourism Month – Western Cape tourist guide registration system goes online
- 8 September 2020 Media Release: GDP contraction: We will apply the same urgency to rebuilding our economy as we did to the health response in the Western Cape
- 7 September 2020 Media Release: Donations to vulnerable communities welcomed
- 4 September 2020 Media Release: Garden Route Health Platform Update
- 3 September 2020 Media Release: Let’s talk more about the businesses we support
- 3 September 2020 Media Release: Proposed Long-Term lease to develop, manage and operate Kleinkrantz Resort
- 2 September 2020 Media Release: Innovative Re-Imagine Garden Route WebiShop video and presentations now accessible online
- 2 September 2020 Public Notice: Appointment of Audit Committee Members (2)
- 2 September 2020 Public Notice: 2021/2022 IDP/Budget and PMS Process Plan & Time Schedule
- 31 August 2020 Media Release: Campaign to boost the economy
- 31 August 2020 Weather Alert: Weather Forecast for the Week & Severe Weather Alerts
- 31 August 2020 Media Release: Third Garden Route DM employee loses his life to COVID-19
- 31 August 2020 Call to end Gender-base violence
- 28 August 2020 Media Release: Garden Route Health Platform Update
- 28 August 2020 Media Release: Third Generation Western Cape Air Quality Management Plan Review
- 28 August 2020 Media Release: GRDM Roads official wins battle against COVID-19 after being bedridden in Hospital
- 27 August 2020 Media Release: Minister Simmers conduct COVID-19 awareness in George
- 26 August 2020 Media Alert: Minister Tertuis Simmers to conduct COVID-19 awareness in George
- 26 August 2020 Media Release: Garden Route District Municipality and stakeholders bump up efforts to extinguish peat-wetland fires
- 25 August 2020 Media Release: Southern Cape coastal degradation visible as winter storms take their toll
- 25 August 2020 Media Release: Western Cape Government acknowledges the role of Faith-Based Organisations and Religious Leaders in combating COVID-19
- 25 August 2020 Speech by Executive Mayor, Alderman Memory Booysen at an Ordinary Council meeting of Garden Route DM
- 25 August 2020 Media Release: Alderlady status conferred upon another Councillor of the Garden Route District Municipality
- 24 August 2020 Media Release: Youth from the Garden Route share awareness videos about COVID-19
- 21 August 2020 Media Release: Update on the Coronavirus
- 21 August 2020 Media Release: Garden Route Health Platform Update
- 21 August 2020 Disinfection Activities for the past seven (7) days
- 21 August 2020 Notice of a Council Meeting on 25 August 2020 at 14:00
- 19 August 2020 Media Release: Garden Route District Municipality acknowledges local humanitarians on World Humanitarian Day
- 17 August 2020 Severe Weather Alerts: Damaging wind, storm surges, heavy rain, high seas, snow and flooding
- 17 August 2020 Weather Alert: Western Cape Weather Alert – Snow, High Seas, Damaging Winds and Heavy Rain – 17 August 2020
- 16 August 2020 Media Release: Severe Weather Update
- 14 August 2020 Media Release: Garden Route Health Platform Update – 14 August 2020
- 12 August 2020 Weather Alert: Severe Weather Alert: Damaging Winds – 12 August 2020
- 13 August 2020 Media Release: Tourism Relief Fund assists more than 100 businesses in the Garden Route district
- 11 August 2020 Media Release: Western Cape Minister of Health officially opens the upgraded Kranshoek Clinic
- 11 August 2020 Media Release: WC MEC of Transport and Public Works commends the Garden Route for COVID-19 compliance
- 9 August 2020 Media Release: Women’s Day Message by Municipal Manager Monde Stratu
- 9 August 2020 Message from Alderman Barend Groenewald – GRDM Speaker
- 7 August 2020 Media Release: GRDM looses its second employee, Lemos Soko, to COVID-19
- 7 August 2020 GRDM disinfection activities for the past 7 days
- 8 August 2020 Severe Weather Alert: Damaging Winds
- 7 August 2020 Media Advisory: Minister Madikizela to visit Garden Route district (07 August to 11 August)
- 7 August 2020 Media Release: Garden Route Health Platform Update 7 August 2020
- 6 August 2020 Message from Ms Maxwelline Fatuse – Environmental Health Practitioner
- 5 August 2020 Message from Councillor Clodia Lichaba
- 5 August 2020 Media Release: More EPWP essential workers for the Garden Route to stop the spread of COVID-19
- 4 August 2020 Message from Ms Mouseline Maree
- 4 August 2020 Media Release: Bricklaying Apprenticeship continues to benefit youth of the Garden Route
- 4 August 2020 Media Release: How Red Dot Transport operates in the Garden Route
- 3 August 2020 Message from Councillor Liza Stroebel
- 01 August 2020: Message from Alderlady Rosina Ruiters, Deputy Executive Mayor
- 30 July 2020 Media Release: Accommodation for leisure FINALLY open!
- 29 July 2020 Media Release: Hotspot Awareness increased for Thembalethu and Pacaltsdorp in George
- 28 July 2020 Media Release: A positive attitude helped her beat COVID-19
- 28 July 2020 Awareness: Today is World Hepatitis Day
- 27 July 2020 Speech by Mayor Booysen at an Ordinary Council Meeting of Garden Route DM
- 27 July 2020 Media Release: Alderlady status conferred upon two (2) additional Councillors of the Garden Route District Municipality
- 27 July 2020 Media Release: Those in self-isolation and quarantine in Oudtshoorn stay at home
- 24 July 2020 Media Release: Garden Route Health Platform Update
- (19 – 24 July 2020)Weekly Disinfection Activities
- 22 July 2020 Media Release: New Mobile Air Quality Sensor for the Garden Route
- 21 July 2020 Notice of Council Meeting on 27 July 2020 at 11:00
- 18 July 2020 Media Release: Garden Route District Municipality celebrates Mandela Day and donates essential items to the vulnerable
- 17 July 2020 Media Release: COVID discharge: Ria Makhwenkwe
- 17 July 2020 Media Release: Illegal dumping remains a problem in the Garden Route, all over South Africa and many parts of the world
- 17 July 2020 Media Statement: IDP Manager for Garden Route District Municipality passes away
- 17 July 2020 Media Release: Garden Route Health Platform Update – 17 July 2020
- 17 July 2020 Notification: Essential re-gravel and drainage repair work along the Southern section of the Swartberg Pass
- 17 July 2020 Media Release: Hygiene services enhanced at the GRDM – have yours?
- 16 July 2020 Media Release: George Airport open for business travel under Alert Level 3
- 16 July 2020 Media Release: “My sister and I tested positive for COVID-19 after attending a funeral”
- 14 July 2020 Media Release: Guidelines for businesses offering services such as haircuts, tattoos and manicures
- 14 July 2020 Media Release: Dysselsdorp Soup Kitchens providing a helping hand during the COVID-19 pandemic
- 13 July 2020 Media Release: Understanding drought, the frequency of it, vulnerability and how the Garden Route as a region can adapt to become more resilient
- 13 July 2020 Severe Weather Warnings – Storm Surges, High Seas & Damaging Winds
- 10 July 2020 Severe Weather Alert: Damaging Winds
- 10 July 2020 Media Release: Garden Route Health Platform Update
- 9 July 2020 Media Release: Storm Update
- 8 July 2020 Alert: Garden Route Home Composting Project – 2 days left to apply!
- 9 July 2020 Media Release: Essential workers from GRDM continue to do their best to prevent the spread of COVID-19
- 8 July 2020 Western Cape Severe Weather Alerts : Veld Fire Conditions/ High Seas/ Damaging Winds
- 6 July 2020 Media Release: Garden Route DM Head Office temporarily closed for disinfection
- 6 July 2020 Media Release: Re-Imagine Garden Route Think Tank
- 6 July 2020 Severe Weather Alert: 09/07/2020
- 6 July 2020 Media Release: Your Public Testing Questions Answered
- 6 July 2020 Media Release: Red Dot Taxi Service now serving the Garden Route
- 4 July 2020 Media Release: Garden Route Health Platform Update
- 3 July 2020 Media Release: COVID-19 Business Safety: Compliance Complaint Form
- 3 July 2020 Media Release: More food items collected from the Western Cape Department of Social Development to help homeless shelters
- 2 July 2020 Media Release: Extension of SLA between Vesta Technical Services (PTY) Ltd, Business Engineering (PTY) Ltd, Payday Software Systems (PTY) Ltd and Ubertech CC and Garden Route District Municipality for 24 months
- 2 July 2020 Notice: Revised 2019/2020 Service Delivery Budget Implementation Plan (SDBIP) – 2nd submission
- 2 July 2020 Media Release: Adhere to COVID-19 quarantine and isolation rules to limit the spread
- 30 June 2020 Speech by Executive Mayor, Alderman Memory Booysen – Garden Route DM Council Meeting
- 30 June 2020 Media Release: Alderman/Alderlady status conferred upon seven (7) Councillors of the Garden Route District Municipality
- 29 June 2020 Media Release: Garden Route Health Platform Update
- 28 June 2020 Weekly update on the Corona virus by the Garden Route District Municipality Command Centre
- 27/06/20 Severe Weather Alert
- 26 June 2020 Media Release: Home visits to those who tested positive for COVID-19 – First contact counselling and tracing
- 30 JUNE 2020 AT 14:00 NOTICE OF A COUNCIL MEETING
- 28/06/20 Severe Weather Alert
- 25 June 2020 Media Release: George midwife shares her COVID-19 experience
- 23 June 2020 Media Release: Fencing subsidies available – call for applications
- 27/06/2020 Severe Weather Alert
- 22 June 2020 Invitation to participate in the Household Composting Pilot Project: Bitou and Oudtshoorn Municipalities
- 16 June 2020 PRESS STATEMENT: First Positive Covid-19 case at Garden Route District Municipality and Temporary Closure of Head-Office
- 15 June 2020 Media Release: Alert Level 3 Regulations – Business who are allowed to operate
- 15 June 2020 DSD donates essential food items to homeless shelters in the Garden Route district
- 14 June 2020 Weekly update on the Coronavirus by the Garden Route District Municipality Command Centre
- 13 June 2020 International Albinism Awareness Day
- 12 June 2020 Garden Route DM Waste Recycling and Minimisation Survey Participation
- 11 June 2020 Severe Weather Update
- 11 June 2020 Severe Weather Alert
- 10 June 2020 FOR PUBLIC COMMENT – Service Delivery and Budget Implementation Plan 2020/2021
- 8 June 2020 Severe Weather Alerts (Strong Winds & Veld Fire Conditions)
- 8 June 2020 No re-test offered after 14 days of isolation
- 7 June 2020 Weekly update on the Coronavirus by the Garden Route District Municipality Command Centre
- 5 June 2020 MEDIA RELEASE/ARTICLE: Recovery of indigenous vegetation following the 2017 wildfire disaster remarkable, but regrowth of invasive alien plants on a large scale a reason for concern
- 3 June 2020 at 11h15am. Catch Executive Mayor Memory Booysen live on Eden FM, 93.8 FM tomorrow.
- 2 June 2020 Amendment of the Rules of Order regulating the Conduct of Meetings By-Law
- 2 June 2020 GRDM Disaster Management Call Centre Operators play their part during lockdown
- 1 June 2020 Media Release: Sunday 7 June marks three years after the 2017 Knysna and Bitou wildfire disaster
- 31 May 2020 Weekly update on the Coronavirus by the Garden Route District Municipality Command Centre
- 29 May 2020 Public Notice: Final Review of 2020/2021 Integrated Development Plan (IDP) and 2020/2021 – 2022/2023 Multi – Year Budget
- 2020/2021 IDP GRDM Final Review
- 29 May 2020 Media Release: Seventh week of community screening and testing
- 29 May 2020 Media Release: GRDM Municipal Health Services section educates schools regarding COVID-19
- 29 May 2020 Alert Level 3 is applicable to the entire country from Monday, 1 June 2020
- 28 May 2020 Media Release: Extension of SLA between AON (PTY) Ltd and Garden Route District Municipality for 12 months
- 26 May 2020 Media Release: Ecological grief sets in as the lockdown highlights the looming plight of greater humanity – the destruction of our environment
- 25 May 2020 GRDM holds 2-day Institutional Strategic Planning Session to discuss its strategic direction
- 25 May 2020 Notice of Council Meeting
- 24 May 2020 Your mask can protect you – stay healthy!
- 24 May 2020 Media Release: Weekly update on the Coronavirus by the Garden Route District Municipality Command Centre
- 24 May 2020 Western Cape – Severe Weather Alert
- 21 May 2020 Media Release: Door-to-Door screening to continue
- 21 May 2020 Severe Weather Alert
- 21 May 2020 NMU George Campus remains closed for recreational activities
- 20 May 2020 Media Release: Environmental Health Practitioners – Garden Route DM’s frontline workers
- 19 May 2020 Media Release: Alert Level 4 Regulations – Business who are allowed to operate
- 18 May 2020 Media Release: Update from the Garden Route District Business, Economic and Tourism Sector: business as “unusual’ and business continuity
- 15 May 2020 New regulations issued: Nurseries not open to general public but to agricultural sector
- 15 May 2020 Call for donations
- 15 May 2020 GRDM Disaster Management officials placed at municipalities to assist with disaster management
- 15 May 2020 Covid-19 positive – communities to be supportive
- 11 May 2020 Media Release: New Regulations for Accommodation Establishments
- 7 May 2020 GRDM Council approved Final Revised SDBIP for 2019/2020 financial year
- 7 May 2020 Media Release: Western Cape Business Survey Report – Garden Route Business Impact
- 5 May 2020 Media Release: Effects of the National Lockdown on Air Quality within the Garden Route District
- 2 May 2020 Request for Quotations: Call for quotations for a walkthrough sanitising booth and sanitiser.
- 30 April 2020 Media Release: Eco-friendly ways of repurposing kitchen scraps and garden waste
- 30 April 2020 Media Release: Community Screening and Testing well underway in Garden Route
- 29 April 2020 Council Meeting: 04 May 2020 at 11:00
- 23 April 2020 Media Release: An update from the Garden Route District Business, Economy and Tourism cluster
- 22 April 2020 Media Release: Local Government in Garden Route identifies dozens of regional COVID-19 care sites
- 21 April 2020 Businesses urged to put measures in place to prevent the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus
- 20 April 2020 Emergency Food Relief provided to vulnerable residents of the Garden Route
- 20 April 2020 IS ALL YOUR ELECTRICITY OFF AT WORK?
- 16 April 2020 Call for applications: COVID-19 Agricultural disaster support fund for smallholder and communal farmers
- 16 April 2020 Media Release: Garden Route district homeless are cared for during the COVID-19 pandemic
- 14 April 2020 Media Release: Licences and certificates of acceptability for informal food trading (uncooked) during COVID-19 lockdown
- 14 April 2020 Media Release: Statement by the Garden Route District Executive Mayor – Cllr Memory Booysen
- 9 April 2020 Media Release: Garden Route DM purchases half a million rand worth of essential goods for the vulnerable
- 8 April 2020 Media Release: Role of various institutions in relation to permits, certificates and other approvals
- 8 April 2020 Media Release: Garden Route District Municipality continues with disinfection of public areas
- 6 April 2020 Media Statement: Up to six months imprisonment, a fine, or both for those spreading fake news
- 6 April 2020 National Government / Private Sector Funding Interventions
- 6 April 2020 Media Release: Community screening and testing for COVID-19 starts today
- 6 April 2020 COVID-19 SMME’s Relief Application
- 4 April 2020 Media Release: District Municipality rolls out district-wide disinfection plan
- 3 April 2020 Media Statement: Food vendors and hawkers allowed to trade food during lockdown
- 3 April 2020 Media Statement: Noticing illegal price hikes? Report it to authorities
- 3 April 2020 Media Release: Your donation is needed – CoronaVirus/Covid19 Pandemic
- 2 April 2020 Media Release: Funeral undertakers trained to safely handle COVID-19 deceased
- 2 April 2020 Media Statement: AMENDMENTS TO THE COVID-19 REGULATIONS – SPECIFICALLY ATTENDING OF FUNERALS
- 2 April 2020 Media Release: More than 500 Water Tanks to be distributed to Western Cape informal settlements
- 02 April 2020 Media Statement: Domestic waste handling guidelines for those in self-isolation due to COVID-19 infection
- 1 April 2020 Media Release: Role of Garden Route District Municipality’s Environmental Health Practitioners during the COVID-19 Outbreak
- 1 April 2020 Media Release: Various donations welcomed during the COVID-19 pandemic
- 25 February 2020 Mayor Booysen rides the world’s longest Zipline in Mossel Bay
- 14 February 2020 Beware scammers pretending to raise funds for an Eden Municipality Sports Tour
- 23 October 2019 Financial Assistance towards Tertiary Studies – 2020 – CLOSING DATE EXTENDED TO 31 OCTOBER 2019
- 18 June 2019 The Garden Route Annual Fire Commemoration Event, Climate Change & Adaptation Indaba successfully hosted in Wilderness
- 11 June 2019 Premier’s Coordinating Forum currently taking place in George
- 28 May 2019 World No-Tobacco Day 2019
- 16 April 2019 A first SODA for the Garden Route
- 13 December 2018 CLOSURE OF GARDEN ROUTE DM OFFICES
- 29 November 2018 Garden Route DM and role-players officially launch its “16 Days for No Violence against Women and Children campaign”
- 02 November 2018 No hiking or feeding of Wildlife allowed after fires in the Garden Route
Covid-19
- 23 June 2022 Media Release: Latest COVID – 19 regulations Vol 684 published 22 June 2022, in the Government Gazette No 11447
- 2021 12 09 Media Release: Health platform update
- 1 December 2021 Media Release: Health Platform Update – 1 DECEMBER 2021
- 23 November 2021 Media Release: Health Platform Update
- 16 November 2021 Media Release: Vuma Weekend
- 9 November 2021 Media Release: Hands-on deck for festive season
- 8 November 2021 Media Release: Youth to get vaccinated
- 2 November 2021 Media Release: Pregnant Women and Vaccination
- 18 October 2021 Media Release: Garden Route Health Platform Update
- 13 October 2021 Media Release: Save our summer
- 6 October 2021 Media Release: Get your vaccine now for a safe summer season
- 27 September 2021 Media Release: Vaccination Weekend Garden Route
- 21 September 2021 VACCINATION AWARENESS SESSION WITH DR ZILLA NORTH
- 13 September 2021 Media Release: Garden Route District Municipality Mayor, Memory Booysen welcomes easing of restrictions
- 10 September 2021 Media Release: GRDM continues extensive Covid-19 Vaccination awareness
- 1 September 2021 Media Release: GRDM appoints unemployed youth to relieve healthcare professionals at vaccination sites
- 1 September 2021 Media Release: Garden Route COVID-19 update 31 August 2021
- 23 August 2021 Media Release: Garden Route COVID-19 update 23 August 2021
- 17 August 2021 Media Release: New Quarantine and Isolation facility to relieve pressure in the Garden Route
- 16 August 2021 Joint Media Release: COVID-19 Vaccinations: Garden Route Executive Mayors lead by example and encourage others to do the same
- 02 August 2021 Media Release: Health platform update
- 02 August 2021 Media Release: “EHPs ends off Madiba Month on a high note”
- 26 July 2021 Media Release: Health platform update 26 July 2021
- 12 July 2021 Media Release: Garden Route COVID Update 12 July 2021
- 8 July 2021 Media Release: COVID-19: Executive Mayor Memory Booysen receives his first vaccination
- 5 July 2021 Media Release: GRDM Deputy Executive Mayor gets vaccinated
- 5 July 2021 Media Release: Garden Route COVID Update
- 2 July 2021 Media Release: Covid-19 Vaccines for over 50-year age group
- 25 June 2021 Media Release: Increased vaccine allocation to Rural areas
- 21 June 2021 Media Release: Garden Route COVID Update
- 18 June 2021 Media Release: Environmental Health Practitioners continue to sensitise Garden Routers of a rise in COVID-19 infections
- 14 June 2021 Media Release: Garden Route COVID Update
- 25 May 2021 Media Release: Eighty-year old the first to get jab as part of Phase 2
- 7 May 2021 Media Release: Private healthcare workers to register for COVID-19 vaccine
- 5 May 2021 Media Release: Private healthcare workers to register for COVID-19 vaccine
- 7 April 2021 Media Release: Bitou Municipality initiates Kranshoek Pilot Project on Covid-19 Awareness
- 1 April 2021 Public Awareness: Easter is upon us…stay safe, move forward!
- 12 March 2021 Media Release: Garden Route Health Platform Update
- 9 March 2021 Media Release: Thembalethu Bridge upgrade will boost Southern Cape economy
- 3 March 2021 Media Release: First healthcare workers to be vaccinated in Garden Route
- 16 February 2021 Save the Date: WebiPanel: Panel discussion on “The Role of Associations and Chambers in post-COVID-19 economic recovery – a local and international perspective
- 16 February 2021 Media Statement: Weddings allowed under the current lockdown regulations (under specific conditions mentioned in this statement)
- 15 February 2021 Media Release: Community Economic Recovery Project injects R3 million into the informal economy; provides food relief in Covid-19 hotspots
- 5 February 2021 Media Release: Garden Route Health Platform Update
- 4 February 2021 Media Release: Our roles and responsibilities at a residence where someone died of COVID-19
- 1 February 2021 Media Release: Procurement Disclosure Report reveals R1.85 billion spent on Covid-19
- 28 January 2021 Media Release: GRDM delegation led by Executive Mayor visits Garden Route Food Pantry
- 28 January 2021 Garden Route Covid infections continues to decrease – we need to save jobs urgently
- 25 January 2021 Media release: Garden Route Health platform update
- 25 January 2021 Media Release: Climate Change likely to blindside RSA on the back of Covid-19
- 18 January 2021 Media Release: We will continue to extend a helping hand to small businesses
- 13 January 2021 Media Release: Vehicle control points continue as Covid-19 infections stabilise
- 8 January 2021 Media Release: Let’s continue to support our tourism industry COVID-19 and beyond
- 7 January 2021 Media Release: SANDF to arrive in the Garden Route tomorrow, 8 January 2021
- 7 January 2021 Media Statement: Visits to Garden Route District Municipal offices are limited
- 1 January 2021 Public Notice: Fishing is allowed
- 31 December 2020 Media Statement: Actions to stop Coronavirus from spreading in the Garden Route
- 22 December 2020 Media Release: Holiday message by the GRDM Executive Mayor, Alderman Memory Booysen
- 16 December 2020 A letter to President Cyril Ramaphosa
- 15 December 2020 Media Release: Behaviour change will help reduce COVID-19 cases
- 15 December 2020 Media Statement: Garden Route District Municipality and stakeholders challenging the decision to close Garden Route beaches
- 14 December 2020 Media Release: Garden Route District Municipality and stakeholders intensify Covid-19 monitoring and compliance inspections
- 13 December 2020 Public Notice: Garden Route COVID-19 update: 03 – 10 December 2020
- 11 December 2020 Media Release: COVID-19 Business Safety Kits rolled out in the Garden Route District
- 8 December 2020 Media Release: Environmental Health Practitioners and Firefighters roll out more COVID-19 awareness at taxi-ranks
- 7 December 2020 Media Release: “Communities should champion the containment of COVID-19”
- 7 December 2020 Media Release: Adherence to all Health Protocols is critical in combatting COVID-19
- 3 December 2020 Media Release: Garden Route COVID-19 update – 3 December 2020
- 20 July 2020 Media Release: National Minister of Health visiting the Garden Route District
- 3 December 2020 Media Release: Garden Route DM loses Councillor to COVID-19
- 3 December 2020 News Release: Holidaymakers welcome to the Garden Route district
- 2 December 2020 Western Cape Government Disaster Centre Covid-19 Alert #4
- 2 December 2020 Media Release: GRDM rolls out proactive disinfection activities in George
- 1 December 2020 Western Cape Government Disaster Centre Covid-19 Alert #3
- 30 November 2020 Media Release: EHPs join efforts with Hessequa Firefighters to create more COVID-19 awareness
- 27 November 2020 Media Release: COVID-19 update, Garden Route
- 26 November 2020 COVID-19 SAFETY: Black Friday Crowd Safety
- 23 November 2020 Media Release: Garden Route District COVID-19 Update
- 17 November 2020 Media Release: Hotspot alert issued for the Garden Route
- 6 November 2020 Media Release: GRDM Environmental Health Practitioners, SAPS and Local Municipalities visit spaza shops
- 22 October 2020 Media Release: Premier Winde outlines the path to recovery for the Western Cape
- 16 October 2020 Media Release: COVID-19 Garden Route Update
- 13 October 2020 Media Release: Garden Route: COVID-19 numbers still climbing
- 06 October 2020 Media Release: “We Are Open” international tourism campaign kicks off”
- 6 October 2020 Media Release: George Hospital virus testing unit closed
- 01 October 2020 Media Release: International travel restrictions: A different approach needed to save tourism
- 30 September 2020 Media Alert: Western Cape Government to hold a digital press conference
- 22 September 2020 Media Release: R27 million relief fund launched to help small businesses hard-hit by Covid-19
- 21 September 2020 Media Release: Alert Level 1 – Campaign launched to support businesses to open safely
- 18 September 2020 Media Release: George Hospital one of ONLY six in the World
- 17 September 2020 Awareness: COVID-19 Return to Place of Worship Guideline
- 15 September 2020 Media Alert: Executive Mayor to present the Garden Route’s ‘COVID-19 Policy Response to the Tourism Sector’ to National Parliament
- 15 September 2020 Media Release: Western Cape to call on President Ramaphosa to open up international travel, lift curfew and save jobs
- 10 September 2020 Statement by Premier Alan Winde: Western Cape cabinet to meet on formal position for further reopening of the economy; calls on residents to stay safe, move forward.
- 10 September 2020 Media Release: CANGO CAVES OPEN ITS DOORS AFTER SIX-MONTH NATIONAL LOCKDOWN CLOSURE
- 10 September 2020 Media Release: Illegal dumping needs to stop for the sake of all of us
- 9 September 2020 Media Release: Tourism Month – Western Cape tourist guide registration system goes online
- 8 September 2020 Media Release: GDP contraction: We will apply the same urgency to rebuilding our economy as we did to the health response in the Western Cape
- 31 August 2020 Media Release: Third Garden Route DM employee loses his life to COVID-19
- 28 August 2020 Media Release: GRDM Roads official wins battle against COVID-19 after being bedridden in Hospital
- 27 August 2020 Media Release: Minister Simmers conduct COVID-19 awareness in George
- 26 August 2020 Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- 26 August 2020 Media Alert: Minister Tertuis Simmers to conduct COVID-19 awareness in George
- 25 August 2020 Media Release: Southern Cape coastal degradation visible as winter storms take their toll
- 25 August 2020 Media Release: Western Cape Government acknowledges the role of Faith-Based Organisations and Religious Leaders in combating COVID-19
- 24 August 2020 Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- 23 August 2020 Update on the Coronavirus
- 22 August 2020 Update on the Coronavirus Statistics – Technical Issues
- 21 August 2020 Media Release: Update on the Coronavirus
- 21 August 2020 Media Release: Garden Route Health Platform Update
- 21 August 2020 Disinfection Activities for the past seven (7) days
- 20 August 2020 Update on the Coronavirus
- 19 August 2020 Update on the Coronavirus
- 19 August 2020 Media Release: Garden Route District Municipality acknowledges local humanitarians on World Humanitarian Day
- 18 August 2020 Update on the Coronavirus
- 17 August 2020 Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- 16 August 2020 Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- 16 August 2020 Media Release: Severe Weather Update
- 15 August 2020 Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- 14 August 2020 Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- 14 August 2020 Media Release: Garden Route Health Platform Update – 14 August 2020
- 12 August 2020 Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- 13 August 2020 Media Release: Tourism Relief Fund assists more than 100 businesses in the Garden Route district
- 11 August 2020 Media Release: Western Cape Minister of Health officially opens the upgraded Kranshoek Clinic
- 11 August 2020 Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- 11 August 2020 Media Release: WC MEC of Transport and Public Works commends the Garden Route for COVID-19 compliance
- 9 August 2020 Media Release: Women’s Day Message by Municipal Manager Monde Stratu
- 8 August 2020 Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- 7 August 2020 Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- 7 August 2020 Western Cape Government Cabinet adopts position on safe opening of all businesses
- 7 August 2020 Media Release: GRDM looses its second employee, Lemos Soko, to COVID-19
- 7 August 2020 GRDM disinfection activities for the past 7 days
- 7 August 2020 Media Advisory: Minister Madikizela to visit Garden Route district (07 August to 11 August)
- 7 August 2020 Media Release: Garden Route Health Platform Update 7 August 2020
- 6 August 2020 Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- 6 August 2020 Message from Ms Maxwelline Fatuse – Environmental Health Practitioner
- 5 August 2020 PROTECTING LAND AND UNITS FROM ILLEGAL INVASIONS COSTING MILLIONS, DENYING VULNERABLE 1168 HOUSING OPPORTUNITIES
- 5 August 2020 Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- 5 August 2020 Media Release: More EPWP essential workers for the Garden Route to stop the spread of COVID-19
- 04 August 2020 Media Release: Improved operations at the Port of Cape Town welcomed
- 4 August 2020 Media Release: How Red Dot Transport operates in the Garden Route
- 3 August 2020 Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- 3 August 2020 Arrest leaders of land invasions
- 1 August 2020 Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- 31 July 2020 Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- 30 July 2020 Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- 30 July 2020 Media Release: Accommodation for leisure FINALLY open!
- 30 July 2020 Procurement Disclosure Report a commitment to clean governance
- 30 July 2020 Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- 29 July 2020 Media Release by Premier Alan Winde at his weekly digital press conference
- 29 July 2020 Media Release: Hotspot Awareness increased for Thembalethu and Pacaltsdorp in George
- 28 July 2020 Media Alert: Premier Winde to hold digital press conference
- 28 July 2020 Media Release: A positive attitude helped her beat COVID-19
- 27 July 2020 Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- 27 July 2020 Speech by Mayor Booysen at an Ordinary Council Meeting of Garden Route DM
- 27 July 2020 Media Release: Alderlady status conferred upon two (2) additional Councillors of the Garden Route District Municipality
- 27 July 2020 Media Release: Those in self-isolation and quarantine in Oudtshoorn stay at home
- 26 July 2020 Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- 25 July 2020 Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- 24 July 2020 Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- 24 July 2020 Media Release: Garden Route Health Platform Update
- (19 – 24 July 2020)Weekly Disinfection Activities
- 23 July 2020 Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- 22 July 2020 Media Release: Joint statement condemning violent protests and land invasions
- 21 July 2020 Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- 20 July 2020 Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- 19 July 2020 Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- 18 July 2020 Media Release: Garden Route District Municipality celebrates Mandela Day and donates essential items to the vulnerable
- 17 July 2020 Media Release: COVID discharge: Ria Makhwenkwe
- 17 July 2020 Media Release: Illegal dumping remains a problem in the Garden Route, all over South Africa and many parts of the world
- 17 July 2020 Media Statement: IDP Manager for Garden Route District Municipality passes away
- 17 July 2020 Media Release: Garden Route Health Platform Update – 17 July 2020
- 17 July 2020 Media Release: Hygiene services enhanced at the GRDM – have yours?
- 16 July 2020 Media Release: George Airport open for business travel under Alert Level 3
- 16 July 2020 Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- 16 July 2020 Media Release: Statement by Premier Alan Winde at the Weekly Digital Press Conference
- 16 July 2020 Media Release: “My sister and I tested positive for COVID-19 after attending a funeral”
- 15 July 2020 Media Release: Tourism Product Development Fund launched
- 15 July 2020 Media Release: Do not lease or sell your state subsidised home
- 14 July 2020 Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- 14 July 2020 Media Release: Dysselsdorp Soup Kitchens providing a helping hand during the COVID-19 pandemic
- 13 July 2020 Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- 13 July 2020 Media Release: Tourism sector dealt a severe blow
- 13 July 2020 Media Release: Response by Premier Alan Winde to announcements by President Cyril Ramaphosa
- 10 July 2020 Media Release: Garden Route Health Platform Update
- 9 July 2020 Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- 9 July 2020 Media Release: Storm Update
- 9 July 2020 Media Alert: Premier Winde digicon postponement
- 8 July 2020 Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- 9 July 2020 Media Release: Essential workers from GRDM continue to do their best to prevent the spread of COVID-19
- 8 July 2020 Media Alert: Premier Winde to hold a digital press conference
- 8 July 2020 Media Release: Western Cape Premier Alan Winde has tested positive for Covid-19, has mildflu-like symptoms, and is in self-isolation at home
- 7 July 2020 Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- 6 July 2020 Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- 6 July 2020 Media Release: Re-Imagine Garden Route Think Tank
- 6 July 2020 Media Release: Red Dot Taxi Service now serving the Garden Route
- 3 July 2020 Media Release: COVID-19 Business Safety: Compliance Complaint Form
- 3 July 2020 Media Release: More food items collected from the Western Cape Department of Social Development to help homeless shelters
- 2 July 2020 Statement by Premier Alan Winde at the weekly Covid-19 digital press conference
- Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- 2 July 2020 Media Release: Adhere to COVID-19 quarantine and isolation rules to limit the spread
- Media Alert: Premier Winde to hold digital press conference
- Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- Media Release: Minister Kubayi-Ngubane to urgently confirm accommodation for leisure can open
- Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- 29 June 2020 Media Release: Garden Route Health Platform Update
- 26 June 2020 Media Release: Home visits to those who tested positive for COVID-19 – First contact counselling and tracing
- Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- Media Release: Supporting the Long Street Kiosks during the COVID-19 crisis
- Media Release: Special Adjustment Budget – Tie to deliver on promises made
- Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- Media Release: Alert Level 3 lite – Further clarity required on accommodation for leisure and intra-provincial travel
- MINISTER SIMMERS COMMENCE WITH GARDEN ROUTE MUNICIPAL AND STAKEHOLDER ENGAGEMENT VISITS
- Seda Western Cape Branches open for consultation
- Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- 16 June 2020 PRESS STATEMENT: First Positive Covid-19 case at Garden Route District Municipality and Temporary Closure of Head-Office
- 15 June 2020 Media Release: Alert Level 3 Regulations – Business who are allowed to operate
- Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- OVERSIGHT AND ENGAGEMENT VISIT IN GARDEN ROUTE TO CLARIFY HUMAN SETTLEMENTS PROCESSES
- Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde- recoveries now stand at 68% of all infections
- 15 June 2020 DSD donates essential food items to homeless shelters in the Garden Route district
- 14 June 2020 Weekly update on the Coronavirus by the Garden Route District Municipality Command Centre
- Statement by Premier Alan Winde: Re-opening of schools in the Western Cape safely is in best interests of our learners
- Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- 11 June 2020 Severe Weather Update
- COVID-19: Western Cape Provincial Overview 10
- Media Release: Cape Town International Airport open for business travel
- Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- Media Release: Statement by Premier Alan Winde: Hospital of Hope starts admitting patients 8
- Media Release: Draft electricity regulations need speed and clarity
- Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- Media Alert: Premier Winde to hold digital press conference
- Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- Media Release: Statement by Premier Alan Winde-our testing strategy is focused on saving lives
- Media Release: Open George Airport under Alert Level 3 to save businesses and jobs
- Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- 2 June 2020 GRDM Disaster Management Call Centre Operators play their part during lockdown
- Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- 29 May 2020 Media Release: GRDM Municipal Health Services section educates schools regarding COVID-19
- Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- Media Release: Western Cape scenarios for Covid-19 peak: we need your help to save lives
- Media Release: Implementing the Hotspot Strategy to ensure safer workplaces
- Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- COVID-19: Western Cape Provincial Overview 9
- Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- Media Release: Welcoming Alert Level 3 and opening of the construction sector to save jobs
- Dam levels and Weather update in the Western Cape
- Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde – 400% increase in tests since 25 April, but national backlog is growing
- Media Release: Premier Winde welcomes move to Alert Level 3 in conjunction with targeted hotspot plan
- Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde-over 6000 recoveries in the Western Cape
- Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- COVID-19: Western Cape Provincial Overview 7
- Media Release: Statistical Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- Media Release: Statement by Premier Alan Winde – Our priority is to protect the vulnerable and those at high risk as our curve rises
- 20 May 2020 Media Release: Environmental Health Practitioners – Garden Route DM’s frontline workers
- Media Alert: Premier Winde to hold digital press conference on WC response to COVID-19
- Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde – 4363 residents have recovered from Covid-19 in the Western Cape
- Media Release: Contractors on site to ensure speedy housing handover
- Media Release: Opening private sector construction critical to saving over 100 000 jobs
- 19 May 2020 Media Release: Alert Level 4 Regulations – Business who are allowed to operate
- Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- 18 May 2020 Media Release: Update from the Garden Route District Business, Economic and Tourism Sector: business as “unusual’ and business continuity
- Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- MORE THAN 1300 TO BENEFIT FROM PROVINCIAL HOUSING PROJECTS WITHIN THE NEXT MONTH
- Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde 15
- Media Release: R1.8 billion in UIF TERS funding disbursed in the Western Cape
- 15 May 2020 Call for donations
- Media Release: Deadline to move to a new house or business has been removed
- 15 May 2020 GRDM Disaster Management officials placed at municipalities to assist with disaster management
- Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- Media Release: A good decision to open e-commerce during Alert Level 4
- Media Release: MINISTER SIMMERS CONDUCTS OVERSIGHT VISIT AT FOREST VILLAGE DEVELOPMENT
- Media Release: Free digital technology advisory support available for SMMEs
- Media Release: Premier Alan Winde calls for entire province to move to Alert Level 3 in conjunction with targeted hotspot plan
- Media Release: SASSA State of Readiness for COVID-19 Social Relief of Distress Grant Applications
- Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- Media Release: Minister Maynier visits retail stores in Ceres, Witzenberg
- Media Alert: MEC Simmers to conduct oversight visit at Forest Village Development
- Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde – Premier Winde visits Witzenberg as part of “Whole of Government” Hotspot Response Strategy
- Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- 11 May 2020 Media Release: New Regulations for Accommodation Establishments
- Media Release: Cape Town International Airport wins best in Africa
- Media Release: Citizens can now move to a new house, but only for a limited time
- Media Release: Statistical update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- Media Release: Statement by Premier Alan Winde
- Media Release: Residents can still access Human Settlements frontline services
- 7 May 2020 Media Release: Western Cape Business Survey Report – Garden Route Business Impact
- Helping businesses to open safely and responsibly
- Media Release: Update on the Coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde- provincial PPE supplies doubled in the past week
- Media Release: Western Cape Human Settlements construction to recommence
- COVID-19: Western Cape Provincial Update 5
- Media Release: Update on the Coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- Media Release: Illegal evictions are not allowed during lockdown period
- Media Release: Update on the Coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- 2 May 2020 Request for Quotations: Call for quotations for a walkthrough sanitising booth and sanitiser.
- Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- Joint statement on meeting of Premier Alan Winde , and Opposition Leaders in the Western Cape Legislature
- Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde-Number of tests conducted now exceed 30 000
- COVID-19: Western Cape Provincial Update 5
- Statement by Premier Alan Winde: Western Cape Government to turn CTICC into 800 bed COVID-19 hospital
- Media Release: LIFTING OF LOCKDOWN REGULATIONS TO ACCOMMODATE THE CONSTRUCTION AND RELATED SERVICES INDUSTRY
- Media Statement: UPDATE ON RISK ADJUSTMENT MEASURES AND ECONOMIC RELIEF INTERVENTIONS ON COVID-19
- Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde- Western Cape records 607 recoveries
- Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde- Premier Winde visits the new Khayelitsha testing and triage centre
- Western Cape businesses have made their voices heard on the Covid-19 Risk Adjusted Strategy
- Draft Framework for Sectors – Public Consultation
- Media release: Businesses have your say on the Covid-19 Risk-Adjusted Strategy
- Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde; over 3000 tests conducted in the past 48 hours
- Media Release: Update on the Coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- Media Release: Statement by Premier Alan Winde on the new lockdown strategy announced by President Ramaphosa
- Media release: New risk adjusted lockdown welcomed in the Western Cape
- Media Release: Update on the coronvirus by Premier Alan Winde
- Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- 23 April 2020 Media Release: An update from the Garden Route District Business, Economy and Tourism cluster
- Media release: COVID-19: Western Cape Provincial Overview 4
- Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- Media Release: Department of Employment and Labour pays out Covid-19 benefits to workers
- Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde- we need a common resolve to flatten the curve
- 21 April 2020 Businesses urged to put measures in place to prevent the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus
- Media Alert: Premier Winde to brief the media on the Western Cape Government’s COVID-19 scenario planning and response
- Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- 20 April 2020 Emergency Food Relief provided to vulnerable residents of the Garden Route
- COVID-19: Western Cape Provincial Update 3
- Media Statement: CIPC Certification process for essential service businesses during extended lockdown
- Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- 16 April 2020 Call for applications: COVID-19 Agricultural disaster support fund for smallholder and communal farmers
- 16 April 2020 Media Release: Garden Route district homeless are cared for during the COVID-19 pandemic
- Media Release: Update by Premier Alan Winde on the coronavirus
- Media Release: Update by Premier Alan Winde on the coronavirus
- 14 April 2020 Media Release: Licences and certificates of acceptability for informal food trading (uncooked) during COVID-19 lockdown
- 14 April 2020 Media Release: Statement by the Garden Route District Executive Mayor – Cllr Memory Booysen
- Media Release: App launched to support entrepreneurs in the Western Cape
- 9 April 2020 Media Release: Garden Route DM purchases half a million rand worth of essential goods for the vulnerable
- 8 April 2020 Media Release: Role of various institutions in relation to permits, certificates and other approvals
- 8 April 2020 Media Release: Garden Route District Municipality continues with disinfection of public areas
- 6 April 2020 Media Statement: Up to six months imprisonment, a fine, or both for those spreading fake news
- 6 April 2020 National Government / Private Sector Funding Interventions
- 6 April 2020 Media Release: Community screening and testing for COVID-19 starts today
- 6 April 2020 COVID-19 SMME’s Relief Application
- 4 April 2020 Media Release: District Municipality rolls out district-wide disinfection plan
- 3 April 2020 Media Statement: Food vendors and hawkers allowed to trade food during lockdown
- 3 April 2020 Media Statement: Noticing illegal price hikes? Report it to authorities
- 3 April 2020 Media Release: Your donation is needed – CoronaVirus/Covid19 Pandemic
- 2 April 2020 Media Release: Funeral undertakers trained to safely handle COVID-19 deceased
- 2 April 2020 Media Statement: AMENDMENTS TO THE COVID-19 REGULATIONS – SPECIFICALLY ATTENDING OF FUNERALS
- 2 April 2020 Media Release: More than 500 Water Tanks to be distributed to Western Cape informal settlements
- 02 April 2020 Media Statement: Domestic waste handling guidelines for those in self-isolation due to COVID-19 infection
- 1 April 2020 Media Release: Role of Garden Route District Municipality’s Environmental Health Practitioners during the COVID-19 Outbreak
- 1 April 2020 Media Release: Various donations welcomed during the COVID-19 pandemic
- Media Release: How nail hygiene can affect your health
- Media Statement: New standard workplace hygiene checklists for EHPs
- Media Statement: Lockdown applies to common areas including that of complexes and estates too
- Update on the Coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde- communities can help us fight this virus
- Media Release: Increased risk of COVID 19 infection in ‘hubbly bubbly’ smokers versus non-smokers
- Media Release: Lockdown: Transport of Essential Workers
- Media Statement: Public Transport – Critical days for the Elderly, Disabled and other beneficiaries
- Media Release: Contact tracing for coronavirus (COVID-19): what happens during the procedure?
- Appeal by the Head of Health, Western Cape Government, for the appropriate use of face masks
- Media Statement: Trading hours, meals-to-go and cigarette sales
- Media Statement: Restrictions to Funeral Services during the COVID-19 Pandemic
- Media Statement: Strictly prohibited during lockdown – non-essential services done via ‘home visits’
- Media Release: Have you registered for your permit to operate during the lockdown as an essential service?
- Government measures for SMMEs in response to the COVID-19 pandemic
- Media Release: COVID-19 braille guidelines distributed to public
- Garden Route District Municipality developed a Braille Guideline about COVID-19
- Speech by Mayor Booysen at the 21st Council Meeting of Garden Route DM
- Garden Route Business Impact and Continuity Survey March 2020
- WESGRO COVID-19 Content Centre – Business Support
- Media Release: COVID-19 awareness sessions in the Bitou area
- Statement by the Executive Mayor of Garden Route District Municipality, Cllr Memory Booysen
- Media Release: Temporary closure of all Garden Route District Municipality Resorts
- Media Release: Health System’s response to physical distancing #STOPTHESPREAD OF COVID-19 GEORGE SUB-DISTRICT
- COVID-19 Multi-Agency Command Centre Established for the Garden Route
- Important facts about the Coronavirus in English, Xhosa and Afrikaans
Coronavirus
- 23 June 2022 Media Release: Latest COVID – 19 regulations Vol 684 published 22 June 2022, in the Government Gazette No 11447
- 2021 12 09 Media Release: Health platform update
- 16 November 2021 Media Release: Vuma Weekend
- 8 November 2021 Media Release: Youth to get vaccinated
- 18 October 2021 Media Release: Garden Route Health Platform Update
- 6 October 2021 Media Release: Get your vaccine now for a safe summer season
- 13 September 2021 Media Release: Garden Route District Municipality Mayor, Memory Booysen welcomes easing of restrictions
- 10 September 2021 Media Release: GRDM continues extensive Covid-19 Vaccination awareness
- 17 August 2021 Media Release: New Quarantine and Isolation facility to relieve pressure in the Garden Route
- 02 August 2021 Media Release: Health platform update
- 02 August 2021 Media Release: “EHPs ends off Madiba Month on a high note”
- 26 July 2021 Media Release: Health platform update 26 July 2021
- 5 July 2021 Media Release: GRDM Deputy Executive Mayor gets vaccinated
- 5 July 2021 Media Release: Garden Route COVID Update
- 25 June 2021 Media Release: Increased vaccine allocation to Rural areas
- 14 June 2021 Media Release: Garden Route COVID Update
- 7 May 2021 Media Release: Private healthcare workers to register for COVID-19 vaccine
- 12 March 2021 Media Release: Garden Route Health Platform Update
- 15 February 2021 Media Release: Community Economic Recovery Project injects R3 million into the informal economy; provides food relief in Covid-19 hotspots
- 1 February 2021 Media Release: Procurement Disclosure Report reveals R1.85 billion spent on Covid-19
- 13 January 2021 Media Release: Vehicle control points continue as Covid-19 infections stabilise
- 1 January 2021 Public Notice: Fishing is allowed
- 31 December 2020 Media Statement: Actions to stop Coronavirus from spreading in the Garden Route
- 15 December 2020 Media Release: Behaviour change will help reduce COVID-19 cases
- 13 December 2020 Public Notice: Garden Route COVID-19 update: 03 – 10 December 2020
- 11 December 2020 Media Release: COVID-19 Business Safety Kits rolled out in the Garden Route District
- 7 December 2020 Media Release: Adherence to all Health Protocols is critical in combatting COVID-19
- 20 July 2020 Media Release: National Minister of Health visiting the Garden Route District
- 3 December 2020 Media Release: Garden Route DM loses Councillor to COVID-19
- Media Release: SafeTravels.CapeTown website launched to assist tourists visiting Cape Town and the Western Cape
- 22 October 2020 Media Release: Premier Winde outlines the path to recovery for the Western Cape
- 06 October 2020 Media Release: “We Are Open” international tourism campaign kicks off”
- 6 October 2020 Media Release: George Hospital virus testing unit closed
- 01 October 2020 Media Release: International travel restrictions: A different approach needed to save tourism
- 30 September 2020 Media Alert: Western Cape Government to hold a digital press conference
- 22 September 2020 Media Release: R27 million relief fund launched to help small businesses hard-hit by Covid-19
- 21 September 2020 Media Release: Alert Level 1 – Campaign launched to support businesses to open safely
- 15 September 2020 Media Release: Western Cape to call on President Ramaphosa to open up international travel, lift curfew and save jobs
- 10 September 2020 Statement by Premier Alan Winde: Western Cape cabinet to meet on formal position for further reopening of the economy; calls on residents to stay safe, move forward.
- 10 September 2020 Media Release: CANGO CAVES OPEN ITS DOORS AFTER SIX-MONTH NATIONAL LOCKDOWN CLOSURE
- 10 September 2020 Media Release: Illegal dumping needs to stop for the sake of all of us
- 9 September 2020 Media Release: Tourism Month – Western Cape tourist guide registration system goes online
- 8 September 2020 Media Release: GDP contraction: We will apply the same urgency to rebuilding our economy as we did to the health response in the Western Cape
- 31 August 2020 Media Release: Third Garden Route DM employee loses his life to COVID-19
- 27 August 2020 Media Release: Minister Simmers conduct COVID-19 awareness in George
- 26 August 2020 Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- 26 August 2020 Media Alert: Minister Tertuis Simmers to conduct COVID-19 awareness in George
- 25 August 2020 Media Release: Southern Cape coastal degradation visible as winter storms take their toll
- 25 August 2020 Media Release: Western Cape Government acknowledges the role of Faith-Based Organisations and Religious Leaders in combating COVID-19
- 24 August 2020 Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- 23 August 2020 Update on the Coronavirus
- 22 August 2020 Update on the Coronavirus Statistics – Technical Issues
- 21 August 2020 Media Release: Update on the Coronavirus
- 21 August 2020 Disinfection Activities for the past seven (7) days
- 20 August 2020 Update on the Coronavirus
- 19 August 2020 Update on the Coronavirus
- 18 August 2020 Update on the Coronavirus
- 17 August 2020 Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- 16 August 2020 Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- 16 August 2020 Media Release: Severe Weather Update
- 15 August 2020 Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- 14 August 2020 Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- 12 August 2020 Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- 11 August 2020 Media Release: Western Cape Minister of Health officially opens the upgraded Kranshoek Clinic
- 11 August 2020 Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- 11 August 2020 Media Release: WC MEC of Transport and Public Works commends the Garden Route for COVID-19 compliance
- 9 August 2020 Media Release: Women’s Day Message by Municipal Manager Monde Stratu
- 8 August 2020 Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- 7 August 2020 Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- 7 August 2020 Western Cape Government Cabinet adopts position on safe opening of all businesses
- 7 August 2020 GRDM disinfection activities for the past 7 days
- 7 August 2020 Media Advisory: Minister Madikizela to visit Garden Route district (07 August to 11 August)
- 6 August 2020 Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- 6 August 2020 Message from Ms Maxwelline Fatuse – Environmental Health Practitioner
- 5 August 2020 PROTECTING LAND AND UNITS FROM ILLEGAL INVASIONS COSTING MILLIONS, DENYING VULNERABLE 1168 HOUSING OPPORTUNITIES
- 5 August 2020 Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- 5 August 2020 Message from Councillor Clodia Lichaba
- 5 August 2020 Media Release: More EPWP essential workers for the Garden Route to stop the spread of COVID-19
- 04 August 2020 Media Release: Improved operations at the Port of Cape Town welcomed
- 4 August 2020 Media Release: How Red Dot Transport operates in the Garden Route
- 3 August 2020 Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- 3 August 2020 Arrest leaders of land invasions
- 1 August 2020 Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- 31 July 2020 Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- 30 July 2020 Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- 30 July 2020 Media Release: Accommodation for leisure FINALLY open!
- 30 July 2020 Procurement Disclosure Report a commitment to clean governance
- 30 July 2020 Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- 29 July 2020 Media Release by Premier Alan Winde at his weekly digital press conference
- 29 July 2020 Media Release: Hotspot Awareness increased for Thembalethu and Pacaltsdorp in George
- 28 July 2020 Media Alert: Premier Winde to hold digital press conference
- 28 July 2020 Media Release: A positive attitude helped her beat COVID-19
- 27 July 2020 Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- 27 July 2020 Speech by Mayor Booysen at an Ordinary Council Meeting of Garden Route DM
- 26 July 2020 Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- 25 July 2020 Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- 24 July 2020 Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- 23 July 2020 Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- 22 July 2020 Media Release: Joint statement condemning violent protests and land invasions
- 21 July 2020 Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- 20 July 2020 Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- 19 July 2020 Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- 17 July 2020 Media Release: Hygiene services enhanced at the GRDM – have yours?
- 16 July 2020 Media Release: George Airport open for business travel under Alert Level 3
- 16 July 2020 Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- 16 July 2020 Media Release: Statement by Premier Alan Winde at the Weekly Digital Press Conference
- 15 July 2020 Media Release: Tourism Product Development Fund launched
- 15 July 2020 Media Release: Do not lease or sell your state subsidised home
- 14 July 2020 Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- 13 July 2020 Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- 13 July 2020 Media Release: Tourism sector dealt a severe blow
- 13 July 2020 Media Release: Response by Premier Alan Winde to announcements by President Cyril Ramaphosa
- 9 July 2020 Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- 9 July 2020 Media Release: Storm Update
- 9 July 2020 Media Alert: Premier Winde digicon postponement
- 8 July 2020 Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- 9 July 2020 Media Release: Essential workers from GRDM continue to do their best to prevent the spread of COVID-19
- 8 July 2020 Media Alert: Premier Winde to hold a digital press conference
- 8 July 2020 Media Release: Western Cape Premier Alan Winde has tested positive for Covid-19, has mildflu-like symptoms, and is in self-isolation at home
- 7 July 2020 Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- 6 July 2020 Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- 6 July 2020 Media Release: Re-Imagine Garden Route Think Tank
- 2 July 2020 Statement by Premier Alan Winde at the weekly Covid-19 digital press conference
- Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- Media Alert: Premier Winde to hold digital press conference
- Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- Media Release: Minister Kubayi-Ngubane to urgently confirm accommodation for leisure can open
- Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- 26 June 2020 Media Release: Home visits to those who tested positive for COVID-19 – First contact counselling and tracing
- Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- Media Release: Supporting the Long Street Kiosks during the COVID-19 crisis
- Media Release: Special Adjustment Budget – Tie to deliver on promises made
- Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- Media Release: Alert Level 3 lite – Further clarity required on accommodation for leisure and intra-provincial travel
- MINISTER SIMMERS COMMENCE WITH GARDEN ROUTE MUNICIPAL AND STAKEHOLDER ENGAGEMENT VISITS
- Seda Western Cape Branches open for consultation
- Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- 15 June 2020 Media Release: Alert Level 3 Regulations – Business who are allowed to operate
- Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- OVERSIGHT AND ENGAGEMENT VISIT IN GARDEN ROUTE TO CLARIFY HUMAN SETTLEMENTS PROCESSES
- Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde- recoveries now stand at 68% of all infections
- Statement by Premier Alan Winde: Re-opening of schools in the Western Cape safely is in best interests of our learners
- Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- 11 June 2020 Severe Weather Update
- COVID-19: Western Cape Provincial Overview 10
- Media Release: Cape Town International Airport open for business travel
- Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- Media Release: Statement by Premier Alan Winde: Hospital of Hope starts admitting patients 8
- Media Release: Draft electricity regulations need speed and clarity
- Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- Media Alert: Premier Winde to hold digital press conference
- Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- Media Release: Statement by Premier Alan Winde-our testing strategy is focused on saving lives
- Media Release: Open George Airport under Alert Level 3 to save businesses and jobs
- Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- 2 June 2020 GRDM Disaster Management Call Centre Operators play their part during lockdown
- Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- 29 May 2020 Media Release: GRDM Municipal Health Services section educates schools regarding COVID-19
- Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- Media Release: Western Cape scenarios for Covid-19 peak: we need your help to save lives
- Media Release: Implementing the Hotspot Strategy to ensure safer workplaces
- Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- COVID-19: Western Cape Provincial Overview 9
- Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- Media Release: Welcoming Alert Level 3 and opening of the construction sector to save jobs
- Dam levels and Weather update in the Western Cape
- Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde – 400% increase in tests since 25 April, but national backlog is growing
- Media Release: Premier Winde welcomes move to Alert Level 3 in conjunction with targeted hotspot plan
- Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde-over 6000 recoveries in the Western Cape
- Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- COVID-19: Western Cape Provincial Overview 7
- Media Release: Statistical Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- Media Release: Statement by Premier Alan Winde – Our priority is to protect the vulnerable and those at high risk as our curve rises
- Media Alert: Premier Winde to hold digital press conference on WC response to COVID-19
- Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde – 4363 residents have recovered from Covid-19 in the Western Cape
- Media Release: Contractors on site to ensure speedy housing handover
- Media Release: Opening private sector construction critical to saving over 100 000 jobs
- 19 May 2020 Media Release: Alert Level 4 Regulations – Business who are allowed to operate
- Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- 18 May 2020 Media Release: Update from the Garden Route District Business, Economic and Tourism Sector: business as “unusual’ and business continuity
- Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- MORE THAN 1300 TO BENEFIT FROM PROVINCIAL HOUSING PROJECTS WITHIN THE NEXT MONTH
- Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde 15
- Media Release: R1.8 billion in UIF TERS funding disbursed in the Western Cape
- Media Release: Deadline to move to a new house or business has been removed
- 15 May 2020 Covid-19 positive – communities to be supportive
- Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- Media Release: A good decision to open e-commerce during Alert Level 4
- Media Release: MINISTER SIMMERS CONDUCTS OVERSIGHT VISIT AT FOREST VILLAGE DEVELOPMENT
- Media Release: Free digital technology advisory support available for SMMEs
- Media Release: Premier Alan Winde calls for entire province to move to Alert Level 3 in conjunction with targeted hotspot plan
- Media Release: SASSA State of Readiness for COVID-19 Social Relief of Distress Grant Applications
- Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- Media Release: Minister Maynier visits retail stores in Ceres, Witzenberg
- Media Alert: MEC Simmers to conduct oversight visit at Forest Village Development
- Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde – Premier Winde visits Witzenberg as part of “Whole of Government” Hotspot Response Strategy
- Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- 11 May 2020 Media Release: New Regulations for Accommodation Establishments
- Media Release: Cape Town International Airport wins best in Africa
- Media Release: Citizens can now move to a new house, but only for a limited time
- Media Release: Statistical update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- Media Release: Statement by Premier Alan Winde
- Media Release: Residents can still access Human Settlements frontline services
- 7 May 2020 Media Release: Western Cape Business Survey Report – Garden Route Business Impact
- Helping businesses to open safely and responsibly
- Media Release: Update on the Coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde- provincial PPE supplies doubled in the past week
- Media Release: Western Cape Human Settlements construction to recommence
- COVID-19: Western Cape Provincial Update 5
- Media Release: Update on the Coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- Media Release: Illegal evictions are not allowed during lockdown period
- Media Release: Update on the Coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- 2 May 2020 Request for Quotations: Call for quotations for a walkthrough sanitising booth and sanitiser.
- Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- Joint statement on meeting of Premier Alan Winde , and Opposition Leaders in the Western Cape Legislature
- Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde-Number of tests conducted now exceed 30 000
- COVID-19: Western Cape Provincial Update 5
- Statement by Premier Alan Winde: Western Cape Government to turn CTICC into 800 bed COVID-19 hospital
- Media Release: LIFTING OF LOCKDOWN REGULATIONS TO ACCOMMODATE THE CONSTRUCTION AND RELATED SERVICES INDUSTRY
- Media Statement: UPDATE ON RISK ADJUSTMENT MEASURES AND ECONOMIC RELIEF INTERVENTIONS ON COVID-19
- Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde- Western Cape records 607 recoveries
- Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde- Premier Winde visits the new Khayelitsha testing and triage centre
- Western Cape businesses have made their voices heard on the Covid-19 Risk Adjusted Strategy
- Draft Framework for Sectors – Public Consultation
- Media release: Businesses have your say on the Covid-19 Risk-Adjusted Strategy
- Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde; over 3000 tests conducted in the past 48 hours
- Media Release: Update on the Coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- Media Release: Statement by Premier Alan Winde on the new lockdown strategy announced by President Ramaphosa
- Media release: New risk adjusted lockdown welcomed in the Western Cape
- Media Release: Update on the coronvirus by Premier Alan Winde
- Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- 23 April 2020 Media Release: An update from the Garden Route District Business, Economy and Tourism cluster
- Media release: COVID-19: Western Cape Provincial Overview 4
- Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- Media Release: Department of Employment and Labour pays out Covid-19 benefits to workers
- Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde- we need a common resolve to flatten the curve
- 21 April 2020 Businesses urged to put measures in place to prevent the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus
- Media Alert: Premier Winde to brief the media on the Western Cape Government’s COVID-19 scenario planning and response
- Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- 20 April 2020 Emergency Food Relief provided to vulnerable residents of the Garden Route
- COVID-19: Western Cape Provincial Update 3
- Media Statement: CIPC Certification process for essential service businesses during extended lockdown
- Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- 16 April 2020 Call for applications: COVID-19 Agricultural disaster support fund for smallholder and communal farmers
- 16 April 2020 Media Release: Garden Route district homeless are cared for during the COVID-19 pandemic
- Media Release: Update by Premier Alan Winde on the coronavirus
- Media Release: Update by Premier Alan Winde on the coronavirus
- 14 April 2020 Media Release: Licences and certificates of acceptability for informal food trading (uncooked) during COVID-19 lockdown
- 14 April 2020 Media Release: Statement by the Garden Route District Executive Mayor – Cllr Memory Booysen
- Media Release: App launched to support entrepreneurs in the Western Cape
- 9 April 2020 Media Release: Garden Route DM purchases half a million rand worth of essential goods for the vulnerable
- 8 April 2020 Media Release: Garden Route District Municipality continues with disinfection of public areas
- 6 April 2020 National Government / Private Sector Funding Interventions
- 6 April 2020 COVID-19 SMME’s Relief Application
- 3 April 2020 Media Statement: Noticing illegal price hikes? Report it to authorities
- 3 April 2020 Media Release: Your donation is needed – CoronaVirus/Covid19 Pandemic
- 2 April 2020 Media Release: More than 500 Water Tanks to be distributed to Western Cape informal settlements
- 1 April 2020 Media Release: Role of Garden Route District Municipality’s Environmental Health Practitioners during the COVID-19 Outbreak
- Media Statement: Lockdown applies to common areas including that of complexes and estates too
- Update on the Coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde- communities can help us fight this virus
- Media Release: Lockdown: Transport of Essential Workers
- Garden Route Business Impact and Continuity Survey March 2020
- Media Release: Temporary closure of all Garden Route District Municipality Resorts
- COVID-19 Health and Hygiene Awareness Sessions in the greater Oudtshoorn and Kannaland area
- GRDM Municipal Health Services conducts Corona COVID-19 awareness at St Pauls Primary School
- Garden Route Skills Summit cancelled due to growing concerns over COVID-19 VIRUS
Provincial & National
- 12 May 2023 Media Release: GRDM empowers employees on Labour related matters that could be experienced in the workplace
- 23 March 2023 Media Release: We Can Beat It
- 07 March 2023 Media Release: Your breast milk is a lifeline to a small baby
- 19 July 2022 Media Release: A healthy life for all
- 1 July 2022 Media Release: The South African Police Service and Garden Route District Municipality host Anti-Crime Summit
- 9 June 2022 Media Release: Series of cold fronts headed for South Africa
- 11 May 2022 Notice: Standing Committee on Transport and Public Works: Public hearings on the Western Cape Provincial Transport Infrastructure Bill
- 25 February 2022 Media release: Busy month for Health
- 16 February 2022 Media Release: Healthcare support for teenage pregnancies
- 1 December 2021 Media Release: Health Platform Update – 1 DECEMBER 2021
- 24 November 2021 Impact Based Warning: Level 8 Damaging Winds & Level 2 Damaging Waves
- 23 November 2021 Media Release: Health Platform Update
- 16 November 2021 Impact Based Warning: Damaging Winds
- 2 November 2021 Media Release: Pregnant Women and Vaccination
- 15 October 2021 Update: Avian Influenza outbreak
- 14 October 2021 Urgent Alert: Suspected outbreak of Avian Influenza
- 27 September 2021 Media Release: Vaccination Weekend Garden Route
- 30 August 2021 Media Release: Qolweni sod-turning is the start of improved living conditions
- 15 June 2021 Call to Register: EPWP Contractor Development Programme – Apply today!
- 30 April 2021 Media Release: Western Cape Premier Alan Wine and Minister Tertuis Simmers visit Garden Route Housing Projects
- 9 March 2021 Media Release: Thembalethu Bridge upgrade will boost Southern Cape economy
- 15 February 2021 Media Release: Community Economic Recovery Project injects R3 million into the informal economy; provides food relief in Covid-19 hotspots
- 5 February 2021 Media Release: Garden Route Health Platform Update
- 1 February 2021 Media Release: Procurement Disclosure Report reveals R1.85 billion spent on Covid-19
- 28 January 2021 Garden Route Covid infections continues to decrease – we need to save jobs urgently
- 25 January 2021 Media release: Garden Route Health platform update
- 7 December 2020 Media Release: Adherence to all Health Protocols is critical in combatting COVID-19
- 2 December 2020 Western Cape Government Disaster Centre Covid-19 Alert #4
- 1 December 2020 Western Cape Government Disaster Centre Covid-19 Alert #3
- 23 November 2020 Media Release: Garden Route District COVID-19 Update
- Media Release: SafeTravels.CapeTown website launched to assist tourists visiting Cape Town and the Western Cape
- 22 October 2020 Media Release: Premier Winde outlines the path to recovery for the Western Cape
- Media Release: A WESTERN CAPE HOUSING SUBSIDY THAT SUITS YOUR POCKET IS AVAILABLE
- 06 October 2020 Media Release: “We Are Open” international tourism campaign kicks off”
- MEDIA ALERT: Power Town residents and Sonskynvallei Backyard Dwellers in Mossel Bay To Become Homeowners
- 01 October 2020 Media Release: International travel restrictions: A different approach needed to save tourism
- 30 September 2020 Media Alert: Western Cape Government to hold a digital press conference
- 22 September 2020 Media Release: R27 million relief fund launched to help small businesses hard-hit by Covid-19
- 21 September 2020 Media Release: Alert Level 1 – Campaign launched to support businesses to open safely
- 15 September 2020 Media Release: Western Cape to call on President Ramaphosa to open up international travel, lift curfew and save jobs
- 10 September 2020 Statement by Premier Alan Winde: Western Cape cabinet to meet on formal position for further reopening of the economy; calls on residents to stay safe, move forward.
- 10 September 2020 Media Release: CANGO CAVES OPEN ITS DOORS AFTER SIX-MONTH NATIONAL LOCKDOWN CLOSURE
- 8 September 2020 Media Release: GDP contraction: We will apply the same urgency to rebuilding our economy as we did to the health response in the Western Cape
- 26 August 2020 Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- 24 August 2020 Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- 23 August 2020 Update on the Coronavirus
- 22 August 2020 Update on the Coronavirus Statistics – Technical Issues
- 20 August 2020 Update on the Coronavirus
- 19 August 2020 Update on the Coronavirus
- 18 August 2020 Update on the Coronavirus
- Weather Alert: Severe Weather Alerts – High Seas, Heavy Rain & Flooding and Snow – 18 AUgust 2020
- 17 August 2020 Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- 16 August 2020 Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- 15 August 2020 Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- 14 August 2020 Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- 12 August 2020 Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- 11 August 2020 Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- 8 August 2020 Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- 7 August 2020 Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- 7 August 2020 Western Cape Government Cabinet adopts position on safe opening of all businesses
- 6 August 2020 Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- 5 August 2020 PROTECTING LAND AND UNITS FROM ILLEGAL INVASIONS COSTING MILLIONS, DENYING VULNERABLE 1168 HOUSING OPPORTUNITIES
- 5 August 2020 Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- 04 August 2020 Media Release: Improved operations at the Port of Cape Town welcomed
- 3 August 2020 Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- 3 August 2020 Arrest leaders of land invasions
- 1 August 2020 Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- 31 July 2020 Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- 30 July 2020 Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- 30 July 2020 Procurement Disclosure Report a commitment to clean governance
- 30 July 2020 Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- 29 July 2020 Media Release by Premier Alan Winde at his weekly digital press conference
- 28 July 2020 Media Alert: Premier Winde to hold digital press conference
- 27 July 2020 Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- MEDIA ALERT: MINISTER TERTUIS SIMMERS TO VISIT HESSEQUA MUNICIPAL AREA
- 26 July 2020 Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- 25 July 2020 Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- 24 July 2020 Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- 23 July 2020 Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- 22 July 2020 Media Release: Joint statement condemning violent protests and land invasions
- 21 July 2020 Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- 20 July 2020 Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- 19 July 2020 Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- 16 July 2020 Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- 16 July 2020 Media Release: Statement by Premier Alan Winde at the Weekly Digital Press Conference
- 15 July 2020 Media Release: Tourism Product Development Fund launched
- 15 July 2020 Media Release: Do not lease or sell your state subsidised home
- 14 July 2020 Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- 13 July 2020 Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- 13 July 2020 Media Release: Tourism sector dealt a severe blow
- 13 July 2020 Media Release: Response by Premier Alan Winde to announcements by President Cyril Ramaphosa
- 9 July 2020 Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- 9 July 2020 Media Alert: Premier Winde digicon postponement
- 8 July 2020 Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- 8 July 2020 Media Alert: Premier Winde to hold a digital press conference
- 8 July 2020 Media Release: Western Cape Premier Alan Winde has tested positive for Covid-19, has mildflu-like symptoms, and is in self-isolation at home
- 7 July 2020 Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- 6 July 2020 Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- 2 July 2020 Statement by Premier Alan Winde at the weekly Covid-19 digital press conference
- Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- Media Alert: Premier Winde to hold digital press conference
- Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- Media Release: Minister Kubayi-Ngubane to urgently confirm accommodation for leisure can open
- Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- Media Release: Supporting the Long Street Kiosks during the COVID-19 crisis
- Media Release: Special Adjustment Budget – Tie to deliver on promises made
- Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- Media Release: Alert Level 3 lite – Further clarity required on accommodation for leisure and intra-provincial travel
- Department of Cultural Affairs and Sport relief funding application process update
- MINISTER SIMMERS COMMENCE WITH GARDEN ROUTE MUNICIPAL AND STAKEHOLDER ENGAGEMENT VISITS
- Seda Western Cape Branches open for consultation
- Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- OVERSIGHT AND ENGAGEMENT VISIT IN GARDEN ROUTE TO CLARIFY HUMAN SETTLEMENTS PROCESSES
- Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde- recoveries now stand at 68% of all infections
- Statement by Premier Alan Winde: Re-opening of schools in the Western Cape safely is in best interests of our learners
- Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- COVID-19: Western Cape Provincial Overview 10
- Media Release: Cape Town International Airport open for business travel
- Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- MEDIA ALERT: SLANGRIVIER RESIDENTS TO RECEIVE TITLE DEEDS FROM MINISTER TERTUIS SIMMERS
- Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- Media Release: Statement by Premier Alan Winde: Hospital of Hope starts admitting patients 8
- Media Release: Draft electricity regulations need speed and clarity
- Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- Media Alert: Premier Winde to hold digital press conference
- Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- Media Release: Statement by Premier Alan Winde-our testing strategy is focused on saving lives
- Media Release: Open George Airport under Alert Level 3 to save businesses and jobs
- Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- Media Release: Western Cape scenarios for Covid-19 peak: we need your help to save lives
- Media Release: Implementing the Hotspot Strategy to ensure safer workplaces
- Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- COVID-19: Western Cape Provincial Overview 9
- Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- Media Release: Welcoming Alert Level 3 and opening of the construction sector to save jobs
- Dam levels and Weather update in the Western Cape
- Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde – 400% increase in tests since 25 April, but national backlog is growing
- Media Release: Premier Winde welcomes move to Alert Level 3 in conjunction with targeted hotspot plan
- Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- MEDIA ALERT: MINISTER SIMMERS TO CONDUCT OVERSIGHT VISIT AT GRABOUW’S ROOIDAKKE DEVELOPMENT
- Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde-over 6000 recoveries in the Western Cape
- Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- 21 May 2020 Media Release: Door-to-Door screening to continue
- COVID-19: Western Cape Provincial Overview 7
- Media Release: Statistical Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- Media Release: Statement by Premier Alan Winde – Our priority is to protect the vulnerable and those at high risk as our curve rises
- Media Alert: Premier Winde to hold digital press conference on WC response to COVID-19
- Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde – 4363 residents have recovered from Covid-19 in the Western Cape
- Media Release: Contractors on site to ensure speedy housing handover
- Media Release: Opening private sector construction critical to saving over 100 000 jobs
- Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- MORE THAN 1300 TO BENEFIT FROM PROVINCIAL HOUSING PROJECTS WITHIN THE NEXT MONTH
- Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde 15
- Media Release: R1.8 billion in UIF TERS funding disbursed in the Western Cape
- Media Release: Deadline to move to a new house or business has been removed
- 15 May 2020 Covid-19 positive – communities to be supportive
- Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- Media Release: A good decision to open e-commerce during Alert Level 4
- Media Release: MINISTER SIMMERS CONDUCTS OVERSIGHT VISIT AT FOREST VILLAGE DEVELOPMENT
- Media Release: Free digital technology advisory support available for SMMEs
- Media Release: Premier Alan Winde calls for entire province to move to Alert Level 3 in conjunction with targeted hotspot plan
- Media Release: SASSA State of Readiness for COVID-19 Social Relief of Distress Grant Applications
- Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- Media Release: Minister Maynier visits retail stores in Ceres, Witzenberg
- Media Alert: MEC Simmers to conduct oversight visit at Forest Village Development
- Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde – Premier Winde visits Witzenberg as part of “Whole of Government” Hotspot Response Strategy
- Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- Media Release: Cape Town International Airport wins best in Africa
- Media Release: Citizens can now move to a new house, but only for a limited time
- Media Release: Statistical update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- Media Release: Statement by Premier Alan Winde
- Media Release: Residents can still access Human Settlements frontline services
- Helping businesses to open safely and responsibly
- Media Release: Update on the Coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde- provincial PPE supplies doubled in the past week
- Media Release: Western Cape Human Settlements construction to recommence
- COVID-19: Western Cape Provincial Update 5
- Media Release: Update on the Coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- Media Release: Illegal evictions are not allowed during lockdown period
- Media Release: Update on the Coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- Joint statement on meeting of Premier Alan Winde , and Opposition Leaders in the Western Cape Legislature
- Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- 30 April 2020 Media Release: Community Screening and Testing well underway in Garden Route
- Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde-Number of tests conducted now exceed 30 000
- COVID-19: Western Cape Provincial Update 5
- Statement by Premier Alan Winde: Western Cape Government to turn CTICC into 800 bed COVID-19 hospital
- Media Release: LIFTING OF LOCKDOWN REGULATIONS TO ACCOMMODATE THE CONSTRUCTION AND RELATED SERVICES INDUSTRY
- Media Statement: UPDATE ON RISK ADJUSTMENT MEASURES AND ECONOMIC RELIEF INTERVENTIONS ON COVID-19
- Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde- Western Cape records 607 recoveries
- Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde- Premier Winde visits the new Khayelitsha testing and triage centre
- Western Cape businesses have made their voices heard on the Covid-19 Risk Adjusted Strategy
- Draft Framework for Sectors – Public Consultation
- Media release: Businesses have your say on the Covid-19 Risk-Adjusted Strategy
- Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde; over 3000 tests conducted in the past 48 hours
- Media Release: Update on the Coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- Media Release: Statement by Premier Alan Winde on the new lockdown strategy announced by President Ramaphosa
- Media release: New risk adjusted lockdown welcomed in the Western Cape
- Media Release: Update on the coronvirus by Premier Alan Winde
- Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- Media release: COVID-19: Western Cape Provincial Overview 4
- Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- Media Release: Department of Employment and Labour pays out Covid-19 benefits to workers
- Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde- we need a common resolve to flatten the curve
- Media Alert: Premier Winde to brief the media on the Western Cape Government’s COVID-19 scenario planning and response
- Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- Application process: Spaza Shop Support
- COVID-19: Western Cape Provincial Update 3
- Media Statement: CIPC Certification process for essential service businesses during extended lockdown
- Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- Media Release: Update by Premier Alan Winde on the coronavirus
- Media Release: Update by Premier Alan Winde on the coronavirus
- Media Release: App launched to support entrepreneurs in the Western Cape
- Media Release: Update on the coronavirus-community screening to resume tomorrow
- Media release: Adhere to rental regulations during lockdown period
- Media Release: Update by Premier Alan Winde on the coronavirus-food relief rolling out to hundreds of thousands across the province
- Media Alert: Premier Winde to provide update on Western Cape response to Coronavirus in digital press conference.
- Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde- testing is safe and important in the COVID-19 response
- Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde- World Health Day an opportunity to pay tribute to nurses and focus on our health
- Media Statement: SASSA Statement on Lapsed Temporary Disability Grants during Lockdown
- Media Statement: Interventions to assist the argricultural sector during COVID-19
- Media Statement: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde – over 1000 people screened on first day
- Media Statement: WCED to implement school feeding of vulnerable learners during lockdown
- Media Statement: Additional R53 million allocated to food relief programmes in the Western Cape
- Media Statement: Update on the Coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- Media Statement: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde – Community screening commences today
- Media Statement: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde- call for health professionals to volunteer
- Comment by Premier Alan Winde on regulations around essential goods
- Media Release: Update on the coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde
- Revisions to directions regulating public transport operations during lockdown period
- Circular H43/2020: Policy Guideline related to COVID-19: Personal Protection Guidelines for Government Sectors
- Media Alert: Premier Winde to provide update on Western Cape response to Coronavirus in digital press conference.
- Update on Coronavirus by Premier Alan Winde-protecting frontline services key to providing appropriate healthcare
- Helping businesses understand and adapt to the lockdown regulations
- COVID-19: Municipalities implement wide-ranging interventions to assist communities
Garden Route
- 23 May 2023 Impact-Based Severe Weather Warning: Level 2 for Damaging Waves
- 22 May 2023 Save the Date: Notice of Council Meeting, 30 May 2023 at 10:00
- 19 May 2023 Media Release: Challenges and Solutions: Minister Kubayi Engages with Local Officials and Communities
- 17 May 2023 Media Release: Garden Route and Klein Karoo Tourism Office elevates the region at the 2023 Africa Indaba Show
- 12 May 2023 Media Release: Update 3 on the construction of the GRDM Fire Station
- Impact-Based Severe Weather Warnings: Level 3 Disruptive Rain, Level 2 Damaging Winds and Level 2 Damaging Waves
- Impact-Based Severe Weather Warning: Level 2 for Damaging Waves
- CLOSURE OF OFFICES, FRIDAY, 28 APRIL 2023
- 21 April 2023 Cape EAPrac: Public Participation Process
- 11 April 2023 Media Release: Awareness about Clean Air a priority for Garden Route DM
- 05 April 2023 PUBLIC NOTICE: GRDM OFFICE CLOSURE
- 22 March 2023 Media release: Garden Route District hosts its 2nd Safer Schools Conference
- 17 March 2023 Media Release: Update 2 on the construction of the Garden Route District Municipality Fire Station
- 16 March 2023 Public Notice: ALIENATION OF COUNCIL PROPERTIES
- SPECIAL COUNCIL MEETING at 14 March 2023 at 11:00
- 10 March 2023 Media Release: Load shedding relief: GRDM receives R1.6 million for generators from the WC Government
- 13 February 2023 Media Release: GRDM rolling out R67 million Gwaing Road construction project
- 9 December 2022 Media Release: GRDM Integrated Human Settlements Strategic Plan to be enhanced
- 05 December 2022 WELCOME TO THE GARDEN ROUTE AND KLEIN KAROO, SOUTH AFRICA’S MOST BEAUTIFUL AREA
- 2 December 2022 Media Release: LGSETA conducts another due diligence visit at GRDM
- 24 November 2022 Public Notice: PUBLICATION OF INFORMATION STATEMENT REGARDING THE RAISING OF EXTERNAL LOAN FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF GRDM REGIONAL WASTE MANAGEMENT FACILITY OVER THE 2022/23 – 2024/25 MTREF PERIOD
- 20 October 2022 Media Release: GRDM Executive Mayor wishes the matric class of 2022 the best of luck!
- 19 October 2022 Media Release: Garden Route domestic tourism trip attended by Journalists and Bloggers
- 13 October 2022 Media Release: GRDM Disaster Management Section developed a GreenBook to plan for future climate change
- 27 August 2022 Media Release: The GRDM salutes a true public servant
- 26 July 2022 Media Release: HealthNET Pilot Project Garden Route improves access to care
- 12 July 2022 Media Release: Blanco health outreach to youth
- 11 July 2022 Impact Based Weather Warnings for Western Cape and Namaqua: Yellow level 2: Damaging Waves 12/07/2022 – 14/07/2022
- 6 July 2022 PUBLIC NOTICE: DELAY IN SWITCHOVER OF TELEPHONE SERVICES AT GRDM GEORGE OFFICES
- 6 July 2022 Media Release: Calitzdorp Hot Springs to host a Music, Arts, and Food Gathering with a purpose
- 01 July 2022 Media Release: Garden Route District Municipality launches electronic job application platform
- 28 June 2022 Media Release: Expanded Public Works Programme (EPWP) and SASSETA visit GRDM
- 17 June 2022 Media Release: World Day to combat desertification and drought: Blossom’s Emergency Pipeline Project
- 16 June 2022 Today is Youth Day – Let’s all lead by example
- 13 June 2022 Media Release: Garden Route Skills Mecca Focuses on Renewable Energy
- 13 June 2022 Opportunities For Unemployed Youth in the Western Cape
- 17 May 2022 Impact Based Weather Warnings for Western Cape and Namaqua: 17/05/2022 – 19/05/2022
- 4 May 2022 Media Release: Garden Route and Klein Karoo Tourism currently marketing the region at Indaba in Durban
- 17 March 2022 Media Release: The GRDM Proudly Prepares Itself as a Provider of Sustainable Housing Opportunities
- 15 March 2022 Media Release: NYDA Focusses on Youth Development In The Garden Route
- 15 March 2022 Media Release: Growth And Development Of The Agricultural Sector In The Garden Route
- 14 March 2022 Media Release: Garden Route Skills Mecca Forum Focuses On Youth Development And Agriculture
- 25 February 2022 Public Notice: Demand Database information about Affordable Housing in the Garden Route District
- Save The Date: Garden Route Skills Mecca Forum to Be Held on 25 February
- 21 December 2021 Media Release: SA Harvest reflects on a successful year
- 21 December 2021 Media Release: AVBOB George donated R31 500 to GRDM
- 15 December 2021 Garden Route District Municipality: CLOSURE OF OFFICES
- 15 December 2021 Media Release: WELCOME TO THE MOST BEAUTIFUL PART OF SOUTH AFRICA, THE GARDEN ROUTE
- 10 December 2021 Public Notice: Final Reviewed 2021/2022 Integrated Development Plan
- Save the Date: Special Council Meeting – 10 December 2021 at 11:00 am
- 02 December 2021 Media Release: WELCOME TO THE MOST BEAUTIFUL PART OF SOUTH AFRICA, THE GARDEN ROUTE
- 8 November 2021 Media Release: Ophthalmic service on the road again
- 3 September 2021 Media Release: Tourism for inclusive growth
- 02 September 2021 Media Release: MINISTER SIMMERS VISITS INFORMAL SETTLEMENTS IN THE GARDEN ROUTE
- 30 August 2021 Media Release: Newly appointed MEC of Transport and Public Works visits the Garden Route District
- 17 August 2021 Media Release: New Quarantine and Isolation facility to relieve pressure in the Garden Route
- 11 July 2021 Weather Alert: Impact Based Weather Warnings for Western Cape and Namaqua: Damaging Winds, Damaging Waves and Disruptive Snow
- 7 July 2021 Media Alert: Memorial Service of the late GRDM Fire Chief on 8 July at 10:00am
- 30 June 2021 Media Release: “We are two weeks ahead of schedule” – upgrades at Calitzdorp Spa
- 28 June 2021 Media Alert: Western Cape Human Settlements budget heads to Garden Route
- 25 June 2021 Media Release: Increased vaccine allocation to Rural areas
- 14 June 2021 Media Release: Garden Route COVID Update
- 4 June 2021 Media Release: Garden Route Climate Change Indaba to coincide with the United Nations World Oceans Day
- 21 May 2021 Media Release: Fencing subsidies available – call for applications
- 7 May 2021 Weather Alert: Impact Based Weather Warnings for Western Cape and Namaqua
- 7 May 2021 Media Release: Private healthcare workers to register for COVID-19 vaccine
- 6 May 2021 Weather Alert: Impact Based Weather Warnings for Western Cape and Namaqua
- 5 May 2021 Weather Alert: Impact Based Weather Warnings for Western Cape and Namaqua
- 5 May 2021 Media Release: Cut-off low to cause adverse weather conditions over parts of the Western Cape
- 30 April 2021 Media Release: Adaptive Capacity Facility Climate Resilient Human Settlements Pilot Programme to be project managed by the GRDM
- 30 April 2021 Media Release: Western Cape Premier Alan Wine and Minister Tertuis Simmers visit Garden Route Housing Projects
- 2021 04 23 Save the Date: Council Meeting on 28 April 2021 at 11:00 am
- 23 March 2021 Save the Date: Notice of a Council Meeting on 30 March 2021 at 11:00 am
- 15 March 2021 Media Release: 90 People benefit from a Garden Route District Municipality Road Construction Leadernship
- 15 March 2021 Weather Alert: Weather forecast 15 – 22 March 2021
- 12 March 2021 Public Notice: Municipal Public Accounts Committee (MPAC) Meeting on 23 March 2021 at 10:00 am
- 12 March 2021 Media Release: Garden Route Health Platform Update
- 9 March 2021 Media Release: Thembalethu Bridge upgrade will boost Southern Cape economy
- 8 March 2021 Weather Alert: Weather forecast: 8 March – 14 March 2021
- 9 February 2021 Weather Alert: Impact Based Warning for the Western Cape and Namaqua region
- 27 January 2021 is National Police Day
- 25 January 2021 Media Release: Recent storms in the Klein Karoo caused severe damage to rural roads
- 25 January 2021 Media Release: Ambient Air Quality Monitoring conducted in Louis Fourie Road Mossel Bay
- 25 January 2021 Media Release: Garden Route Investment Prospectus formulated to attract domestic and foreign investment
- 22 January 2021 Weather Alert: Severe Weather Alert: Impact Based Weather Warnings for Western Cape and Namaqua
- 21 January 2021 Weather Alert: Severe Weather Alert: Impact Based Weather Warning for Western Cape and Namaqua
- 14 January 2021 Public Notice: Grant-in-Aid: Call for Proposals
- 13 January 2021 Media Release: Vehicle control points continue as Covid-19 infections stabilise
- 4 January 2021 Media Release : Internal Audit Activity Pass External Quality Assurance Review (QAR) with flying colours
- 31 December 2020 Media Statement: Actions to stop Coronavirus from spreading in the Garden Route
- 22 December 2020 Media Release: Holiday message by the GRDM Executive Mayor, Alderman Memory Booysen
- 18 December 2020 Public Notice: GRDM office closure
- 13 December 2020 Public Notice: Garden Route COVID-19 update: 03 – 10 December 2020
- 11 December 2020 Media Release: COVID-19 Business Safety Kits rolled out in the Garden Route District
- 7 December 2020 Media Release: Adherence to all Health Protocols is critical in combatting COVID-19
- 11 November 2020 Media Release: Garden Route District Community Safety Forum established – another first for the Garden Route
- 27 October Weather Alert: Severe Weather Alert: Impact Based Weather Warning for Western Cape and Namaqua
- 26 October 2020 Media Release: California steaming whilst Knysna and Bitou are reloading for wildfire round number two
- 30 OCTOBER 2020 Council Meeting
- 7 October 2020 Severe Weather Alert: Impact Based Weather Warning for Western Cape and Namaqua
- MEDIA ALERT: Power Town residents and Sonskynvallei Backyard Dwellers in Mossel Bay To Become Homeowners
- 15 September 2020 Media Release: GRDM nominated as an ECO-LOGIC AWARDS finalist
- 17 August 2020 Weather Alert: Western Cape Weather Alert – Snow, High Seas, Damaging Winds and Heavy Rain – 17 August 2020
- 5 June 2020 MEDIA RELEASE/ARTICLE: Recovery of indigenous vegetation following the 2017 wildfire disaster remarkable, but regrowth of invasive alien plants on a large scale a reason for concern
- Severe Weather Alert
- 24 May 2020 Western Cape – Severe Weather Alert
- 21 May 2020 Severe Weather Alert
- 29 April 2020 Council Meeting: 04 May 2020 at 11:00
- Garden Route Business Impact and Continuity Survey March 2020
- Media Release: Health System’s response to physical distancing #STOPTHESPREAD OF COVID-19 GEORGE SUB-DISTRICT
- Council Meeting: Monday, 30 March 2020
- COVID-19 Health and Hygiene Awareness Sessions in the greater Oudtshoorn and Kannaland area
- GRDM Municipal Health Services conducts Corona COVID-19 awareness at St Pauls Primary School
- Garden Route sprekers bemagtig Parkie-prefekte
- Severe Weather Alert: 17 – 18 January 2020
- CLOSURE OF OFFICES FRIDAY, 20 DECEMBER 2019 AT 12:00
- Annual Garden Route Environmental Forum (GREF) hosted in George
- Severe Weather Alert: 17 – 19 December 2019
- Garden Route District Municipality on Springboks winning Rugby World Cup
- 28 May 2019 World No-Tobacco Day 2019
- Garden Route and Klein Karoo Regional Tourism office is currently exhibiting at the World Travel Market Africa
- EPWP Grant Allocation Workshop
- First Youth on the Move event for the district
- Upcoming Garden Route DM Skills Summit – 7 February 2019
- GRDM’s Climate Change Team visits the Klein Karoo Sustainable Dry lands Permaculture Project
- 13 December 2018 CLOSURE OF GARDEN ROUTE DM OFFICES
- GRDM officials excel during 2018 SAIEH
- Public Awareness: Vector Control
- Awareness: Rabies
- Awareness: Interventions by EHPs of the Garden Route District Municipality in prevention of the Cholera
- Tourists welcome in George, Wilderness and Uniondale
- 02 November 2018 No hiking or feeding of Wildlife allowed after fires in the Garden Route
- Severe Weather Alerts issued by the Cape Town Weather Office
- Fires in the Garden Route
- Informal Food Traders from Mossel Bay receive training
- Building Smart Cities in a Smart Region
- World Environmental Health Day celebrated
- GRDM Leadership’s visit to Indonesia
- Severe Weather Alert (7-8 September 2018)
- Press Conference held at GRDM
- Eden DM officially changed to Garden Route District Municipality
- Eden DM performs outstandingly at the SA Toughest Firefighter Alive 2018 competition
- Garden Route DM hosts cross-district support engagement for more effective Integrated Development Planning
- Eden DM Firefighting Team ready to participate in the 2018 Toughest Firefighter Alive Competition
- Good-Bye to a Colleague, Alvin Botha
- 67 Minutes of Charitable Work
- Roads Services Madiba Day
- Eden District Municipal Health Office in Mossel Bay donated dog food to the Mossel Bay SPCA
- Rampbestuur en Brandweer afdelings besoek Van Der Hoven Laerskool
- Municipal Health in George celebrated Mandela Day with clean-up operation
- Eden DM Municipal Health in Hessequa visited Kruisrivier and Goedgegund Primary schools
- Eden DM se Rampbestuurspersoneel besoek die Hansmoeskraal gemeenskap
- Eden DM Head Office staff donated items to a colleague
- Municipal Health officials in Bitou visited the New Life Creche in Qolweni
- Acting Speaker Barend Groenewald donated blankets to each toddler at the Herbertsdale Creche
- Eden DM in collaboration with Oudtshoorn empowered creches in Greater Oudsthoorn
- Executive Mayor of Eden District Municipality launches the Nelson Mandela Centenary 2018 celebration
- Role and interventions by the Eden Municipal Health Department during the Knysna Oyster Festival
- Eden DM nominated as one of the top 5 finalist for Eco Logic Biodiversity Awards
- UPDATE: Eden DM delegation’s visit to China and Hong Kong: 21-29 JUNE 2018
- EXTENSION OF THE LEASE CONTRACT FOR THE PROVISION OF A FIRE STATION
- Eden DM engaging with B-Municipalities to prepare for the Garden Route Investment Conference
- Eden District Municipality name to change to Garden Route District Municipality
- Proposed name change of Eden District Municipality to Garden Route District Municipality
Municipal Health
- 21 April 2023 Media Release: 125 Homeless people attend health education session at George Night Shelter
- 16 March 2023 Media Release: GRDM donates mattresses to Early Childhood Development facilities in Hessequa
- 03 March 2023 Media Release: The effect of loadshedding on Water Quality
- 18 February 2023 Media Release: Measles Awareness Session Held at Rosemore Crèche in George to Promote Prevention Measures
- 10 February 2023 Save the Date: Garden Route District Municipality to embark on an Illegal Dumping Campaign
- 17 December 2022 Media Release: Food safety during load shedding
- 16 December 2022 Media Release: No Pets Allowed – The Rules for Food Premises
- 22 November 2022 Media Release: EHPs working around the clock to address the Scabies outbreak
- 27 October 2022 Media Release: Do you meet the standards for food premises?
- 26 October 2022 Media Release: Kids from Plett Primary School reminded of the importance of clean hands
- 14 October 2022 Media Release: Health Education Committee invited to witness youth who dance with ‘change in mind’
- 6 October 2022 Media Release: Environmental Health Practitioners educate communities in celebration of World Environmental Health Day
- 27 September 2022 Media Release: Food safety during load shedding
- Wrap-up of today’s Environmental Health Day talks by the Executive Manager of Community Services, Clive Africa
- An Environmental Health Practitioner (EHP) explains our role in the Disposal of the Dead
- Prevention and surveillance of Communicable Diseases by Environmental Health Practitioners
- Illegal dumping and its impacts on the health and environment (and our water)
- A snapshot of Vector Control – a function of Environmental Health Practitioners
- The importance of washing hands
- A snapshot of Food Control done by Environmental Health Practitioners
- A snapshot of sampling done by Environmental Health Practitioners
- Theme for World Environmental Health Day
- What is Environmental Health?
- World Environmental Health Day Webinar on 26 September 2022
- 15 September 2022 Media Release: Garden Route District Municipality EHPs conduct health and hygiene education sessions in Kranshoek, Bitou
- 13 September 2022 Media Release: Environmental Health Practitioners monitor river water quality
- 12 September 2022 Media Release: GRDM faced with another tragic loss – Adri Miles passes away
- 30 August 2022 Media Release: GRDM Councillors and officials visit establishments in the Hessequa area
- 27 August 2022 Media Release: The GRDM salutes a true public servant
- 26 July 2022 Media Release: Garden Route District Municipality’s role in managing of human remains
- 13 July 2022 Media Release: GRDM Environmental Health Practitioners annually ensures Knysna Oyster Festival safe
- 12 July 2022 Media Release: Health Surveillance of Premises – places of public gatherings
- 30 June 2022 Media Release: Food safety during load shedding
- 27 June 2022 Media Release: GRDM Environmental Health Practitioners and stakeholders perform collaborative Spaza Blitz in areas of Knysna
- 02 June 2022 Media Release: Crèche surprised with mattress donations by Garden Route District Municipality
- 1 June 2022 Media Release: Environmental Health Practitioners focus on restaurants about safe food handling
- 19 May 2022 Media Release: Garden Route District Air Quality Awareness Campaigns have reached more than 60 000 people so far
- 10 May 2022 Frequently Asked Questions: Rooikat Recycling Project, Great Brak River
- 10 May 2022 Media Release: Garden Route Air Quality complies 100% with NAEIS
- 9 May 2022 Media Release: Several Karoo towns recently visited to create awareness about municipal health
- 5 May 2022 Media Release: Have you washed your hands today?
- 31 March 2022 Media Release: GRDM Environmental Health Practitioners conduct Door-to-Door Campaign on World TB Day
- 30 March 2022 MEDIA RELEASE: ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH PRACTITIONERS ENSURING HYGIENE STANDARDS ARE MAINTAINED AT KKNK AND OTHER FESTIVALS
- 22 February 2022 Media Statement: Garden Route Municipalities not affected by Typhoid Fever
- 28 January 2021 Media Release: Garden Route District Municipality’s role in Heavy Motor Vehicle & Hazardous Materials Incidents
- 28 January 2022 Media Release: New District Health Council introduced
- 14 January 2022 Media Release: Garden Route Air Quality remains tops
- 18 November 2021 Media Release: Typhoid cases in George
- 19 October 2021 Media Release: Garden Route DM prioritises the long-term health and well-being of citizens
- 15 October 2021 Update: Avian Influenza outbreak
- 14 October 2021 Urgent Alert: Suspected outbreak of Avian Influenza
- 27 September 2021 News Release: Garden Route District Municipality’s Environmental Health Practitioners fulfill significant role in Water Quality Monitoring
- 7 July 2021 Public Awareness: The roles and responsibilities of Environmental Health Practitioners in Vector Control
- 2 July 2021 Media Release: GRDM Home Composting Project participants commence with capturing of organic material
- 18 June 2021 Media Release: Environmental Health Practitioners continue to sensitise Garden Routers of a rise in COVID-19 infections
- 10 June 2021 Media Release: Garden Route Clean Fires Campaign reach expands year-on-year
- 10 June 2021 Media Release: Garden Route District Municipality establishes a dispersion modelling function
- 26 March 2021 Media Release: Garden Route at the top of its game in controlling air quality
- 17 March 2021 Media Release: District food control measures remain key to ensuring safe food consumption
- 10 February 2021 Media Statement: Oil smell and possible oil pollution in Dana Bay
- 4 February 2021 Media Release: Eradication of illegal dumping campaign in George extended to end of March 2021
- 4 February 2021 Media Release: Our roles and responsibilities at a residence where someone died of COVID-19
- 2 December 2020 Media Release: GRDM rolls out proactive disinfection activities in George
- 18 November 2020 Media Release: Garden Route District Municipality EHPs receive pepper spray training
- 6 November 2020 Media Release: GRDM Environmental Health Practitioners, SAPS and Local Municipalities visit spaza shops
- 20 October 2020 Invitation to participate in the Household Composting Pilot Project: Zoar (Kannaland Municipality)
- 19 October 2020 Media Release: Reduce, reuse and replant – home composting project rolled out in Bitou
- 16 October 2020 Media Release: Medical male circumcision to benefit men and their partners
- 8 October 2020 Media Statement: Municipal communicators make shocking discoveries at illegal dump site
- 30 September 2020 Media Release: Environmental Health Practitioners still optimistic amidst the pandemic
- 17 September 2020 Awareness: COVID-19 Return to Place of Worship Guideline
- 21 August 2020 Disinfection Activities for the past seven (7) days
- 27 July 2020 Media Release: Those in self-isolation and quarantine in Oudtshoorn stay at home
- (19 – 24 July 2020)Weekly Disinfection Activities
- 14 July 2020 Media Release: Guidelines for businesses offering services such as haircuts, tattoos and manicures
- 14 July 2020 Media Release: Dysselsdorp Soup Kitchens providing a helping hand during the COVID-19 pandemic
- 9 July 2020 Media Release: Essential workers from GRDM continue to do their best to prevent the spread of COVID-19
- Media Release: EPWP essential workers to assist at Covid-19 hotspots in the Garden Route
- 22 June 2020 Invitation to participate in the Household Composting Pilot Project: Bitou and Oudtshoorn Municipalities
- 29 May 2020 Media Release: GRDM Municipal Health Services section educates schools regarding COVID-19
- 20 May 2020 Media Release: Environmental Health Practitioners – Garden Route DM’s frontline workers
- 5 May 2020 Media Release: Effects of the National Lockdown on Air Quality within the Garden Route District
- 30 April 2020 Media Release: Eco-friendly ways of repurposing kitchen scraps and garden waste
- Media Release: Contact tracing for coronavirus (COVID-19): what happens during the procedure?
- Media Release: COVID-19 awareness sessions in the Bitou area
- COVID-19 Multi-Agency Command Centre Established for the Garden Route
- GRDM EHPs continue with the Coronavirus COVID-19 Campaign
- GRDM Municipal Health Services conducts Corona COVID-19 awareness at St Pauls Primary School
- Garden Route Skills Summit cancelled due to growing concerns over COVID-19 VIRUS
- FIRST CASE OF COVID-19 CORONAVIRUS REPORTED IN SOUTH AFRICA
- National Minister of Health – Update on Novel Coronavirus (2019-nC0V)
- Novel Coronavirus (2019-NCoV) Outbreak in China and other countries in the world
- Smutsville and Sizamile Street Vendors receive training
- Most diseases in the world are waterborne
- GRDM EHPs and stakeholders educate ECD representatives regarding requirements of ECD facilities
- FOR PUBLIC COMMENT – Final Draft Garden Route DM 3rd Generation Integrated Waste Management Plan 2020-2024 – Closing 8 November 2019
- Surveillance and Prevention of Communicable Diseases
- Update on the Ambient Air Quality Monitoring: October 2019
- Notice for Public Comment – Public Private Partnership for the Development, Design, Finance, Maintenance and Operation of a new District Regional Landfill Site
- GRDM and Mossel Bay Municipalities launch Schools Composting Programme in Mossel Bay
- Health Surveillance of Premises
- GRDM Disaster Management and Municipal Health officials celebrated Mandela Day on 19 July
- Food scraps have a purpose
- Garden Route District Municipality launches the “World No Tobacco Day Campaign”
- Community members from Thembalethu educated about communicable diseases
- Executive Mayor of GRDM donates 850 potable water containers to Zoar
- Water sample results in the Knysna estuary show improvement
- Media Release: Avian Deaths reported along Divisional Road 1614 caused by Avian Botulism
- Increase in Enteroviral Meningitis cases in Garden Route district
- The risk of using sewage effluent for irrigation purposes
- New developments on the Regulation governing general hygiene requirements for food premises and the transport of food
- GRDM officials excel during 2018 SAIEH
- Arabic posters about health and hygiene distributed to Knysna residents
- Disposal of the Dead
- Public Awareness: Vector Control
- Municipal Health team educates learners of Hoogekraal Primary School about health & hygiene
- Informal Food Traders from Mossel Bay receive training
- Garden Route DM Outreach Programme benefits crèches in the George areas
- World Environmental Health Day celebrated
- World Environmental Health Day Celebrations
- EHPs from Garden Route DM conduct Food Safety Blitz in Knysna
- Garden Route DM participates at the Agricultural Show
- World Environmental Day Celebrated at Plettenberg Bay Secondary School
- Food Safety along the Food Chain explained
- Eden District Municipal Health Office in Mossel Bay donated dog food to the Mossel Bay SPCA
- Municipal Health in George celebrated Mandela Day with clean-up operation
- Eden DM Municipal Health in Hessequa visited Kruisrivier and Goedgegund Primary schools
- Municipal Health officials in Bitou visited the New Life Creche in Qolweni
- Eden DM Mossel Bay donated toiletries to D’Almeida residents
- Role and interventions by the Eden Municipal Health Department during the Knysna Oyster Festival
- Health Surveillance of Premises by Garden Route District Municipality
- Municipal Health Services conducts Health & Hygiene Training at Tapas & Oyster Restaurant in Knysna
- Focus on Waste Management
- Eden DM Mayor Signs Durban Commitment
- Listeriosis Update
- Awareness about World Tuberculosis Day, 24 March 2018
- Eden DM Council approves MOU with Stellenbosch University
- Eden DM Councillors experience the working environment of EHPs in Knysna
- National Children’s Day
- Vehicle Emission Testing
- Eden DM Environmental Health Practitioners held Information Red Meat Traders Workshop in Knysna
- Eden and Sweden to strengthen relations
- Food Safety training provided to food handlers in Oudtshoorn
- PJ Badenhorst Primary School given training through WASH Project
- District celebrates Women’s day
- Eden District Air Quality: Government Institutions prioritise towards healthier communities
- Eden DM EHPs devoted to routine Water Sampling of Coastal Areas
- Eden DM EHPs create awareness about Impetigo in Plettenberg Bay
- Another Greenest District Municipality award the District
- Mossel Bay Hand-Wash Project
- Engagement between Chinese and the Eden District might grow trade
- Illegal Practise – Environmental Health Inspections
- Eden DM procures a Mobile Air Monitoring Station
Disaster Management
- 15 May 2023 Media Release: Informal settlements remain a priority – 1700 Smoke alarms installed to date
- 29 March 2023 Media Release: Garden Route District Municipality supports Western Cape Government’s Water Awareness Campaign in Kannaland
- 10 March 2023 Media Release: Load shedding relief: GRDM receives R1.6 million for generators from the WC Government
- 7 February 2022 Media Release: Garden Route DM continues to assist local municipalities with loadshedding impacts
- 31 January 2023 Public Notice: Garden Route District Municipality telephones offline
- 14 December 2022 Impact Based Warning – Level 6 Severe Thunderstorms
- 13 December 2022 Media Release: Resource management, land restoration and legislation take centre stage in the Garden Route
- 9 December 2022 Media Release: Garden Route DM is installing 700 smoke detectors in Kannaland
- 09 December 2022 Media Release: The effects of drought growing and prolonged electricity disruptions are increasing
- 2022 12 08 Media Statement 5: The majority of beaches have been cleaned of hydrocarbon oil drops
- 5 December 2022 Media Statement 4: Several beaches given the ‘green light’
- 2 December 2022 Media Statement 3: Beach monitoring and clean-up activities continue along the Garden Route coastline
- 01 December 2022 Impact Based Weather Warning: Damaging Winds – 02/12/2022
- 1 December 2022 Media Statement 2: Several beaches re-opened while some still being cleaned from stranded oil
- Impact Based Weather Warning: Veldfire Conditions from 30/11/2022 to 01/12/2022
- 30 November 2022 Media Statement 1: Clean-up of Garden Route beaches underway
- Impact Based Weather Warning: Veldfire Conditions from 28 to 29/11/2022
- Impact Based Weather Warning – Yellow level 1: Damaging Winds on 23 November 2022
- Impact Based Weather Warning – Veld Fire Conditions on 23 November 2022
- 4 November 2022 Media Release: State-of-the-Art Regional Fire Station expected by June 2023
- 13 October 2022 Media Release: GRDM Disaster Management Section developed a GreenBook to plan for future climate change
- 05 October 2022 Media Release: Garden Route District Municipality applies for an Alien Vegetation Control Programme Grant
- 21 September 2022 Media Release: Garden Route District Municipality celebrates Public Service Month through Service Delivery presentations
- 5 August 2022 Media Release: GRDM Executive Mayor welcomes newly appointed District Commissioner of SAPS to the Garden Route district
- 30 June 2022 Media Release: Bojanala Platinum DM pays a visit to Garden Route DM to benchmark emergency-related services
- 22 June 2022 Media Release: Garden Route District sources smoke detectors for Qolweni and Bossiesgif
- 17 June 2022 Media Release: World Day to combat desertification and drought: Blossom’s Emergency Pipeline Project
- 5 May 2022 Impact Based Warning: Veld Fire Conditions
- 15 March 2022 GRDM Media Release: Disaster Management officials presented their 1st First Aid Level 3 Training for the year
- 04 March 2022 Media Release: GRDM Firefighters educate Garden Routers about wildfires in Summer seasons
- 02 February 2022 Media Release: Garden Route District Municipality Once Again Celebrating World Wetlands Day on 02 February
- 01 February 2022 Media Release – GRDM and stakeholders to install smoke detectors in Qolweni, Bitou
- 28 January 2021 Media Release: Garden Route District Municipality’s role in Heavy Motor Vehicle & Hazardous Materials Incidents
- 15 January 2022 Impact Based Warning: Severe Thunderstorms
- 15 December 2021 Media Release: Garden Route DM HAZMAT crash simulation conducted in Hessequa
- 13 December 2021 Media Release: Water flowing in the Olifants River brings some relief to drought-stricken farmers
- 24 November 2021 Impact Based Warning: Level 8 Damaging Winds & Level 2 Damaging Waves
- 23 November 2021 Impact Based Weather Warning – Yellow level 4: Damaging Winds
- 22 November 2021@8H00 Garden Route District Municipality JOC Update
- 20 November 2021 Impact Based Warning – Disruptive Rain
- 27 October 2021 Media Release: First case of Avian Influenza reported in the Garden Route
- 15 October 2021 Update: Avian Influenza outbreak
- 14 October 2021 Urgent Alert: Suspected outbreak of Avian Influenza
- 27 September 2021 Media Release: Vaccination Weekend Garden Route
- 19 July 2021 Impact Based Warnings: Disruptive Waves, Winds, Snow & Rain
- 13 July 2021 Media Release: Development of a strategic framework for an alien and invasive biomass economy
- 7 July 2021 Weather Alert: Impact Based Warning: Veld fire Conditions
- 8 July 2021 Weather Alert: Impact Based Warning: Damaging Winds
- 2 July 2021 Media Release: Covid-19 Vaccines for over 50-year age group
- 29 June 2021 Weather Alert: Impact Based Weather Warning: Damaging Winds
- 28 June 2021 Weather Alert: Impact Based Weather Warning: Damaging Waves
- 24 June 2021 Weather Alert: Impact Based Weather Warnings: Damaging Winds & Damaging Waves
- 18 June 2021 Media Release: Environmental Health Practitioners continue to sensitise Garden Routers of a rise in COVID-19 infections
- 25 May 2021 Media Release: Eighty-year old the first to get jab as part of Phase 2
- 5 May 2021 Weather Alert: Severe Weather Warnings – Disruptive Rain & Damaging Waves
- 7 April 2021 Media Release: Bitou Municipality initiates Kranshoek Pilot Project on Covid-19 Awareness
- 14 March 2021 Weather Alert: Severe weather alert: Impact Based Weather Warnings for Western Cape and Namaqua (14-15 March 2021)
- 12 March 2021 Weather Alert: Severe Weather Alert: Veld Fires
- 24 February 2021 Weather Alert: Severe Weather Alert – Damaging winds
- 19 February 2021 Media Release: Garden Route DM and Local Municipalities form partnership with a NPO and the private sector, to provide food assistance to Garden Routers
- 5 February 2021 Media Release: Garden Route Health Platform Update
- 31 January 2021 Weather Alert: Severe Weather Alert – Veld Fire Conditions
- 25 January 2021 Media release: Garden Route Health platform update
- 20 November 2020 Weather Warnings for Western Cape and Namaqua
- 16 November 2020 Severe Weather Alert – Disruptive Rain
- 13 November 2020 Media Release: Garden Routers join efforts to remove nurdles from Mossel Bay and Hessequa coastline
- 13 November 2020 Severe Weather Alert: Impact Based Warning – Veld Fire Conditions
- 30 September 2020 Severe Weather Alerts: Disruptive Snow and Rain & Damaging Winds
- 28 September 2020 Weather Forecast for the Week (28 September to 2 October 2020)
- 12 September 2020 Severe Weather Alerts: High Seas, Veld Fire Conditions & Damaging Winds
- 7 September 2020 Media Release: Donations to vulnerable communities welcomed
- 31 August 2020 Weather Alert: Weather Forecast for the Week & Severe Weather Alerts
- Severe Weather Alert – Damaging Winds
- 21 August 2020 Disinfection Activities for the past seven (7) days
- Weather Alert: Severe Weather Alerts – High Seas, Heavy Rain & Flooding and Snow – 18 AUgust 2020
- 17 August 2020 Severe Weather Alerts: Damaging wind, storm surges, heavy rain, high seas, snow and flooding
- 7 August 2020 GRDM disinfection activities for the past 7 days
- 8 August 2020 Severe Weather Alert: Damaging Winds
- 4 August 2020 Media Release: How Red Dot Transport operates in the Garden Route
- (19 – 24 July 2020)Weekly Disinfection Activities
- 13 July 2020 Media Release: Understanding drought, the frequency of it, vulnerability and how the Garden Route as a region can adapt to become more resilient
- 13 July 2020 Severe Weather Warnings – Storm Surges, High Seas & Damaging Winds
- 10 July 2020 Severe Weather Alert: Damaging Winds
- 9 July 2020 Media Release: Essential workers from GRDM continue to do their best to prevent the spread of COVID-19
- 16 June 2020 PRESS STATEMENT: First Positive Covid-19 case at Garden Route District Municipality and Temporary Closure of Head-Office
- 15 June 2020 DSD donates essential food items to homeless shelters in the Garden Route district
- 8 June 2020 Severe Weather Alerts (Strong Winds & Veld Fire Conditions)
- 26 May 2020 Media Release: Ecological grief sets in as the lockdown highlights the looming plight of greater humanity – the destruction of our environment
- 15 May 2020 Call for donations
- 15 May 2020 GRDM Disaster Management officials placed at municipalities to assist with disaster management
- 9 April 2020 Media Release: Garden Route DM purchases half a million rand worth of essential goods for the vulnerable
- Media Release: COVID-19 awareness sessions in the Bitou area
- Media Release: Health System’s response to physical distancing #STOPTHESPREAD OF COVID-19 GEORGE SUB-DISTRICT
- COVID-19 Multi-Agency Command Centre Established for the Garden Route
- COVID-19 Health and Hygiene Awareness Sessions in the greater Oudtshoorn and Kannaland area
- GRDM EHPs continue with the Coronavirus COVID-19 Campaign
- FIRST CASE OF COVID-19 CORONAVIRUS REPORTED IN SOUTH AFRICA
- Garden Route DM hosts United Nations experts on Risk Management, Sustainability and Urban Resilience
- National Minister of Health – Update on Novel Coronavirus (2019-nC0V)
- Disaster Management Graduate Internship Programme
- Severe Weather Alert: 17 – 19 December 2019
- Severe weather alert issued by the Cape Town Weather Office 2019/11/12 – 2019/11/13
- Severe weather alert issued by the Cape Town Weather Office 2019/11/12 – 2019/11/13
- Garden Route aims to find environmental solutions
- Weather Alert – Damaging Winds
- Garden Route Environmental Forum launches extensive landowner assistance programme
- South African Weather Service Update – Higher sea levels expected between 11:00 and 13:00 today
- GRDM Disaster Management and Municipal Health officials celebrated Mandela Day on 19 July
- Severe Weather Alert – High Seas
- Garden Route District Municipality’s Nina Viljoen now “Dr Nina Viljoen”
- Severe Weather Alert
- Severe Weather Alerts
- Severe Weather Alert
- Severe Weather Alert
- GRDM is taking proactive steps to deal with climate change
- Severe Weather Alert
- Destruction of ecological infrastructure worsens the impact of floods
- Are we better prepared to deal with fire disasters?
- Weather Alert – Heavy Rain
- Wildfire in Ruitersbos, Mossel Bay
- Forum to commemorate the Knysna fires of 7 June 2017
- Executive Mayor of GRDM donates 850 potable water containers to Zoar
- Severe Weather Alert
- Severe Weather Alert
- WARNING -Veld Fire Conditions
- Update on the Kannaland water shortages and the region’s water status
- Environmental management is key to the Garden Route future
- GRDM’s Climate Change Team visits the Klein Karoo Sustainable Dry lands Permaculture Project
- Wilderness beach awarded “Pilot Blue Flag” certification
- Severe Weather Warning
- Firefighters battle blazes for a month
- Severe Weather Alert
- CONTROLLED FIRES ARE BANNED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE
- Knysna – Smoke emissions caused by biomass burning at saw mill
- Severe Weather Alert
- GARDEN ROUTE WILDFIRES OF OCTOBER/NOVEMBER 2018
- NO FIREWORKS, CRACKERS OR CHINESE LANTERNS ON GUY FAWKES OR ANY OTHER DAY
- Urgent Notification: Visitors travelling to the Garden Route and Klein Karoo region
- Severe Weather Alerts issued by the Cape Town Weather Office
- Fly-by in Memory of WOF Firefighting Pilot – Nico Heyns
- Prestigious Wilderness Blue Flag Once Again to Fly during the 2018/19 Blue Flag Season
- Garden Route DM sponsors R100 000 to 2018 Fire Management Symposium – full report
- Garden Route District Municipality sponsors R100 000 to the 2018 Fire Management Symposium
- Severe Weather Alert (7-8 September 2018)
- Severe Weather Alert (7-8 September 2018)
- Rampbestuur en Brandweer afdelings besoek Van Der Hoven Laerskool
- Eden DM se Rampbestuurspersoneel besoek die Hansmoeskraal gemeenskap
- Declaring a Local Disaster
- Eden DM Mayor Signs Durban Commitment
Severe Weather Alert
- 01 June 2023 Impact-Based Severe Weather Warning: Level 2 for Damaging Waves
- 05 April 2023 Impact Based Severe Weather Warning: Veld Fire Conditions
- 23 March 2023 Impact Based Warning – Level 2 for Damaging Winds
- 13 March 2023 Impact Based Warning – Level 2 for Damaging Winds
- 14 December 2022 Impact Based Warning – Level 6 Severe Thunderstorms
- 13 December 2022 Impact Based Warning – L3 Severe Thunderstorms
- 9 December 2022 Impact Based Warning – L3 & L5 Severe Thunderstorms
- 01 December 2022 Impact Based Weather Warning: Damaging Winds – 02/12/2022
- Impact Based Weather Warning: Veldfire Conditions from 30/11/2022 to 01/12/2022
- Impact Based Weather Warning: Veldfire Conditions from 28 to 29/11/2022
- Impact Based Weather Warning – Yellow level 1: Damaging Winds on 23 November 2022
- Impact Based Weather Warning – Veld Fire Conditions on 23 November 2022
- 14 November 2022 Impact Based Weather Warning – Veldfire Conditions – Valid 15/11/2022
- 2 November 2022 Impact Based Weather Warning – Severe Thunderstorms
- 31 October 2022 Impact Based Weather Warning – Severe Thunderstorms
- 11 July 2022 Impact Based Weather Warnings for Western Cape and Namaqua: Yellow level 2: Damaging Waves 12/07/2022 – 14/07/2022
- 22 June 2022 Impact Based Weather Warning for Disruptive Rain: 23/06/2022 – 24/06/2022
- 10 June 2022 Impact Based Weather Warning: Damaging Winds 12/06/2022 – 14/06/2022
- 9 June 2022 Media Release: Series of cold fronts headed for South Africa
- 17 May 2022 Impact Based Weather Warnings for Western Cape and Namaqua: 17/05/2022 – 19/05/2022
- 06 May 2022 Impact Based Weather Warnings for Western Cape and Namaqua (Yellow level 2: Disruptive Rain)
- 5 May 2022 Impact Based Warning: Veld Fire Conditions
- 11 March 2022 Impact Based Warning: Veldfire Conditions
- 08 February 2022 Impact Based Warning: Veld Fire Conditions
- 07 February 2022 Impact Based Warning: Veld Fire Conditions
- 02 February 2022 Impact Based Warning: Level 2 Disruptive Rain
- 01 February 2022 Impact Based Weather Warnings for Western Cape and Namaqua: Yellow level 2: Disruptive Rain
- 31 January 2022 Weather Advisory: Western Cape and Namaqua
- 21 January 2022 Impact Based Weather Warnings for Western Cape and Namaqua: Yellow level 2: Damaging Waves
- 21 January 2022 Weather Advisory: Western Cape and Namaqua
- 20 January 2022 Impact Based Warning – Veld Fire Conditions
- 19 January 2022 Impact Based Warning: Veld Fire Conditions
- 17 January 2022 Impact Based Weather Warnings for Western Cape and Namaqua: Veld Fire Conditions
- 17 January 2022 Impact Based Weather Warnings for Western Cape and Namaqua: Yellow level 2: Damaging Waves
- 15 January 2022 Impact Based Warning: Severe Thunderstorms
- 13 January 2022 Weather Advisory for the Western Cape and Namaqualand Region
- 10 January 2022 Impact Based Warning: Severe Thunderstorms
- 14 December 2021 Impact Based Weather Warnings for Western Cape and Namaqua: Yellow level 2: Damaging Winds
- 13 December 2021 Impact Based Weather Warnings for Western Cape and Namaqua: Yellow level 1: Severe Thunderstorms
- 3 December 2021 Impact Based Weather Warnings for Western Cape and Namaqua: Yellow level 2: Severe Thunderstorms
- 24 November 2021 Impact Based Warning: Level 8 Damaging Winds & Level 2 Damaging Waves
- 23 November 2021 Impact Based Weather Warning – Yellow level 4: Damaging Winds
- 20 November 2021 Impact Based Warning – Disruptive Rain
- 16 November 2021 Impact Based Warning: Damaging Winds
- 25 October 2021 Impact Based Weather Warnings for Western Cape and Namaqua: Yellow level 2: Damaging Winds
- 20 October 2021 Impact Based Warning – Severe Thunderstorms
- 13 October 2021 Impact Based Weather Warnings for Western Cape and Namaqua: Yellow level 2: Damaging Winds
- 9 September 2021 Weather Alert: Severe Weather Warnings – Veld Fire Conditions
- 25 August 2021 Impact Based Warning: Veld Fire Conditions
- 18 August 2021 Impact Based Weather Warning: Disruptive Rain
- 10 August 2021 Weather Advisory: Western Cape and Namaqua
- 26 July 2021 Weather Alert: Impact Based Weather Warnings for Western Cape and Namaqua: Veld Fire Conditions
- 11 July 2021 Weather Alert: Impact Based Weather Warnings for Western Cape and Namaqua: Damaging Winds, Damaging Waves and Disruptive Snow
- 24 June 2021 Weather Alert: Impact Based Weather Warnings for Western Cape and Namaqua: Yellow level 2: Damaging Waves
- 20 June 2021 Weather Alert: Impact Based Weather Warnings for Western Cape and Namaqua: Veld Fire Conditions & Damaging Waves
- 21 June 2021 Weather Alert: Impact Based Weather Warnings for Western Cape and Namaqua: Yellow level 2: Damaging Winds
- 3 June 2021 Weather Alert: Impact Based Warning: Damaging Waves
- 20 May 2021 Weather Alert: Impact Based Weather Warnings for Western Cape and Namaqua
- 7 May 2021 Weather Alert: Impact Based Weather Warnings for Western Cape and Namaqua
- 7 May 2021 Weather Alert: Impact Based Weather Warnings for Western Cape and Namaqua
- 6 May 2021 Weather Alert: Impact Based Weather Warnings for Western Cape and Namaqua
- 5 May 2021 Weather Alert: Impact Based Weather Warnings for Western Cape and Namaqua
- 5 May 2021 Media Release: Cut-off low to cause adverse weather conditions over parts of the Western Cape
- 4 May 2021 Weather Alert: Impact Based Weather Warnings for Western Cape and Namaqua
- 15 March 2021 Weather Alert: Impact-based warning: Rain which could lead to localised flooding- Western Cape Province
- 14 March 2021 Weather Alert: Severe weather alert: Impact Based Weather Warnings for Western Cape and Namaqua (14-15 March 2021)
- 24 February 2021 Weather Alert: Severe Weather Alert – Damaging winds
- 9 February 2021 Weather Alert: Impact Based Warning for the Western Cape and Namaqua region
- 21 February 2021 Weather Alert: Weather Advisory: Western Cape and Namaqua
- 31 January 2021 Weather Alert: Severe Weather Alert – Veld Fire Conditions
- 22 January 2021 Weather Alert: Severe Weather Alert: Impact Based Weather Warnings for Western Cape and Namaqua
- 21 January 2021 Weather Alert: Severe Weather Alert: Impact Based Weather Warning for Western Cape and Namaqua
- 27 October 2020 Weather Alert: Warning (colour coded red), indicating “take action” – 27 October 2020
- 27 October Weather Alert: Severe Weather Alert: Impact Based Weather Warning for Western Cape and Namaqua
- 7 October 2020 Severe Weather Alert: Impact Based Weather Warning for Western Cape and Namaqua
- 23 September 2020 Weather Alert: Damaging Winds – 25 September 2020
- 12 September 2020 Weather Alert: Severe Weather Alert, Veld Fire Conditions – 12 September 2020
- Weather Alert: Severe Weather Alerts – High Seas, Heavy Rain & Flooding and Snow – 18 AUgust 2020
- 17 August 2020 Weather Alert: Western Cape Weather Alert – Snow, High Seas, Damaging Winds and Heavy Rain – 17 August 2020
- 12 August 2020 Weather Alert: Severe Weather Alert: Damaging Winds – 12 August 2020
- 6 July 2020 Severe Weather Alert: 09/07/2020
- 27/06/20 Severe Weather Alert
- 28/06/20 Severe Weather Alert
- 27/06/2020 Severe Weather Alert
- 11 June 2020 Severe Weather Alert
- Severe Weather Alert
- 24 May 2020 Western Cape – Severe Weather Alert
- 21 May 2020 Severe Weather Alert
- Cape Town Weather Office Alert – Damaging Winds
- Severe Weather Alert – Advisory
- Severe Weather Alert: 17 – 18 January 2020
- Severe Weather Alert: Extreme Heat
- Severe Weather Alert: Veld Fire Conditions
- Severe Weather Alert: 17 – 19 December 2019
- Severe Weather Alert – Heat Wave
- Weather Alert – Damaging Winds
- Severe Weather Alert
- Severe Weather Alert
- Severe Weather Alert
- Severe Weather Alerts
- Severe Weather Alert
- Severe Weather Alert
- Severe Weather Alert
- WARNING -Veld Fire Conditions
- Severe Weather Alert
- Severe Weather Alerts issued by the Cape Town Weather Office
- Severe Weather Alert (7-8 September 2018)
Council
- 02 June 2023 Public Notice: Special Council Meeting – 09 June 2023 at 09:00
- 30 May 2023 Media Release: Alderlady Ndayi supports Early Childhood Development in Kurland
- 22 May 2023 Save the Date: Notice of Council Meeting, 30 May 2023 at 10:00
- 02 May 2023 Public Notice: Special Council Meeting – 09 May 2023 at 11:00
- SPECIAL COUNCIL MEETING at 20 April 2023 at 10:00
- 22 March 2023 Save the Date: Notice of Council Meeting, 28 March 2023 at 10:00
- SPECIAL COUNCIL MEETING at 14 March 2023 at 11:00
- 21 February 2023 Save the Date: Notice – Council Meeting, 27 February 2023 at 11:00
- 25 January 2023 Notice: Council Meeting – 30 January 2023 at 10:00
- 25 December 2022 𝗠𝗘𝗥𝗥𝗬 𝗖𝗛𝗥𝗜𝗦𝗧𝗠𝗔𝗦!
- 8 December 2022 Save the Date: Notice – Council Meeting on 14 December 2022 at 10:00
- 8 December 2022: Special Council Meeting at 15h00
- 15 November 2022 Save the Date: Notice – Special Council Meeting on 21 November 2022 at 10:00
- 2 November 2022 Save the Date: Continuation of Council Meeting – 7/11/2022 at 9:00
- 28 October 2022 Save the Date: MPAC Meeting on 31 October 2022 at 10:00 am
- 19 October 2022 Save the Date: Notice – District Council Meeting on 25 October 2022 at 11h00
- 19 August 2022 Save the Date: Notice – Council Meeting – 24 August 2022 – 11:00
- 20 July 2022 Save the Date: Council Meeting – 27 July 2022 at 11:00 am
- 20 June 2022 Save the Date: Council Meeting – 22 June 2022 at 11:00
- 15 June 2022 Save the Date: Special Council Meeting – 17 June 2022 at 11:00
- 14 June 2022 Continuation of Special Council Meeting – 17 June 2022
- 13 June 2022 Media Release: GRDM Council and Staff mourns the sudden passing of an iron lady, Alderlady Mercia Draghoender
- 2 June 2022 Save the Date: Continuation of a Council Meeting – 07 June 2022 at 09:00
- 23 May 2022 Save the Date – Notice of Council Meeting – 27 May 2022 at 11:00
- 06 May 2022 – Save the date – Notice of Special Council Meeting – 13 May 2022
- 19 April 2022 – Save the Date – Notice of Council Meeting: 26 April 2022 at 11:00
- 23 March 2022 Save the Date – Notice of Council Meeting – 29 March 2022 at 11:00
- 16 February 2022 Save the Date – Council Meeting: 21 February 2022 at 11:00
- 19 January 2022 Save the Date: Council Meeting – 25 January 2022 at 11:00
- Save the Date: Special Council Meeting – 10 December 2021 at 11:00 am
- 26 November 2021 Media Release: Garden Route District Municipality council inaugurated – leaders elected
- 25 November 2021 Acceptance Speech – Executive Mayor, Alderman Memory Booysen
- 25 November 2021 Save the Date: Garden Route District Municipal Council Inaugural Meeting
- 7 October 2021 Save the Date: Special Council Meeting – 13 October 2021 at 11:00 am
- 29 September 2021 Speech by Executive Mayor at the 2016/2017 -2021/2022 final Garden Route District Municipality Council Meeting
- 29 September 2021 at 15:00 Save the Date: Council Meeting
- 18 August 2021 Save the Date: Notice of Council Meeting – 24 August 2021 at 11:00
- 20 July 2021 Save the Date: Notice of Council Meeting – 28 July 2021 at 11:00
- 22 June 2021 Executive Mayor’s Speech a the GRDM Council Meeting
- 15 June 2021 Save the Date: Council Meeting on 22 June 2021 at 11:00am
- 25 May 2021 Executive Mayor’s Speech at the GRDM Council Meeting
- 20 May 2021 Save the Date: Council Meeting on 25 May 2021 at 11:00 am
- 28 April 2021 Executive Mayor’s Speech – GRDM Council Meeting
- 2021 04 23 Save the Date: Council Meeting on 28 April 2021 at 11:00 am
- 9 April 2021 Obituary: ‘A servant of the people, a library containing a wealth of knowledge’ – GRDM Cllr Klaas Windvogel passes away
- 7 April 2021 Public Notice: 2019/2020 Annual Report & 2019/2020 Oversight Report
- 23 March 2021 Save the Date: Notice of a Council Meeting on 30 March 2021 at 11:00 am
- 11 March 2021 Public Notice: Revised SDBIP for 2020/2021 approved by Council
- 22 February 2021 Save the Date: Garden Route District Municipality Notice Nr 10/2021
- 22 January 2021 Media Release: New Councillors sworn it at GRDM 1st Council Meeting of 2021
- 22 January 2021 Executive Mayor’s Speech – 1st GRDM Council Meeting of 2021
- 22 January 2021 Save the Date: Notice of a Council meeting at 11:00 am
- 9 December 2020 Executive Mayor’s Speech – GRDM Council meeting
- Address by Executive Mayor, Alderman Memory Booysen, at the Council Meeting today
- 8 December 2020 Save the date: Memorial Service of the late Councillor Mputumi Putco Mapitiza
- 10 December 2020 Save the Date: Notice of a Council Meeting
- 3 December 2020 Media Release: Garden Route DM loses Councillor to COVID-19
- 23 November 2020 Notice of a Council meeting on 26 November 2020 at 14:00
- 30 OCTOBER 2020 Council Meeting
- 22 September 2020 Notice of Council Meeting taking place on 30 September 2020 at 11:00
- 21 August 2020 Notice of a Council Meeting on 25 August 2020 at 14:00
- 27 July 2020 Speech by Mayor Booysen at an Ordinary Council Meeting of Garden Route DM
- 27 July 2020 Media Release: Alderlady status conferred upon two (2) additional Councillors of the Garden Route District Municipality
- 21 July 2020 Notice of Council Meeting on 27 July 2020 at 11:00
- 30 June 2020 Speech by Executive Mayor, Alderman Memory Booysen – Garden Route DM Council Meeting
- 30 June 2020 Media Release: Alderman/Alderlady status conferred upon seven (7) Councillors of the Garden Route District Municipality
- 30 JUNE 2020 AT 14:00 NOTICE OF A COUNCIL MEETING
- 25 May 2020 Notice of Council Meeting
- 29 April 2020 Council Meeting: 04 May 2020 at 11:00
- Speech by Mayor Booysen at the 21st Council Meeting of Garden Route DM
- GRDM Council remembers Cllr Nomhiki Jacobs as passionate public representative
- Council Meeting: Monday, 30 March 2020
- Ordinary Council Meeting: 24 January 2020 at 12:00
- Council Meeting: 13 December 2019
- Notice of a Special Council Meeting on 27 November 2019 at 11:00
- Notice of a Special Council Meeting on 22 October 2019 at 11:00
- Council Meeting: 27 August 2019
- Special Council Meeting: 23 August 2019
- Special Council Meeting: 23 July 2019
- Both parties in agreement when electing New Speaker
- 27 May 2019 at 11:00
- Notice of the election of Speaker of Garden Route District Municipality
- Public Notice: Tabling of 2017/18 Annual Report of Garden Route DM
- Special Council Meeting Currently Underway at GRDM
- Eden DM officially changed to Garden Route District Municipality
- Acting Speaker Barend Groenewald donated blankets to each toddler at the Herbertsdale Creche
- Eden DM in collaboration with Oudtshoorn empowered creches in Greater Oudsthoorn
- Executive Mayor of Eden District Municipality launches the Nelson Mandela Centenary 2018 celebration
- UPDATE: Eden DM delegation’s visit to China and Hong Kong: 21-29 JUNE 2018
- Acting Speaker unanimously elected by Council
- Fencing subsidies provided by Eden DM
- Eden DM pilots a ‘paperless’ system
- Eden DM Firefighters shown dignity and respect by Council and Management
- Eden District Municipality name to change to Garden Route District Municipality
- 2016/17 – 2021/22 Councillors inaugurated
SAWS
- 3 June 2023 Impact-Based Severe Weather Warning: Level 2 for Damaging Waves & Winds
- 01 June 2023 Impact-Based Severe Weather Warning: Level 2 for Damaging Waves
- 23 May 2023 Impact-Based Severe Weather Warning: Level 2 for Damaging Waves
- Impact-Based Severe Weather Warnings: Level 3 Disruptive Rain, Level 2 Damaging Winds and Level 2 Damaging Waves
- Impact-Based Severe Weather Warning: Level 2 for Damaging Waves
- 20 April 2023 Impact Based Severe Weather Warning: Level 2 for Damaging Winds
- 05 April 2023 Impact Based Severe Weather Warning: Veld Fire Conditions
- 23 March 2023 Impact Based Warning – Level 2 for Damaging Winds
- 13 March 2023 Impact Based Warning – Level 2 for Damaging Winds
- 14 December 2022 Impact Based Warning – Level 6 Severe Thunderstorms
- 13 December 2022 Impact Based Warning – L3 Severe Thunderstorms
- 9 December 2022 Impact Based Warning – L3 & L5 Severe Thunderstorms
- Impact Based Weather Warning – Veld Fire Conditions on 23 November 2022
- 14 November 2022 Impact Based Weather Warning – Veldfire Conditions – Valid 15/11/2022
- 2 November 2022 Impact Based Weather Warning – Severe Thunderstorms
- 31 October 2022 Impact Based Weather Warning – Severe Thunderstorms
- 26 September 2022 Impact Based Severe Weather Warning: Damaging Winds
- 21 September 2022 Impact Based Severe Weather Warning: Veld Fire Conditions
- 05 September 2022 Impact Based Severe Weather Warning: Damaging Winds and Veld Fire Conditions
- 2 September 2022 Impact Based Severe Weather Warning: Damaging Winds
- 1 September 2022 Impact Based Severe Weather Warning: Veld Fire Conditions
- 31 August 2022 Impact Based Severe Weather Warning: Damaging Winds
- 23 August 2022 Impact Based Severe Weather Warning: Veld Fire Conditions
- 17 August 2022 Impact Based Severe Weather Warning: Damaging Winds
- 16 August 2022 Impact Based Severe Weather Warning: Damaging Winds and Disruptive Rain
- 11 July 2022 Impact Based Weather Warnings for Western Cape and Namaqua: Yellow level 2: Damaging Waves 12/07/2022 – 14/07/2022
- 22 June 2022 Impact Based Weather Warning for Disruptive Rain: 23/06/2022 – 24/06/2022
- 9 June 2022 Media Release: Series of cold fronts headed for South Africa
- 17 May 2022 Impact Based Weather Warnings for Western Cape and Namaqua: 17/05/2022 – 19/05/2022
- 06 May 2022 Impact Based Weather Warnings for Western Cape and Namaqua (Yellow level 2: Disruptive Rain)
- 5 May 2022 Impact Based Warning: Veld Fire Conditions
- 11 March 2022 Impact Based Warning: Veldfire Conditions
- 08 February 2022 Impact Based Warning: Veld Fire Conditions
- 07 February 2022 Impact Based Warning: Veld Fire Conditions
- 02 February 2022 Impact Based Warning: Level 2 Disruptive Rain
- 01 February 2022 Impact Based Weather Warnings for Western Cape and Namaqua: Yellow level 2: Disruptive Rain
- 31 January 2022 Weather Advisory: Western Cape and Namaqua
- 21 January 2022 Impact Based Weather Warnings for Western Cape and Namaqua: Yellow level 2: Damaging Waves
- 21 January 2022 Weather Advisory: Western Cape and Namaqua
- 20 January 2022 Impact Based Warning – Veld Fire Conditions
- 19 January 2022 Impact Based Warning: Veld Fire Conditions
- 17 January 2022 Impact Based Weather Warnings for Western Cape and Namaqua: Veld Fire Conditions
- 17 January 2022 Impact Based Weather Warnings for Western Cape and Namaqua: Yellow level 2: Damaging Waves
- 15 January 2022 Impact Based Warning: Severe Thunderstorms
- 13 January 2022 Weather Advisory for the Western Cape and Namaqualand Region
- 10 January 2022 Impact Based Warning: Severe Thunderstorms
- 14 December 2021 Impact Based Weather Warnings for Western Cape and Namaqua: Yellow level 2: Damaging Winds
- 13 December 2021 Impact Based Weather Warnings for Western Cape and Namaqua: Yellow level 1: Severe Thunderstorms
- 3 December 2021 Impact Based Weather Warnings for Western Cape and Namaqua: Yellow level 2: Severe Thunderstorms
- 24 November 2021 Impact Based Warning: Level 8 Damaging Winds & Level 2 Damaging Waves
- 23 November 2021 Impact Based Weather Warning – Yellow level 4: Damaging Winds
- 16 November 2021 Impact Based Warning: Damaging Winds
- 25 October 2021 Impact Based Weather Warnings for Western Cape and Namaqua: Yellow level 2: Damaging Winds
- 20 October 2021 Impact Based Warning – Severe Thunderstorms
- 13 October 2021 Impact Based Weather Warnings for Western Cape and Namaqua: Yellow level 2: Damaging Winds
- 13 October 2021 Impact Based Weather Warnings for Western Cape and Namaqua: Veld Fire Conditions
- 10 September 2021 Weather Alert: Severe Weather Warnings – Veld Fire Conditions
- 9 September 2021 Weather Alert: Severe Weather Warnings – Veld Fire Conditions
- 25 August 2021 Impact Based Warning: Veld Fire Conditions
- 24 August 2021 Impact Based Weather Warnings: Damaging Waves & Disruptive Snow
- 18 August 2021 Impact Based Weather Warning: Disruptive Rain
- 10 August 2021 Weather Advisory: Western Cape and Namaqua
- 26 July 2021 Weather Alert: Impact Based Weather Warnings for Western Cape and Namaqua: Veld Fire Conditions
- 11 July 2021 Weather Alert: Impact Based Weather Warnings for Western Cape and Namaqua: Damaging Winds, Damaging Waves and Disruptive Snow
- 24 June 2021 Weather Alert: Impact Based Weather Warnings for Western Cape and Namaqua: Yellow level 2: Damaging Waves
- 20 June 2021 Weather Alert: Impact Based Weather Warnings for Western Cape and Namaqua: Veld Fire Conditions & Damaging Waves
- 21 June 2021 Weather Alert: Impact Based Weather Warnings for Western Cape and Namaqua: Yellow level 2: Damaging Winds
- 20 May 2021 Weather Alert: Impact Based Weather Warnings for Western Cape and Namaqua
- 7 May 2021 Weather Alert: Impact Based Weather Warnings for Western Cape and Namaqua
- 7 May 2021 Weather Alert: Impact Based Weather Warnings for Western Cape and Namaqua
- 6 May 2021 Weather Alert: Impact Based Weather Warnings for Western Cape and Namaqua
- 5 May 2021 Weather Alert: Impact Based Weather Warnings for Western Cape and Namaqua
- 5 May 2021 Media Release: Cut-off low to cause adverse weather conditions over parts of the Western Cape
- 4 May 2021 Weather Alert: Impact Based Weather Warnings for Western Cape and Namaqua
- 19 April 2021 Weather Alert: Weather forecast
- 19 April 2021 Weather Alert: Impact Based Weather Warnings for Western Cape and Namaqua
- 15 March 2021 Weather Alert: Impact-based warning: Rain which could lead to localised flooding- Western Cape Province
- 15 March 2021 Weather Alert: Weather forecast 15 – 22 March 2021
- 14 March 2021 Weather Alert: Severe weather alert: Impact Based Weather Warnings for Western Cape and Namaqua (14-15 March 2021)
- 8 March 2021 Weather Alert: Weather forecast: 8 March – 14 March 2021
- 24 February 2021 Weather Alert: Severe Weather Alert – Damaging winds
- 20 November 2020 Weather Warnings for Western Cape and Namaqua
Fire Fighting
- 31 May 2023 Media Release: Little Crosses Pre-Primary School visits Garden Route District Municipality’s Fire Services
- 12 May 2023 Media Release: Fire Awareness session done at the “Draadkar” Festival in Hoogekraal
- 12 May 2023 Media Release: Update 3 on the construction of the GRDM Fire Station
- 8 May 2023 Media Release: Garden Route District Firefighters participate in the International Firefighters Day event
- 27 March 2023 Media Release: Fire Emergency Evacuation Drill Training conducted at the Frail Care Centre
- 17 March 2023 Media Release: Update 2 on the construction of the Garden Route District Municipality Fire Station
- 8 February 2023 Media Release: Construction of the new Garden Route District Municipality Fire Station underway
- 9 December 2022 Media Release: Garden Route DM is installing 700 smoke detectors in Kannaland
- 9 December 2022 Media Release: GRDM is gearing up for the SUMMER SEASON!
- 7 October 2022 Media Release: Former Garden Route District Municipality Senior Firefighter, Denver Moses, passes away
- 21 September 2022 Media Release: Garden Route District Municipality Firefighters deliver outstanding performance at TFA-SA
- 21 September 2022 Media Release: Garden Route District Municipality celebrates Public Service Month through Service Delivery presentations
- 5 August 2022 Media Release: GRDM Firefighters perform well at the Dräger Fire Combat & Rescue Challenge
- 30 June 2022 Media Release: Bojanala Platinum DM pays a visit to Garden Route DM to benchmark emergency-related services
- 26 April 2022 Media Release: Best of luck Emile Conrad! Keep our flag high!
- 12 April 2022 Media Release: GRDM Firefighters present Fire Safety and Fire Prevention educational sessions to Garden Routers
- 04 March 2022 Media Release: GRDM Firefighters educate Garden Routers about wildfires in Summer seasons
- 03 March 2022 Public Notice: Application for consolidation, rezoning and consent use: Erven 22494 and 22495, George
- Fire Update 3: Klein Bavaria on 11 January 2022 at 10:55 am (Closing report)
- 9 December 2021 Media Release: Seasonal Firefighters appointed to assist the Garden Route over the fire season
- 5 November 2021 Media Release: GRDM Firefighters perform outstandingly in a Fire Combat and Rescue Challenge
- 03 November 2021 Media Release: Firefighters from Garden Route DM educate the youth and elderly about fires
- 30 September 2021 Media Release: Garden Route DM’s long-awaited fire station is coming soon
- 8 July 2021 Media Release: GRDM Council, Management and Staff bid their final farewell to Fire Chief Freddy Thaver
- 2 July 2021 Media Release: GRDM Fire Chief passes away
- 4 May 2021 Media Release: GRDM Council and Staff acknowledge Firefighters on International Firefighters Day
- 30 April 2021 Media Release: Adaptive Capacity Facility Climate Resilient Human Settlements Pilot Programme to be project managed by the GRDM
- 12 March 2021 Weather Alert: Severe Weather Alert: Veld Fires
- 22 January 2021 Weather Alert: Severe Weather Alert: Impact Based Weather Warnings for Western Cape and Namaqua
- 21 January 2021 Weather Alert: Severe Weather Alert: Impact Based Weather Warning for Western Cape and Namaqua
- 26 August 2020 Media Release: Garden Route District Municipality and stakeholders bump up efforts to extinguish peat-wetland fires
- 21 August 2020 Disinfection Activities for the past seven (7) days
- 26 May 2020 Media Release: Ecological grief sets in as the lockdown highlights the looming plight of greater humanity – the destruction of our environment
- Saluting Women Firefighters at Garden Route District Municipality
- Wildfire in Ruitersbos, Mossel Bay
- Garden Route District Municipality wins the IFFD Challenge
- Annual Fire Commemoration event to look at climate change
- Forum to commemorate the Knysna fires of 7 June 2017
- Firefighters battle blazes for a month
- CONTROLLED FIRES ARE BANNED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE
- GARDEN ROUTE WILDFIRES OF OCTOBER/NOVEMBER 2018
- NO FIREWORKS, CRACKERS OR CHINESE LANTERNS ON GUY FAWKES OR ANY OTHER DAY
- Severe Weather Alerts issued by the Cape Town Weather Office
- Fires in the Garden Route
- Garden Route DM sponsors R100 000 to 2018 Fire Management Symposium – full report
- Garden Route District Municipality sponsors R100 000 to the 2018 Fire Management Symposium
- Eden DM performs outstandingly at the SA Toughest Firefighter Alive 2018 competition
- Eden DM Firefighting Team ready to participate in the 2018 Toughest Firefighter Alive Competition
- Rampbestuur en Brandweer afdelings besoek Van Der Hoven Laerskool
- Extension of the lease contract for the provision of a fire station
- EXTENSION OF THE LEASE CONTRACT FOR THE PROVISION OF A FIRE STATION
- Eden DM Firefighters wins another challenge
- Eden DM Firefighters shown dignity and respect by Council and Management
- Denneoord emergency airstrip is safe and a major boost to regional firefighting efforts
- Eden DM Firefighters attending the 2017 SAESI Conference
- Hats off to Eden DM firefighters and volunteers
- Firemen to compete at Ethekwini Grinder Challenge
- Wildfires in the Eden District
Intergovernmental Relations
- 29 March 2023 Media Release: Garden Route District Municipality supports Western Cape Government’s Water Awareness Campaign in Kannaland
- 23 March 2023 Media Release: We Can Beat It
- 14 March 2023 Media Release: Establishment of a Community Safety Forum for the Greater Oudtshoorn
- 16 January 2023 Media Release: A Catalyst for Positive Change in Senior Management – ILGM to play a central role
- 28 November 2022 Media Release: GRDM and stakeholders launch 16 Days of Activism Campaign against Gender-Based-Violence in Thembalethu
- 11 November 2022 Public Notice: IDP/BUDGET AND PMS REPRESENTATIVE FORUM MEETING
- 21 September 2022 Media Release: Garden Route District Municipality celebrates Public Service Month through Service Delivery presentations
- 1 September 2022 Media Release: GRDM celebrates Public Service, Heritage and Tourism months – All in one
- 24 August 2022 Notice: Public Participation for the Garden Route District Coastal Management Programme – Date for comments extendeds
- 5 August 2022 Media Release: GRDM Executive Mayor welcomes newly appointed District Commissioner of SAPS to the Garden Route district
- 26 July 2022 Media Release: HealthNET Pilot Project Garden Route improves access to care
- 19 July 2022 Media Release: A healthy life for all
- 12 July 2022 Media Release: Blanco health outreach to youth
- 1 July 2022 Media Release: The South African Police Service and Garden Route District Municipality host Anti-Crime Summit
- 13 June 2022 Media Release: Garden Route Skills Mecca Focuses on Renewable Energy
- 10 June 2022 IDP Summary now available for public viewing
- 11 May 2022 Notice: Standing Committee on Transport and Public Works: Public hearings on the Western Cape Provincial Transport Infrastructure Bill
- 28 April 2022 For Public Comment: 2022-2027 Draft District IDP/Budget & PMS Process Plan and District Section 27 Framework
- 04 March 2022 Media Release: GRDM Firefighters educate Garden Routers about wildfires in Summer seasons
- 25 February 2022 Media release: Busy month for Health
- 16 February 2022 Media Release: Healthcare support for teenage pregnancies
- 8 February 2022 Media Release: Saturday surgeries making a difference
- 01 February 2022 Media Release – GRDM and stakeholders to install smoke detectors in Qolweni, Bitou
- 6 October 2021 Media Release: Get your vaccine now for a safe summer season
- 2021 09 22 IDP/Budget and PMS Representative Forum
- 8 September 2021 Media Release: Government stakeholders plant trees at the Provincial Launch of National Arbour Month in George
- 30 August 2021 Media Release: Qolweni sod-turning is the start of improved living conditions
- 23 April 2021 Media Release: GRDM continues its efforts to collaboratively address Gender-Based Violence (GBV)
- 31 March 2021 Request for Assistance: Urgent appeal for breast milk donations
- 3 December 2020 Media Release: GRDM holds its 4th IDP, Budget and Performance Management System Representative Forum
- 2 September 2020 Public Notice: 2021/2022 IDP/Budget and PMS Process Plan & Time Schedule
- 7 August 2020 Media Advisory: Minister Madikizela to visit Garden Route district (07 August to 11 August)
- 25 May 2020 GRDM holds 2-day Institutional Strategic Planning Session to discuss its strategic direction
- GRDM Mayor welcomes WC MEC of Transport and Public Works during Road Safety roadshow
- GRDM to host IDP/Budget and PMS Representative Forum meeting
- Matric First Work Experience PAY Internship Opportunities 2020/2021 – open 6 to 17 January 2020
- Annual Garden Route Environmental Forum (GREF) hosted in George
- Garden Route men attend 1st Men’s Parliament in George
- Media Release: Local Content and Production (LC&P) Workshop hosted in George
- SUPPLIER OPEN DAY – HESSEQUA
- Garden Route Inter-governmental Agriculture Workshop held to strengthen agriculture in the district
- GRDM hosts its 2nd IDP, Budget and Performance Management Representative Forum
- Executive Mayor of GRDM donates 850 potable water containers to Zoar
- Upwelling events and fish wash outs explained
- Youth on the move: Gateway to opportunities
- Garden Route DM hosts cross-district support engagement for more effective Integrated Development Planning
- Municipalities, Sector Departments and Ward Committees discuss the 2018/19 – 2021/22 IDPs
- Eden District Municipality ready for the Skills Summit
Severe Weather Alerts
- 14 December 2022 Impact Based Warning – Level 6 Severe Thunderstorms
- 14 November 2022 Impact Based Weather Warning – Veldfire Conditions – Valid 15/11/2022
- 2 November 2022 Impact Based Weather Warning – Severe Thunderstorms
- 31 October 2022 Impact Based Weather Warning – Severe Thunderstorms
- 26 September 2022 Impact Based Severe Weather Warning: Damaging Winds
- 21 September 2022 Impact Based Severe Weather Warning: Veld Fire Conditions
- 05 September 2022 Impact Based Severe Weather Warning: Damaging Winds and Veld Fire Conditions
- 2 September 2022 Impact Based Severe Weather Warning: Damaging Winds
- 1 September 2022 Impact Based Severe Weather Warning: Veld Fire Conditions
- 31 August 2022 Impact Based Severe Weather Warning: Damaging Winds
- 23 August 2022 Impact Based Severe Weather Warning: Veld Fire Conditions
- 17 August 2022 Impact Based Severe Weather Warning: Damaging Winds
- 16 August 2022 Impact Based Severe Weather Warning: Damaging Winds and Disruptive Rain
- 22 June 2022 Impact Based Weather Warning for Disruptive Rain: 23/06/2022 – 24/06/2022
- 10 June 2022 Impact Based Weather Warning: Damaging Winds 12/06/2022 – 14/06/2022
- 06 May 2022 Impact Based Weather Warnings for Western Cape and Namaqua (Yellow level 2: Disruptive Rain)
- 5 May 2022 Impact Based Warning: Veld Fire Conditions
- 11 March 2022 Impact Based Warning: Veldfire Conditions
- 08 February 2022 Impact Based Warning: Veld Fire Conditions
- 07 February 2022 Impact Based Warning: Veld Fire Conditions
- 02 February 2022 Impact Based Warning: Level 2 Disruptive Rain
- 20 January 2022 Impact Based Warning – Veld Fire Conditions
- 19 January 2022 Impact Based Warning: Veld Fire Conditions
- 17 January 2022 Impact Based Weather Warnings for Western Cape and Namaqua: Veld Fire Conditions
- 17 January 2022 Impact Based Weather Warnings for Western Cape and Namaqua: Yellow level 2: Damaging Waves
- 15 January 2022 Impact Based Warning: Severe Thunderstorms
- 13 January 2022 Weather Advisory for the Western Cape and Namaqualand Region
- 10 January 2022 Impact Based Warning: Severe Thunderstorms
- 24 November 2021 Impact Based Warning: Level 8 Damaging Winds & Level 2 Damaging Waves
- 23 November 2021 Impact Based Weather Warning – Yellow level 4: Damaging Winds
- 20 November 2021 Impact Based Warning – Disruptive Rain
- 16 November 2021 Impact Based Warning: Damaging Winds
- 20 October 2021 Impact Based Warning – Severe Thunderstorms
- 25 August 2021 Impact Based Warning: Veld Fire Conditions
- 24 August 2021 Impact Based Weather Warnings: Damaging Waves & Disruptive Snow
- 18 August 2021 Impact Based Weather Warning: Disruptive Rain
- 20 July 2021 Weather Alert: Impact Based Weather Warnings for Western Cape and Namaqua: Damaging Winds & Waves and Disruptive Rain & Snow
- 14 March 2021 Weather Alert: Severe weather alert: Impact Based Weather Warnings for Western Cape and Namaqua (14-15 March 2021)
- 31 January 2021 Weather Alert: Severe Weather Alert – Veld Fire Conditions
- 8 July 2020 Western Cape Severe Weather Alerts : Veld Fire Conditions/ High Seas/ Damaging Winds
- Cape Town Weather Office Alert – Damaging Winds
- Veldt Fire Conditions 24/02/20 08h00 – 25/02/20 18h00
- Weather conditions for this week
- Severe Weather Alert
- Severe Weather Alert
- Severe Weather Warning
Environmental Health
- 30 May 2023 Media Release: Employee Wellness Day at GRDM Head Office
- 11 April 2023 Media Release: Awareness about Clean Air a priority for Garden Route DM
- 18 February 2023 Media Release: Measles Awareness Session Held at Rosemore Crèche in George to Promote Prevention Measures
- 14 October 2022 Media Release: Health Education Committee invited to witness youth who dance with ‘change in mind’
- 6 October 2022 Media Release: Environmental Health Practitioners educate communities in celebration of World Environmental Health Day
- World Environmental Health Day Webinar on 26 September 2022
- 13 September 2022 Media Release: Environmental Health Practitioners monitor river water quality
- 27 August 2022 Media Release: The GRDM salutes a true public servant
- 26 July 2022 Media Release: Garden Route District Municipality’s role in managing of human remains
- 13 July 2022 Media Release: GRDM Environmental Health Practitioners annually ensures Knysna Oyster Festival safe
- 30 June 2022 Media Release: Food safety during load shedding
- 17 June 2022 Media Release: World Day to combat desertification and drought: Blossom’s Emergency Pipeline Project
- 1 June 2022 Media Release: Environmental Health Practitioners focus on restaurants about safe food handling
- 22 February 2022 Media Statement: Garden Route Municipalities not affected by Typhoid Fever
- 19 October 2021 Media Release: Garden Route DM prioritises the long-term health and well-being of citizens
- 17 March 2021 Media Release: District food control measures remain key to ensuring safe food consumption
- 4 February 2021 Media Release: Eradication of illegal dumping campaign in George extended to end of March 2021
- 30 November 2020 Media Release: EHPs join efforts with Hessequa Firefighters to create more COVID-19 awareness
- 18 November 2020 Media Release: Garden Route District Municipality EHPs receive pepper spray training
- 6 November 2020 Media Release: GRDM Environmental Health Practitioners, SAPS and Local Municipalities visit spaza shops
- 30 September 2020 Media Release: Environmental Health Practitioners still optimistic amidst the pandemic
- COVID-19 Health and Hygiene Awareness Sessions in the greater Oudtshoorn and Kannaland area
- Most diseases in the world are waterborne
- Update on the Ambient Air Quality Monitoring: October 2019
- Notice for Public Comment – Public Private Partnership for the Development, Design, Finance, Maintenance and Operation of a new District Regional Landfill Site
- CHEMICAL SAFETY IN SOUTH AFRICA
- Water sample results in the Knysna estuary show improvement
- The risk of using sewage effluent for irrigation purposes
- Disposal of the Dead
- Public Awareness: Vector Control
- Awareness: Rabies
- Awareness: Interventions by EHPs of the Garden Route District Municipality in prevention of the Cholera
- Municipal Health team educates learners of Hoogekraal Primary School about health & hygiene
- Informal Food Traders from Mossel Bay receive training
- World Environmental Health Day celebrated
- World Environmental Health Day Celebrations
- Sale of fake foods
- Municipal Health in George celebrated Mandela Day with clean-up operation
- Eden DM Municipal Health in Hessequa visited Kruisrivier and Goedgegund Primary schools
- Municipal Health officials in Bitou visited the New Life Creche in Qolweni
- Municipal Health Services conducts Health & Hygiene Training at Tapas & Oyster Restaurant in Knysna
Tourism
- 17 May 2023 Media Release: Garden Route and Klein Karoo Tourism Office elevates the region at the 2023 Africa Indaba Show
- 14 November 2022 Media Release: Tourism sector recovery in the spotlight
- 19 October 2022 Media Release: Garden Route domestic tourism trip attended by Journalists and Bloggers
- 1 September 2022 Media Release: GRDM celebrates Public Service, Heritage and Tourism months – All in one
- 11 July 2022 Media Release: Partnership between GRDM, Wesgro, SATSA, FEDHASA and Local Tourism Offices – Destination Marketing Organisation Launch
- 6 July 2022 Media Release: Calitzdorp Hot Springs to host a Music, Arts, and Food Gathering with a purpose
- 22 Junie 2022 Persvrystelling: Naam en kenteken van Calitzdorp Spa verander na Calitzdorp Warmbron
- 4 May 2022 Media Release: Garden Route and Klein Karoo Tourism currently marketing the region at Indaba in Durban
- 11 April 2022 Media Release: Annual World Travel Market Africa attended by local and regional tourism representatives
- 05 April 2022 Tourism Promotion: Let’s tee off
- 15 March 2022 Media Release: Growth And Development Of The Agricultural Sector In The Garden Route
- 31 January 2022 Media Release: Floods, tourists and the Garden Route environment
- 21 January 2022 Tourism Promotion – Garden Route boasts Sparkling Coastlines
- 12 January 2022 Media Release: Garden Route Coastal Resorts Perform Exceptionally Well Over the Festive Season
- 02 December 2021 Media Release: WELCOME TO THE MOST BEAUTIFUL PART OF SOUTH AFRICA, THE GARDEN ROUTE
- 3 September 2021 Media Release: Tourism for inclusive growth
- 30 June 2021 Media Release: “We are two weeks ahead of schedule” – upgrades at Calitzdorp Spa
- 25 February 2021 Media Release: How to apply for Tourism Road Signage
- 25 January 2021 Media Release: Garden Route Investment Prospectus formulated to attract domestic and foreign investment
- 8 January 2021 Media Release: Let’s continue to support our tourism industry COVID-19 and beyond
- 18 December 2020 Public Awareness: This Summer we are doing this unusual! Come & experience our diverse offerings!
- 3 December 2020 News Release: Holidaymakers welcome to the Garden Route district
- Media Release: SafeTravels.CapeTown website launched to assist tourists visiting Cape Town and the Western Cape
- 01 October 2020 Media Release: International travel restrictions: A different approach needed to save tourism
- 27 September 2020: Garden Route & Klein Karoo celebrates World Tourism Day
- 23 September 2020 Media Release: Executive Mayor shares Tourism highlights and concerns with National Parliament Committee
- 15 September 2020 Media Alert: Executive Mayor to present the Garden Route’s ‘COVID-19 Policy Response to the Tourism Sector’ to National Parliament
- Media Release: Garden Route students graduate after completing Cater Care Training Programme
- Students overfilled with joy after completing 3-month Cater Care Course
- Garden Route & Klein Karoo attends Indaba 2019
- GR&KK Tourism and ACSA hosting an Easter Welcoming Campaign
- Garden Route and Klein Karoo Regional Tourism office is currently exhibiting at the World Travel Market Africa
- Final Tourism Strategy Workshop currently underway
- Visitors applaud Garden Route DM resorts after their 2018/2019 holiday stay
- 2018 Lights Festival – Mascots Galore for Children
- Tourists welcome in George, Wilderness and Uniondale
- We are still open for business – travelers encouraged to visit our region
- 02 November 2018 No hiking or feeding of Wildlife allowed after fires in the Garden Route
- Urgent Notification: Visitors travelling to the Garden Route and Klein Karoo region
- Eden DM a helping hand in hospitality and tourism training
Environmental Management
- 24 April 2023 Media Release: Preparing for a changing climate indicates that all is not bad news for the Southern Cape
- 21 April 2023 Cape EAPrac: Public Participation Process
- 13 December 2022 Media Release: Resource management, land restoration and legislation take centre stage in the Garden Route
- 05 October 2022 Media Release: Garden Route District Municipality applies for an Alien Vegetation Control Programme Grant
- 13 September 2022 Media Release: Environmental Health Practitioners monitor river water quality
- 24 August 2022 Notice: Public Participation for the Garden Route District Coastal Management Programme – Date for comments extendeds
- 11 August 2022 Public Notice: Comment – Public Participation for the Garden Route Coastal Management Programme – Closing 20 August 2022
- 20 June 2022 Media Release: Environmental management and climate change under the spotlight at Garden Route Indaba
- 17 June 2022 Media Release: World Day to combat desertification and drought: Blossom’s Emergency Pipeline Project
- 14 June 2022 Public Notice: Notice of Public Participation for the Garden Route District Coastal Management Programme
- 1 June 2022 Media Release: Environmental Health Practitioners focus on restaurants about safe food handling
- 15 March 2022 Media Release: Growth And Development Of The Agricultural Sector In The Garden Route
- 05 February 2022 Media Release: Algae in Blind River, Dana Bay
- 02 February 2022 Media Release: Garden Route District Municipality Once Again Celebrating World Wetlands Day on 02 February
- 31 January 2022 Media Release: Floods, tourists and the Garden Route environment
- 27 October 2021 Media Release: First case of Avian Influenza reported in the Garden Route
- 27 October 2021 Media Release: We are controlling alien invasive species on all our properties
- 27 September 2021 News Release: Garden Route District Municipality’s Environmental Health Practitioners fulfill significant role in Water Quality Monitoring
- 8 September 2021 Media Release: Government stakeholders plant trees at the Provincial Launch of National Arbour Month in George
- 4 June 2021 Media Release: Garden Route Climate Change Indaba to coincide with the United Nations World Oceans Day
- 5 May 2021 Media Release: Safeguarding Wetlands and Preserving Nature’s Ability to Filter and Supply Clean Water
- 25 January 2021 Media Release: Climate Change likely to blindside RSA on the back of Covid-19
- 17 November 2020 Media Release: Southern Cape community to reflect on environmental management during December 2020 event
- 13 November 2020 Media Release: Garden Routers join efforts to remove nurdles from Mossel Bay and Hessequa coastline
- 29 September 2020 Media Release: Resource management is key to Eastern Cape survival
- 26 August 2020 Media Release: Garden Route District Municipality and stakeholders bump up efforts to extinguish peat-wetland fires
- 5 June 2020 MEDIA RELEASE/ARTICLE: Recovery of indigenous vegetation following the 2017 wildfire disaster remarkable, but regrowth of invasive alien plants on a large scale a reason for concern
- 26 May 2020 Media Release: Ecological grief sets in as the lockdown highlights the looming plight of greater humanity – the destruction of our environment
- Annual Garden Route Environmental Forum (GREF) hosted in George
- Garden Route Environmental Forum launches extensive landowner assistance programme
- Garden Route District Municipality’s Nina Viljoen now “Dr Nina Viljoen”
- 18 June 2019 The Garden Route Annual Fire Commemoration Event, Climate Change & Adaptation Indaba successfully hosted in Wilderness
- CHEMICAL SAFETY IN SOUTH AFRICA
- Annual Fire Commemoration event to look at climate change
- Forum to commemorate the Knysna fires of 7 June 2017
- Water sample results in the Knysna estuary show improvement
- Upwelling events and fish wash outs explained
- Eden DM Mayor Signs Durban Commitment
- Plea to businesses and industry within the Eden district to adapt operations and behaviour
- Eden DM receives recognition for its contribution to the Wetlands South Africa project
Skills Development
- 24 May 2023 Training Opportunities: 120 Patrol Officer Learning Opportunities Across the Garden Route
- 16 May 2023 Opportunities: Construction Management Systems Training for Grades 5-8 Women-owned Businesses
- 10 May 2023 Media Release: GRDM adopts its Workplace Skills Plan
- 24 March 2023 Media Release: GRDM Municipal Manager and officials welcome interns to the organisation
- 30 September 2022 Media Release: Garden Route Skills Mecca Technicians warmly welcomed by Municipal Manager
- 19 August 2022 Media Release: GRDM and LGSETA New Venture Creation Learnership classes conclude
- 11 August 2022 Media Release: GRDM Fire Fighting Training accreditation – check marked
- 28 June 2022 Media Release: Expanded Public Works Programme (EPWP) and SASSETA visit GRDM
- 13 June 2022 Media Release: Garden Route Skills Mecca Focuses on Renewable Energy
- 13 June 2022 Opportunities For Unemployed Youth in the Western Cape
- 15 March 2022 GRDM Media Release: Disaster Management officials presented their 1st First Aid Level 3 Training for the year
- 15 March 2022 Media Release: NYDA Focusses on Youth Development In The Garden Route
- 15 March 2022 Media Release: Growth And Development Of The Agricultural Sector In The Garden Route
- Save The Date: Garden Route Skills Mecca Forum to Be Held on 25 February
- 15 January 2022 Impact Based Warning: Severe Thunderstorms
- 25 November 2021 Media Release: Quarterly Skills Mecca Forum draws experts from LGSETA
- 24 November 2021 Impact Based Warning: Level 8 Damaging Winds & Level 2 Damaging Waves
- 28 October 2021 Media Release: Another 22 students to reap fruits from Garden Route DM Cater Care Programme
- 5 October 2021 Save the Date – Invitation: Garden Route Skills Mecca Webinar
- 1 October 2021 Financial Assistance towards Further Studies 2022
- 8 September 2021 Media Release: Paving the way forward: Garden Route Skills Mecca collaborates with CATHSSETA on open platform
- 8 SEPTEMBER 2021 Save the date: CATHSSETA STAKEHOLDER ENGAGEMENT
- 15 June 2021 Call to Register: EPWP Contractor Development Programme – Apply today!
- 15 June 2021 Media Release: Skills Mecca to become central to job and skills alignment in the Garden Route
- 14 May 2021 Media Release: GRDM Executive Mayor encourages participants of Mayoral Programmes during Certificate Ceremony
- 2 November 2020 Media Release: Garden Route District Municipality welcomes 30 interns for workplace experience
- 6 October 2020 Financial Assistance towards Further Studies – 2021
- 16 September 2020 Notice: Bricklaying Apprenticeship Programme – Opportunities for Qualified Unemployed Youth
- 4 August 2020 Media Release: Bricklaying Apprenticeship continues to benefit youth of the Garden Route
- Garden Route Skills Summit cancelled due to growing concerns over COVID-19 VIRUS
- Call for Businesses to Register for attending the upcoming Garden Route Skills Summit
- GRDM and DHET meet to discuss upcoming Garden Route Skills Summit
- Third Annual Skills Summit will take place on 19 and 20 March 2020 in Knysna
- Media Release: Garden Route students graduate after completing Cater Care Training Programme
- Matric First Work Experience PAY Internship Opportunities 2020/2021 – open 6 to 17 January 2020
- Financial Assistance towards Tertiary Studies – 2020
- Youth on the move: Gateway to opportunities
- Garden Route to move away from red-tape and move towards a red carpet for skills development
Local Economic Development
- 17 May 2023 Media Release: Garden Route and Klein Karoo Tourism Office elevates the region at the 2023 Africa Indaba Show
- 22 March 2023 Media release: Garden Route District hosts its 2nd Safer Schools Conference
- 01 March 2023 Media Release: Nishendra Moodley begins leadership role at the EDP
- 14 Febuary 2023 Media Release: Garden Route Growth and Development Strategy Implementation Plan now in place
- 6 July 2022 Media Release: Calitzdorp Hot Springs to host a Music, Arts, and Food Gathering with a purpose
- 28 June 2022 Media Release: Expanded Public Works Programme (EPWP) and SASSETA visit GRDM
- 13 June 2022 Media Release: Garden Route Skills Mecca Focuses on Renewable Energy
- 13 June 2022 Opportunities For Unemployed Youth in the Western Cape
- 15 March 2022 Media Release: NYDA Focusses on Youth Development In The Garden Route
- 15 March 2022 Media Release: Growth And Development Of The Agricultural Sector In The Garden Route
- 14 March 2022 Media Release: Garden Route Skills Mecca Forum Focuses On Youth Development And Agriculture
- 17 February 2022 Media Release: Wesgro enters into a contract with Garden Route District Municipality to drive economic growth
- Save The Date: Garden Route Skills Mecca Forum to Be Held on 25 February
- 12 January 2022 Media Release: Garden Route Coastal Resorts Perform Exceptionally Well Over the Festive Season
- 25 November 2021 Media Release: Quarterly Skills Mecca Forum draws experts from LGSETA
- 28 October 2021 Media Release: Another 22 students to reap fruits from Garden Route DM Cater Care Programme
- 6 September 2021 Media Release: Garden Route DM commits an additional R 2.5 million towards export hub
- 30 August 2021 SMME Support and Development Programme – Call for Business Proposals
- 30 August 2021 Notification: Cater Care (Food Handler) Training Programme
- 12 June 2021 Media Release: The world is your oyster, and nothing can keep you back!
- 3 May 2021 Media Release: Garden Route DM: Nineteen (19) youth being up-skilled for Food Handling
- 19 April 2021 Weather Alert: Weather forecast
- 30 March 2021 Media Release: 2021–2040 Garden Route Growth and Development Strategy approved by Council
- 9 March 2021 Media Release: Thembalethu Bridge upgrade will boost Southern Cape economy
- 22 February 2021 Media Release: PPE donated to Garden Route municipalities by SALGA-UN Development Programme
- 16 February 2021 Save the Date: WebiPanel: Panel discussion on “The Role of Associations and Chambers in post-COVID-19 economic recovery – a local and international perspective
- 1 February 2021 Media Release: Invest in our region – Message by Mayor Booysen and a background of the Garden Route
- 3 December 2020 News Release: Holidaymakers welcome to the Garden Route district
- 22 October 2020 SMME Support & Development Programme – Call for business proposals
- 01 October 2020 Media Release: International travel restrictions: A different approach needed to save tourism
- 2 September 2020 Media Release: Innovative Re-Imagine Garden Route WebiShop video and presentations now accessible online
- 16 April 2020 Call for applications: COVID-19 Agricultural disaster support fund for smallholder and communal farmers
- Garden Route Business Impact and Continuity Survey March 2020
- Media Release: Garden Route students graduate after completing Cater Care Training Programme
- Durban FilmMart attended by Garden Routers
- Students overfilled with joy after completing 3-month Cater Care Course
Roads Services
- 15 May 2023 Update two (2): Gwaing Road (DR1618) Rehabilitation on schedule
- 13 February 2023 Media Release: GRDM rolling out R67 million Gwaing Road construction project
- 26 July 2022 Media Release: Western Cape Government hands over Construction Graders worth R9.4 million to GRDM
- 1 July 2022 Public Notice: Opening of Saasveld Road
- 14 June 2022 Media Release: Update 3 – Status of Saasveld Road (George) Construction (MR355)
- 11 May 2022 Media Release: Update 2: Status of Saasveld Road (George) Construction
- 05 May 2022 Notice: Applications for Fencing Subsidies to assist Landowners are now open
- 12 April 2022 Media Release: Saasveld road construction is nearing completion
- 25 March 2022 GRDM and Hessequa Executive Mayors with delegation praise Roads team with progress of Roads Project in Jongensfontein
- 15 March 2022 Media Release: Growth And Development Of The Agricultural Sector In The Garden Route
- 01 December 2021 Media Release: Garden Route officials mourn the loss of another dear colleague
- 27 November 2021 Media statement: Madiba Drive remains closed
- 16 September 2021 Memorial Services of Luleka Yoli
- 16 September 2021 Media Release: Roads employees bid farewell to a dedicated colleague – Luleka Yoli passes away
- 21 May 2021 Media Release: Rural Roads Asset Management Systems Grant Annual Meeting
- 21 May 2021 Media Release: Fencing subsidies available – call for applications
- 9 April 2021 Media Release: Sudden passing of another beloved Roads Services colleague and friend mourned
- 15 March 2021 Media Release: 90 People benefit from a Garden Route District Municipality Road Construction Leadernship
- 9 February 2021 Media Release: GRDM Grader Operator tragically passes away in motor vehicle accident
- 2 February 2021 Media Release: “I am the first one” – GRDM helped Thembisa to obtain her Code 14 licence
- 25 January 2021 Media Release: Recent storms in the Klein Karoo caused severe damage to rural roads
- 11 January 2021 Media Release: Garden Route District Municipality loses Roads employee
- 28 August 2020 Media Release: GRDM Roads official wins battle against COVID-19 after being bedridden in Hospital
- 17 July 2020 Notification: Essential re-gravel and drainage repair work along the Southern section of the Swartberg Pass
- 23 June 2020 Media Release: Fencing subsidies available – call for applications
- Road Closure: Swartberg Pass
- Knysna Road roadworks and road closure – 20 February 2020
- Notification of Essential Maintenance work planned for Swartberg Pass
- GRDM Roads & Transport Planning – A leader in new machinery and women empowerment
- Garden Route District Municipality Roads Department makes history
- Fencing Subsidies 2019 / 2020
- Media Release: Avian Deaths reported along Divisional Road 1614 caused by Avian Botulism
- Garden Route DM Roads Employees excel again
- Western Cape Department of Transport hands over R5.7 million new bulldozer to the Garden Route DM Roads Department
- Western Cape Department of Transport hands over R5.7 million new bulldozer to the Garden Route DM Roads Department
media_statements
- 19 May 2023 Media Release: Challenges and Solutions: Minister Kubayi Engages with Local Officials and Communities
- 11 April 2023 Media Release: Awareness about Clean Air a priority for Garden Route DM
- 10 March 2023 Media Release: Load shedding relief: GRDM receives R1.6 million for generators from the WC Government
- 13 February 2023 Media Release: GRDM rolling out R67 million Gwaing Road construction project
- 8 February 2023 Media Release: Construction of the new Garden Route District Municipality Fire Station underway
- 31 January 2023 Media Release: A positive turnout for GRDM Coastal Resorts over the holiday season
- 12 December 2022 Media Release: Media Release: Cater Care students ready to gain practical experience
- 9 December 2022 Media Release: GRDM Integrated Human Settlements Strategic Plan to be enhanced
- 9 December 2022 Media Release: GRDM is gearing up for the SUMMER SEASON!
- 30 November 2022 Media Statement 1: Clean-up of Garden Route beaches underway
- 18 November 2022 Media Relese: Garden Route District Municipality supports Thembalethu Neighbourhood Watch
- 4 November 2022 Media Release: State-of-the-Art Regional Fire Station expected by June 2023
- 4 November 2022 Media Release: Calitzdorp Natural Hot Springs Resort
- 24 October 2022 Media Statement: Garden Route District Municipality’s role in the Rooikat Recycling Project
- 20 October 2022 Media Release: Take action during Breast Cancer Awareness month
- 19 October 2022 Media Release: Garden Route domestic tourism trip attended by Journalists and Bloggers
- 12 September 2022 Media Release: GRDM faced with another tragic loss – Adri Miles passes away
- 31 August 2022 Media Release: Social Housing Event – Own Haven Housing Association Introduced to Stakeholders
- 27 August 2022 Media Release: LGSETA DISCRETIONARY GRANT 2022/23 ALLOCATIONS FOR GARDEN ROUTE DISTRICT MUNICIPALITY
- 25 August 2022 Media Release: 35 Learners from Garden Route district to gain practical experience at local municipalities
- 26 July 2022 Media Release: HealthNET Pilot Project Garden Route improves access to care
- 26 July 2022 Media Release: Garden Route District Municipality’s role in managing of human remains
- 13 July 2022 Media Release: GRDM Environmental Health Practitioners annually ensures Knysna Oyster Festival safe
- 12 July 2022 Media Release: Blanco health outreach to youth
- 01 July 2022 Media Release: Garden Route District Municipality launches electronic job application platform
- 12 April 2022 Media Release: Several Garden Route DM APAC members complete their terms
- 29 March 2022 Media release: Wowee for WoW! Champions
- 15 March 2022 Media Release: NYDA Focusses on Youth Development In The Garden Route
- Save The Date: Garden Route Skills Mecca Forum to Be Held on 25 February
- 01 February 2022 Media Release: EXPANSION OF MENTAL HEALTH PROGRAMME
- 27 October 2021 Media Release: We are controlling alien invasive species on all our properties
- 1 July 2021 Media Release: Western Cape Human Settlements Budget will empower residents in the Garden Route
- 27 June 2021 Media Release: Western Cape Human Settlements Budget heads to Garden Route
- 4 June 2021 Media Release: Garden Route Climate Change Indaba to coincide with the United Nations World Oceans Day
- 8 October 2020 Media Statement: Municipal communicators make shocking discoveries at illegal dump site
IDP
- 31 March 2023 Public Notice: Draft Amended 2022-2027 IDP & Draft 2023/2024 MTREF and Multi-Year Budget – Open for Comment
- 11 November 2022 Public Notice: IDP/BUDGET AND PMS REPRESENTATIVE FORUM MEETING
- Public Notice: Revised 2022-2027 IDP Process Plan including IDP/Budget and PMS Time Schedule for 2023/24 IDP Review & 2021/2022 Draft Unaudited Annual Report
- 13 June 2022 Media Release: Garden Route Skills Mecca Focuses on Renewable Energy
- 10 June 2022 IDP Summary now available for public viewing
- 8 June 2022 Public Notice: 2022-2027 District IDP/Budget and PMS Process Plan and District Section 27 Framework
- 28 May 2022 Public Notice: Adoption of the 2022-2027 Integrated Development Plan (IDP), 2022/2023 Medium Term Revenue and Expenditure Framework and Multi-Year Budget
- 28 April 2022 For Public Comment: 2022-2027 Draft District IDP/Budget & PMS Process Plan and District Section 27 Framework
- 19 April 2022 Public Notice: IDP/BUDGET AND PMS REPRESENTATIVE FORUM MEETING
- 31 March 2022 For Comment: Draft 2022-2027 Integrated Development Plan (IDP), Draft 2022/2023 Medium Term Revenue and Expenditure Framework and Draft Multi-Year Budget
- 15 March 2022 Media Release: NYDA Focusses on Youth Development In The Garden Route
- 15 March 2022 Media Release: Growth And Development Of The Agricultural Sector In The Garden Route
- 14 March 2022 Media Release: Garden Route Skills Mecca Forum Focuses On Youth Development And Agriculture
- Save The Date: Garden Route Skills Mecca Forum to Be Held on 25 February
- 10 December 2021 Public Notice: Final Reviewed 2021/2022 Integrated Development Plan
- 6 September 2021 Media Release: District Council approves its first Joint-District Metro Approach Plan – what’s next?
- 2021 08 25 Notice: 2022/2023 IDP/Budget and PMS Time Schedule & 2020/2021 Draft Unaudited Annual Report
- 2 June 2021 Public Notice: Final Review of the 2021/2022 Integrated Development Plan and 2021/2022 – 2023/2024 Multi-Year Budget
- 27 May 2021 Public Notice: Final Review of 2021/2022 Integrated Development Plan (IDP) and 2021/2022 – 2023/2024 Multi-Year Budget
- 7 April 2021 Public Notice: Draft Reviewed 2021/2022 IDP, Draft 2021/2022 Medium Term Revenue and Expenditure Framework and Multi-Year Budget
- 3 December 2020 Media Release: GRDM holds its 4th IDP, Budget and Performance Management System Representative Forum
- 2 September 2020 Public Notice: 2021/2022 IDP/Budget and PMS Process Plan & Time Schedule
- 29 May 2020 Public Notice: Final Review of 2020/2021 Integrated Development Plan (IDP) and 2020/2021 – 2022/2023 Multi – Year Budget
- 2020/2021 IDP GRDM Final Review
- DRAFT Reviewed 2020/2021 Integrated Development Plan (IDP), the 2020/2021 Medium Term Revenue and Expenditure Framework & Multi-Year Budget
- GRDM to host IDP/Budget and PMS Representative Forum meeting
- GRDM hosts its 2nd IDP, Budget and Performance Management Representative Forum
- Garden Route District Municipality Representative Forum currently underway in George
- An Institutional Strategic Planning Session is underway (12 and 13 March 2019)
- Save the Date: IDP / Budget and PMS Representative Forum Meeting
- Garden Route DM hosts cross-district support engagement for more effective Integrated Development Planning
- Municipalities, Sector Departments and Ward Committees discuss the 2018/19 – 2021/22 IDPs
- IDP Managers help Mossel Bay children
Waste Management
- 17 March 2023 Media Release: Waste Management Licence for construction of the GRDM Regional Waste Management Facility extended with 10 years
- 22 June 2022 Media Release: First phase of the Regional Waste Management Facility scheduled to conclude by 30 June 2023
- 18 August 2021 Media Release: Garden Route DM hosts successful Waste and Biomass Beneficiation Conference
- 10 August 2021 Media Alert: Garden Route Waste and Biomass Beneficiation Conference to take place on 12 August 2021 from 09:00 till 17:00
- 2 July 2021 Media Release: GRDM Home Composting Project participants commence with capturing of organic material
- 4 February 2021 Media Release: Eradication of illegal dumping campaign in George extended to end of March 2021
- 24 November 2020 Media Release: Municipalities place skips in Thembalethu and Pacaltsdorp
- 12 November 2020 Media Release: Awareness about the dangers of illegal dumping continues
- 17 November 2020 Media Release: Garden Route DM collaborates with Oudtshoorn Municipality on a home composting model
- 20 October 2020 Invitation to participate in the Household Composting Pilot Project: Zoar (Kannaland Municipality)
- 19 October 2020 Media Release: Reduce, reuse and replant – home composting project rolled out in Bitou
- 16 October 2020 Media Statement: Regional Landfill Facility still on the cards, but delayed
- 17 July 2020 Media Release: Illegal dumping remains a problem in the Garden Route, all over South Africa and many parts of the world
- 8 July 2020 Alert: Garden Route Home Composting Project – 2 days left to apply!
- 22 June 2020 Invitation to participate in the Household Composting Pilot Project: Bitou and Oudtshoorn Municipalities
- 12 June 2020 Garden Route DM Waste Recycling and Minimisation Survey Participation
- 30 April 2020 Media Release: Eco-friendly ways of repurposing kitchen scraps and garden waste
- Garden Route Regional Waste Management Facility
- The construction of the Garden Route Regional Waste Management Facility has commenced!
- Garden Route’s Regional Waste Facility a ground-breaking Public-Private Partnership
- FOR PUBLIC COMMENT – Final Draft Garden Route DM 3rd Generation Integrated Waste Management Plan 2020-2024 – Closing 8 November 2019
- Notice for Public Comment – Public Private Partnership for the Development, Design, Finance, Maintenance and Operation of a new District Regional Landfill Site
- GRDM and Mossel Bay Municipalities launch Schools Composting Programme in Mossel Bay
- Food scraps have a purpose
- Garden Route schools guided to a Greener future
- Update on Garden Route DM’s 205-hectare property development in Mossel Bay
- Sale of fake foods
- Eden DM launches a Pilot Household Composting Project
- Swedish Delegation explores potential investment opportunities in the Eden district
- Eden DM Recycling Mascot
- Waste Management is everybody’s business
Economic Development
- 17 May 2023 Media Release: Garden Route and Klein Karoo Tourism Office elevates the region at the 2023 Africa Indaba Show
- 16 May 2023 Opportunities: Construction Management Systems Training for Grades 5-8 Women-owned Businesses
- 04 April 2023 Media Release: GRDM once again supports SMMEs in the district through their 2022/2023 budget
- 14 Febuary 2023 Media Release: Garden Route Growth and Development Strategy Implementation Plan now in place
- 30 November 2022 Media Release: GRDM De Hoek Mountain Resort transitioning to a green accommodation facility
- 19 October 2022 Media Release: Garden Route domestic tourism trip attended by Journalists and Bloggers
- 3 August 2022 Media Release: Informal Traders Conference for informal businesses hosted in the Garden Route
- 11 July 2022 Media Release: Partnership between GRDM, Wesgro, SATSA, FEDHASA and Local Tourism Offices – Destination Marketing Organisation Launch
- 6 July 2022 Media Release: Calitzdorp Hot Springs to host a Music, Arts, and Food Gathering with a purpose
- 13 June 2022 Media Release: Garden Route Skills Mecca Focuses on Renewable Energy
- 13 June 2022 Opportunities For Unemployed Youth in the Western Cape
- 15 March 2022 Media Release: NYDA Focusses on Youth Development In The Garden Route
- 15 March 2022 Media Release: Growth And Development Of The Agricultural Sector In The Garden Route
- 14 March 2022 Media Release: Garden Route Skills Mecca Forum Focuses On Youth Development And Agriculture
- 9 March 2022 Media Release: Garden Route Business Advisory Forum Established
- 4 March 2022 Media Release: Local produced products and services to be showcased by Small Businesses at a pop-up market at the Garden Route Mall
- Save The Date: Garden Route Skills Mecca Forum to Be Held on 25 February
- 12 January 2022 Media Release: Garden Route Coastal Resorts Perform Exceptionally Well Over the Festive Season
- 12 June 2021 Media Release: The world is your oyster, and nothing can keep you back!
- 25 January 2021 Media Release: Garden Route Investment Prospectus formulated to attract domestic and foreign investment
- 19 October 2020 Media Release: GRDM SMME Development Programme benefits SMMEs of the Garden Route
- 23 September 2020 Media Release: Executive Mayor shares Tourism highlights and concerns with National Parliament Committee
- 14 September 2020 Media Release: Award-winning Cinematographer WIlliam Collinson’s quirky new film ‘Mr Johnson’ starts its festival journey at GRIFF
- Media Release: Implementing the Hotspot Strategy to ensure safer workplaces
- Garden Route Business Impact and Continuity Survey March 2020
- Public Notice: Proposed Long-Term Lease of a Portion of Erf 419 Mossel Bay to Ikusasa Processing Engineer
- Public Notice: Proposed Long-Term lease of a Portion of Farm 419 Mossel Bay Landfill Site to Moumakoe Energy (Pty) Ltd
- Garden Route Inter-governmental Agriculture Workshop held to strengthen agriculture in the district
- MOU between Garden Route DM and George Airport to boost the economy
- Garden Route District Municipality attracts investment of R1-billion
- GRDM Leadership’s visit to Indonesia
Air Quality
- 11 April 2023 Media Release: Awareness about Clean Air a priority for Garden Route DM
- 17 March 2023 Media Release: Oudtshoorn Air Quality rated the best in Africa
- 24 October 2022 Media Statement: Garden Route District Municipality’s role in the Rooikat Recycling Project
- 19 May 2022 Media Release: Garden Route District Air Quality Awareness Campaigns have reached more than 60 000 people so far
- 10 May 2022 Frequently Asked Questions: Rooikat Recycling Project, Great Brak River
- 10 May 2022 Media Release: Garden Route Air Quality complies 100% with NAEIS
- 05 February 2022 Media Release: Algae in Blind River, Dana Bay
- 14 January 2022 Media Release: Garden Route Air Quality remains tops
- 13 August 2021 Public Notice: Noise Disturbance Advisory, Mossel Bay (13-15 August 2021)
- 10 June 2021 Media Release: Garden Route Clean Fires Campaign reach expands year-on-year
- 10 June 2021 Media Release: Garden Route District Municipality establishes a dispersion modelling function
- 26 March 2021 Media Release: Garden Route at the top of its game in controlling air quality
- 10 February 2021 Media Statement: Oil smell and possible oil pollution in Dana Bay
- 25 January 2021 Media Release: Ambient Air Quality Monitoring conducted in Louis Fourie Road Mossel Bay
- 8 October 2020 Media Statement: Odour complaints in Mossel Bay receiving attention
- 28 August 2020 Media Release: Third Generation Western Cape Air Quality Management Plan Review
- 22 July 2020 Media Release: New Mobile Air Quality Sensor for the Garden Route
- 5 May 2020 Media Release: Effects of the National Lockdown on Air Quality within the Garden Route District
- Garden Route DM lends a helping hand to Industry
- Update on the Ambient Air Quality Monitoring: October 2019
- District learners educate in Air Quality
- No Arsenic found at Geelhoutvlei Timbers
- Air Quality officials contribute to workshop held at NMU
- Knysna – Smoke emissions caused by biomass burning at saw mill
- Eden District Municipal Health Office in Mossel Bay donated dog food to the Mossel Bay SPCA
- Vehicle Emission Testing
- Eden District Air Quality: Government Institutions prioritise towards healthier communities
- Eden DM’s Air Quality Unit shares best practice during fact finding mission
- Another Greenest District Municipality award the District
- Eden DM procures a Mobile Air Monitoring Station
Skills Mecca
- 24 May 2023 Training Opportunities: 120 Patrol Officer Learning Opportunities Across the Garden Route
- 11 April 2023 Media Release: HWSETA Provincial Manager visits Garden Route DM
- 24 March 2023 Media Release: GRDM Municipal Manager and officials welcome interns to the organisation
- 01 March 2023 Media Release: The Connected Economy – A Priority Focus Area for the Garden Route Skills Mecca
- Join our Garden Route Skills Mecca Quarterly Stakeholder Engagement on 18 November 2022
- 30 September 2022 Media Release: Garden Route Skills Mecca Technicians warmly welcomed by Municipal Manager
- 25 August 2022 Media Release: 35 Learners from Garden Route district to gain practical experience at local municipalities
- 19 August 2022 Media Release: GRDM and LGSETA New Venture Creation Learnership classes conclude
- Join our Garden Route Skills Mecca Quarterly Stakeholder Engagement on 25 August 2022
- 11 August 2022 Media Release: GRDM Fire Fighting Training accreditation – check marked
- 28 June 2022 Media Release: Expanded Public Works Programme (EPWP) and SASSETA visit GRDM
- 13 June 2022 Media Release: Garden Route Skills Mecca Focuses on Renewable Energy
- 13 June 2022 Opportunities For Unemployed Youth in the Western Cape
- 15 March 2022 Media Release: NYDA Focusses on Youth Development In The Garden Route
- 15 March 2022 Media Release: Growth And Development Of The Agricultural Sector In The Garden Route
- 14 March 2022 Media Release: Garden Route Skills Mecca Forum Focuses On Youth Development And Agriculture
- Save The Date: Garden Route Skills Mecca Forum to Be Held on 25 February
- 13 December 2022 Media Release: GRDM embraces Occupational Based Learning
- 25 November 2021 Media Release: Quarterly Skills Mecca Forum draws experts from LGSETA
- 16 November 2021 You are invited to our next Garden Route Skills Mecca Forum
- 12 October 2021 Garden Route Skills Mecca hosts Capacity Building Session for Skills Development Stakeholders
- 5 October 2021 Save the Date – Invitation: Garden Route Skills Mecca Webinar
- 1 October 2021 Financial Assistance towards Further Studies 2022
- 8 September 2021 Media Release: Paving the way forward: Garden Route Skills Mecca collaborates with CATHSSETA on open platform
- 8 SEPTEMBER 2021 Save the date: CATHSSETA STAKEHOLDER ENGAGEMENT
- 15 June 2021 Call to Register: EPWP Contractor Development Programme – Apply today!
- 15 June 2021 Media Release: Skills Mecca to become central to job and skills alignment in the Garden Route
Performance Management
- 11 November 2022 Public Notice: IDP/BUDGET AND PMS REPRESENTATIVE FORUM MEETING
- Public Notice: Revised 2022-2027 IDP Process Plan including IDP/Budget and PMS Time Schedule for 2023/24 IDP Review & 2021/2022 Draft Unaudited Annual Report
- Public Notice: Performance Agreements 2022/23 approved
- 23 June 2022 Public Notice: GRDM 2022/2023 Top Layer Service Delivery Budget Implementation Plan (SDBIP) approved
- 10 June 2022 Public Notice: Draft Service Delivery and Budget Implementation Plan for the 2022/2023 Financial year is open for public comment
- 8 June 2022 Public Notice: 2022-2027 District IDP/Budget and PMS Process Plan and District Section 27 Framework
- 28 April 2022 For Public Comment: 2022-2027 Draft District IDP/Budget & PMS Process Plan and District Section 27 Framework
- 31 January 2022 Revised Service Delivery and Budget Implementation Plan (SDBIP) – 2nd Submission
- 2021 08 25 Notice: 2022/2023 IDP/Budget and PMS Time Schedule & 2020/2021 Draft Unaudited Annual Report
- 05 August 2021 Performance Agreements 2021/22 approved
- 23 June 2021 Public Notice: GRDM 2021/2022 Top Layer Service Delivery Budget Implementation Plan (SDBIP) approved
- 8 June 2021 Public Notice: GRDM Top Layer Service Delivery & Budget Implementation Plan (SDBIP) open for public perusal and comment
- 8 April 2021 Public Notice: Draft Service Delivery and Budget Implementation Plan for the 2021/2022 Financial Year is accessible
- 29 March 2021 Public Notice: Draft Performance Agreements for 2021/2022 Financial Year are accessible to the public
- 11 March 2021 Public Notice: Revised SDBIP for 2020/2021 approved by Council
- 3 December 2020 Media Release: GRDM holds its 4th IDP, Budget and Performance Management System Representative Forum
- 2 July 2020 Notice: Revised 2019/2020 Service Delivery Budget Implementation Plan (SDBIP) – 2nd submission
- 10 June 2020 FOR PUBLIC COMMENT – Service Delivery and Budget Implementation Plan 2020/2021
- 7 May 2020 GRDM Council approved Final Revised SDBIP for 2019/2020 financial year
- Public Notice: Draft Service Delivery and Budget Implementation Plan for the 2019/2020 Financial year is open for public comment
- Public Notice: Draft Performance Agreements for 2019/2020 Financial Year accessible
- GRDM hosts its 2nd IDP, Budget and Performance Management Representative Forum
- An Institutional Strategic Planning Session is underway (12 and 13 March 2019)
- Save the Date: IDP / Budget and PMS Representative Forum Meeting
- Final Service Delivery and Budget Implementation Plan 2018/2019
- Municipalities, Sector Departments and Ward Committees discuss the 2018/19 – 2021/22 IDPs
Human Resources
- 12 May 2023 Media Release: GRDM empowers employees on Labour related matters that could be experienced in the workplace
- 10 May 2023 Media Release: GRDM adopts its Workplace Skills Plan
- 24 March 2023 Media Release: GRDM Municipal Manager and officials welcome interns to the organisation
- 2 December 2022 Media Release: LGSETA conducts another due diligence visit at GRDM
- 19 October 2022 Media Release: Great attendance by staff at second GRDM Employee Wellness Day for the year
- 18 October 2022 Financial Assistance towards Further Studies 2023
- 30 September 2022 Media Release: Garden Route Skills Mecca Technicians warmly welcomed by Municipal Manager
- 2 September 2022 Media Release: The Garden Route District Municipality launches its electronic job application system
- 25 August 2022 Media Release: 35 Learners from Garden Route district to gain practical experience at local municipalities
- 19 August 2022 Media Release: GRDM and LGSETA New Venture Creation Learnership classes conclude
- 01 July 2022 Media Release: Garden Route District Municipality launches electronic job application platform
- 29 June 2022 Media Release: GRDM acknowledges Health and Safety Representatives for their dedicated and loyal service
- 3 June 2022 Media Release: Officials from Garden Route District Municipality celebrate Employee Wellness Day – 30 employees donated blood!
- 16 May 2022 FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE TOWARDS FURTHER STUDIES 2022
- 5 October 2021 Save the Date – Invitation: Garden Route Skills Mecca Webinar
- 16 September 2021 Media Release: Roads employees bid farewell to a dedicated colleague – Luleka Yoli passes away
- 8 July 2021 Media Release: GRDM Council, Management and Staff bid their final farewell to Fire Chief Freddy Thaver
- 2 July 2021 Media Release: GRDM Fire Chief passes away
- 15 June 2021 Media Release: Skills Mecca to become central to job and skills alignment in the Garden Route
- 9 February 2021 Media Release: GRDM Grader Operator tragically passes away in motor vehicle accident
- 11 January 2021 Media Release: Garden Route District Municipality loses Roads employee
- 2 November 2020 Media Release: Garden Route District Municipality welcomes 30 interns for workplace experience
- 6 October 2020 Financial Assistance towards Further Studies – 2021
- 28 July 2020 Media Release: A positive attitude helped her beat COVID-19
- Official launch of the CRF Regional Office in George
- Leave no one behind through Gender Transformation
EPWP
- 01 March 2023 Media Release: Cater Care Training Programme graduates another successful group
- 12 December 2022 Media Release: Media Release: Cater Care students ready to gain practical experience
- 24 August 2022 Public Notice: Garden Route District Municipality, through the Cater Care (Food Handler) Training Programme – Call for Applications
- 28 June 2022 Media Release: Expanded Public Works Programme (EPWP) and SASSETA visit GRDM
- 13 June 2022 Opportunities For Unemployed Youth in the Western Cape
- 12 April 2022 Media Release: Saasveld road construction is nearing completion
- 8 December 2021 Media Release: Garden Route District Municipality mourns the tragic loss of another employee
- 1 September 2021 Media Release: GRDM appoints unemployed youth to relieve healthcare professionals at vaccination sites
- 12 June 2021 Media Release: The world is your oyster, and nothing can keep you back!
- 15 June 2021 Call to Register: EPWP Contractor Development Programme – Apply today!
- 3 June 2021 Media Release: GRDM Executive hands over registration certificates for cooperative and PPE to ‘Farming-with-Pride’ Small Scale Farmers in Calitzdorp
- 26 May 2021 Media Release: GRDM Executive Mayor and Mayoral Committee visit three key projects in the Greater Oudtshoorn and Kannaland areas
- 14 May 2021 Media Release: GRDM Executive Mayor encourages participants of Mayoral Programmes during Certificate Ceremony
- 3 May 2021 Media Release: Garden Route DM: Nineteen (19) youth being up-skilled for Food Handling
- 18 January 2021 Media Release: Cedric Buys’ passing still mourned by GRDM
- 10 September 2020 Media Release: Illegal dumping needs to stop for the sake of all of us
- 5 August 2020 Media Release: More EPWP essential workers for the Garden Route to stop the spread of COVID-19
- Media Release: EPWP essential workers to assist at Covid-19 hotspots in the Garden Route
- EPWP Grant Allocation Workshop
- Official Launch of GRDM Training Programmes
- Cater Care Certificate ceremony
- 67 Minutes of Charitable Work
- Eden DM hosts an EPWP Workshop
- Eden DM a helping hand in hospitality and tourism training
- Youth of Eden district benefiting from (EPWP) Hospitality Training Programme
Executive Mayor
- 22 March 2023 Media release: Garden Route District hosts its 2nd Safer Schools Conference
- 9 March 2023 Statement: Legal action against Garden Route DM Municipal Manager a distraction from ongoing discussions between municipalities
- 25 December 2022 𝗠𝗘𝗥𝗥𝗬 𝗖𝗛𝗥𝗜𝗦𝗧𝗠𝗔𝗦!
- 05 December 2022 WELCOME TO THE GARDEN ROUTE AND KLEIN KAROO, SOUTH AFRICA’S MOST BEAUTIFUL AREA
- 01 December 2022 Mayor’s World Aids Day Message – Alderman Memory Booysen
- 30 November 2022 Media Release: GRDM De Hoek Mountain Resort transitioning to a green accommodation facility
- 4 November 2022 Media Release: State-of-the-Art Regional Fire Station expected by June 2023
- 20 October 2022 Media Release: GRDM Executive Mayor wishes the matric class of 2022 the best of luck!
- 19 October 2022 Media Release: Garden Route domestic tourism trip attended by Journalists and Bloggers
- 21 December 2021 Media Release: AVBOB George donated R31 500 to GRDM
- 15 December 2021 Media Release: WELCOME TO THE MOST BEAUTIFUL PART OF SOUTH AFRICA, THE GARDEN ROUTE
- 02 December 2021 Media Release: WELCOME TO THE MOST BEAUTIFUL PART OF SOUTH AFRICA, THE GARDEN ROUTE
- 27 October 2021: Message of Support to the Class of 2021
- 29 September 2021 Speech by Executive Mayor at the 2016/2017 -2021/2022 final Garden Route District Municipality Council Meeting
- 1 September 2021 Media Release: GRDM appoints unemployed youth to relieve healthcare professionals at vaccination sites
- 3 June 2021 Media Release: GRDM Executive hands over registration certificates for cooperative and PPE to ‘Farming-with-Pride’ Small Scale Farmers in Calitzdorp
- 26 May 2021 Media Release: GRDM Executive Mayor and Mayoral Committee visit three key projects in the Greater Oudtshoorn and Kannaland areas
- 14 May 2021 Media Release: GRDM Executive Mayor encourages participants of Mayoral Programmes during Certificate Ceremony
- 22 January 2021 Executive Mayor’s Speech – 1st GRDM Council Meeting of 2021
- 22 December 2020 Media Release: Holiday message by the GRDM Executive Mayor, Alderman Memory Booysen
- 9 December 2020 Executive Mayor’s Speech – GRDM Council meeting
- Address by Executive Mayor, Alderman Memory Booysen, at the Council Meeting today
- 11 November 2020 Media Release: Garden Route District Community Safety Forum established – another first for the Garden Route
- 15 September 2020 Media Alert: Executive Mayor to present the Garden Route’s ‘COVID-19 Policy Response to the Tourism Sector’ to National Parliament
- A warm welcome to our district
Strengthening Relations
- 9 December 2022 Media Release: GRDM is gearing up for the SUMMER SEASON!
- 19 October 2022 Media Release: Garden Route domestic tourism trip attended by Journalists and Bloggers
- 28 June 2022 Media Release: Expanded Public Works Programme (EPWP) and SASSETA visit GRDM
- 13 June 2022 Media Release: Garden Route Skills Mecca Focuses on Renewable Energy
- 19 March 2022 Media Release: Swarms Locusts (grasshoppers) tearing through the Karoo
- 15 March 2022 Media Release: Growth And Development Of The Agricultural Sector In The Garden Route
- 21 February 2022 Media Release: A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step
- 11 November 2020 Media Release: Garden Route District Community Safety Forum established – another first for the Garden Route
- 19 October 2020 Media Release: Reduce, reuse and replant – home composting project rolled out in Bitou
- GRDM hosts its 2nd IDP, Budget and Performance Management Representative Forum
- Upcoming Garden Route DM Skills Summit – 7 February 2019
- Building Smart Cities in a Smart Region
- Eden DM Firefighting Team ready to participate in the 2018 Toughest Firefighter Alive Competition
- 67 Minutes of Charitable Work
- Roads Services Madiba Day
- Role and interventions by the Eden Municipal Health Department during the Knysna Oyster Festival
- UPDATE: Eden DM delegation’s visit to China and Hong Kong: 21-29 JUNE 2018
- Eden DM delegates in China to further discuss investment prospects
- Fencing subsidies provided by Eden DM
- Eden DM Firefighters wins another challenge
- Eden DM engaging with B-Municipalities to prepare for the Garden Route Investment Conference
- Eden District Municipality ready for the Skills Summit
- Eden DM Firefighters attending the 2017 SAESI Conference
- OR Tambo District Municipality visits Eden DM to share best practices
Uncategorized
- 21 April 2023 Cape EAPrac: Public Participation Process
- SPECIAL COUNCIL MEETING at 20 April 2023 at 10:00
- 27 March 2023 Media Release: Fire Emergency Evacuation Drill Training conducted at the Frail Care Centre
- 24 March 2023 Media Release: GRDM Municipal Manager and officials welcome interns to the organisation
- 16 January 2023 Media Release: A Catalyst for Positive Change in Senior Management – ILGM to play a central role
- 25 December 2022 𝗠𝗘𝗥𝗥𝗬 𝗖𝗛𝗥𝗜𝗦𝗧𝗠𝗔𝗦!
- 9 December 2022 Media Release: Garden Route DM is installing 700 smoke detectors in Kannaland
- 4 November 2022 Media Release: Calitzdorp Natural Hot Springs Resort
- 30 September 2022 Media Release: Garden Route Skills Mecca Technicians warmly welcomed by Municipal Manager
- 21 September 2022 Media Release: Garden Route District Municipality Firefighters deliver outstanding performance at TFA-SA
- 30 August 2022 Media Release: GRDM Councillors and officials visit establishments in the Hessequa area
- 24 August 2022 Notice: Public Participation for the Garden Route District Coastal Management Programme – Date for comments extendeds
- 2022 Women’s Day message from the GRDM Speaker, Ald. Georlene Wolmarans
- 13 June 2022 Media Release: International Albinism Awareness Day
- 3 June 2022 Media Release: Officials from Garden Route District Municipality celebrate Employee Wellness Day – 30 employees donated blood!
- 28 May 2022 Public Notice: Adoption of the 2022-2027 Integrated Development Plan (IDP), 2022/2023 Medium Term Revenue and Expenditure Framework and Multi-Year Budget
- 25 February 2022 Public Notice: Demand Database information about Affordable Housing in the Garden Route District
- 21 February 2022 Media Release: A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step
- 24 November 2021 Impact Based Warning: Level 8 Damaging Winds & Level 2 Damaging Waves
- 03 November 2021 Media Release: Firefighters from Garden Route DM educate the youth and elderly about fires
- 30 August 2021 Media Release: Newly appointed MEC of Transport and Public Works visits the Garden Route District
- 28 August 2021 Media Alert: Minister Simmers to conduct Sod-turning for Qolweni Housing Project
- 11 July 2021 Impact Based Weather Warnings for Western Cape and Namaqua: Yellow level 2: Damaging Winds
Youth Development
- 16 May 2023 Opportunities: Construction Management Systems Training for Grades 5-8 Women-owned Businesses
- 12 December 2022 Media Release: Media Release: Cater Care students ready to gain practical experience
- 16 June 2022 Today is Youth Day – Let’s all lead by example
- 15 June 2022 Media Release: Oral health is important
- 13 June 2022 Opportunities For Unemployed Youth in the Western Cape
- 15 March 2022 Media Release: NYDA Focusses on Youth Development In The Garden Route
- 8 November 2021 Media Release: Youth to get vaccinated
- 1 October 2021 Financial Assistance towards Further Studies 2022
- 21 September 2021 Media Release: Garden Route District Municipality (GRDM) Interns receive cellular devices
- 14 May 2021 Media Release: GRDM Executive Mayor encourages participants of Mayoral Programmes during Certificate Ceremony
- 6 October 2020 Financial Assistance towards Further Studies – 2021
- 4 August 2020 Media Release: Bricklaying Apprenticeship continues to benefit youth of the Garden Route
- Media Release: Garden Route students graduate after completing Cater Care Training Programme
- Matric First Work Experience PAY Internship Opportunities 2020/2021 – open 6 to 17 January 2020
- First Youth on the Move event for the district
- 2019 Municipal Graduate Internship Programme
- Youth on the move: Gateway to opportunities
- Eden DM in collaboration with Oudtshoorn empowered creches in Greater Oudsthoorn
- Opportunity for the Youth
- Eden District Municipality ready for the Skills Summit
- Media Release: Youth from Oudtshoorn, George and Great Brak River benefit from First Aid Training
- Youth of Eden district benefiting from (EPWP) Hospitality Training Programme
LED
- 01 March 2023 Media Release: Cater Care Training Programme graduates another successful group
- 28 June 2022 Media Release: Expanded Public Works Programme (EPWP) and SASSETA visit GRDM
- 13 June 2022 Media Release: Garden Route Skills Mecca Focuses on Renewable Energy
- 13 June 2022 Opportunities For Unemployed Youth in the Western Cape
- 15 March 2022 Media Release: NYDA Focusses on Youth Development In The Garden Route
- 15 March 2022 Media Release: Growth And Development Of The Agricultural Sector In The Garden Route
- 14 March 2022 Media Release: Garden Route Skills Mecca Forum Focuses On Youth Development And Agriculture
- 14 March 2022 Media Release: Garden Route DM reaches a decade of ongoing support for Cater Care Students
- Save The Date: Garden Route Skills Mecca Forum to Be Held on 25 February
- 12 January 2022 Media Release: Garden Route Coastal Resorts Perform Exceptionally Well Over the Festive Season
- 25 November 2021 Media Release: Quarterly Skills Mecca Forum draws experts from LGSETA
- 6 July 2021 Media Release: Garden Route DM remains committed to uplifting SMMEs
- 30 March 2021 Media Release: Garden Route DM supports the Klein Karoo Export Agri Hub to create a unique rural economy
- 1 February 2021 Media Release: Invest in our region – Message by Mayor Booysen and a background of the Garden Route
- 19 November 2020 Media Release: Garden Route unemployed youth commences 12-month telecommunication network operations training
- 19 October 2020 Media Release: GRDM SMME Development Programme benefits SMMEs of the Garden Route
- Media Release: Garden Route students graduate after completing Cater Care Training Programme
- Media Release: LED & SCM Indaba underway in Mossel Bay
- Media Release: Local Content and Production (LC&P) Workshop hosted in George
- Leap Entrepreneurial Development / ABSA Accelerator Programme
- All SMME Development Practitioners – book your seat
Climate Change
- 15 May 2023 Media Release: Indaba to reflect on invasive alien plant management and control scenarios
- 24 April 2023 Media Release: Preparing for a changing climate indicates that all is not bad news for the Southern Cape
- 13 October 2022 Media Release: GRDM Disaster Management Section developed a GreenBook to plan for future climate change
- 11 August 2022 Public Notice: Comment – Public Participation for the Garden Route Coastal Management Programme – Closing 20 August 2022
- 20 June 2022 Media Release: Environmental management and climate change under the spotlight at Garden Route Indaba
- 17 June 2022 Media Release: World Day to combat desertification and drought: Blossom’s Emergency Pipeline Project
- 14 June 2022 Public Notice: Notice of Public Participation for the Garden Route District Coastal Management Programme
- 13 June 2022 Media Release: Garden Route Skills Mecca Focuses on Renewable Energy
- 13 January 2022 Weather Advisory for the Western Cape and Namaqualand Region
- 13 July 2021 Media Release: Development of a strategic framework for an alien and invasive biomass economy
- 25 January 2021 Media Release: Climate Change likely to blindside RSA on the back of Covid-19
- 26 October 2020 Media Release: California steaming whilst Knysna and Bitou are reloading for wildfire round number two
- 13 July 2020 Media Release: Understanding drought, the frequency of it, vulnerability and how the Garden Route as a region can adapt to become more resilient
- Garden Route DM hosts United Nations experts on Risk Management, Sustainability and Urban Resilience
- Garden Route aims to find environmental solutions
- Understanding climate change and associated risks to the Southern Cape with the risk of fire looming large in November
- Garden Route District Municipality’s Nina Viljoen now “Dr Nina Viljoen”
- 18 June 2019 The Garden Route Annual Fire Commemoration Event, Climate Change & Adaptation Indaba successfully hosted in Wilderness
- GRDM is taking proactive steps to deal with climate change
- Destruction of ecological infrastructure worsens the impact of floods
- Are we better prepared to deal with fire disasters?
Western Cape Government
- 22 March 2023 Media release: Garden Route District hosts its 2nd Safer Schools Conference
- 4 November 2022 Media Release: State-of-the-Art Regional Fire Station expected by June 2023
- 28 June 2022 Media Release: Expanded Public Works Programme (EPWP) and SASSETA visit GRDM
- 15 June 2022 Media Release: Oral health is important
- 13 June 2022 Media Release: Garden Route Skills Mecca Focuses on Renewable Energy
- 13 June 2022 Opportunities For Unemployed Youth in the Western Cape
- 11 May 2022 Notice: Standing Committee on Transport and Public Works: Public hearings on the Western Cape Provincial Transport Infrastructure Bill
- 5 May 2022 Media Release: Have you washed your hands today?
- 19 March 2022 Media Release: Swarms Locusts (grasshoppers) tearing through the Karoo
- 15 March 2022 Media Release: Growth And Development Of The Agricultural Sector In The Garden Route
- 01 February 2022 Media Release: EXPANSION OF MENTAL HEALTH PROGRAMME
- 15 November 2021 Media Release: Love and warmth – Kangaroo Mother Care
- 28 August 2021 Western Cape Media Alert: Uniondale learners to receive construction toolkits as part of Youth Empowerment Programme
- 3 March 2021 Media Release: First healthcare workers to be vaccinated in Garden Route
- Media Release: Western Cape Human Settlements Partner with Garden Route District Municipality to accelerate service delivery
- 1 February 2021 Media Release: High Alert for Diarrhoea season
- 12 September 2020 Weather Alert: Severe Weather Alert, Veld Fire Conditions – 12 September 2020
- 24 July 2020 Media Release: Garden Route Health Platform Update
- 25 June 2020 Media Release: George midwife shares her COVID-19 experience
- 23 June 2020 Media Release: Fencing subsidies available – call for applications
- “One Day” tourism campaign launched to inspire future travellers to the Western Cape
Finance
- 29 March 2023 Public Notice: Draft Budget 2023/2024 open for Comments
- 24 November 2022 Public Notice: PUBLICATION OF INFORMATION STATEMENT REGARDING THE RAISING OF EXTERNAL LOAN FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF GRDM REGIONAL WASTE MANAGEMENT FACILITY OVER THE 2022/23 – 2024/25 MTREF PERIOD
- 22 November 2022: Notice – Second Adjustment Budget 2022/2023 Approved
- ROLL-OVER ADJUSTMENT BUDGET 2022/2023
- 28 April 2022 For Public Comment: Third Adjustment Budget 2021/2022
- 12 April 2022 Media Release: Several Garden Route DM APAC members complete their terms
- 31 March 2022 For Comment: Draft 2022-2027 Integrated Development Plan (IDP), Draft 2022/2023 Medium Term Revenue and Expenditure Framework and Draft Multi-Year Budget
- 29 October 2021 Media Release: Garden Route District Municipality improves its procurement practices to avoid Deviations
- 2021 08 26 Notice: Roll-Over Adjustment Budget for the period 2021/2022-2023/2024
- 30 March 2021 Media Statement: One finding away from a Clean Audit: Garden Route DM receives its 3rd consecutive Unqualified Audit Outcome
- 27 November 2020 Public Notice: Second Adjustment Budget, 2020/2021 – Open for Comment and Public Inspection
- 29 May 2020 Public Notice: Final Review of 2020/2021 Integrated Development Plan (IDP) and 2020/2021 – 2022/2023 Multi – Year Budget
- GRDM hosts its 2nd IDP, Budget and Performance Management Representative Forum
- An Institutional Strategic Planning Session is underway (12 and 13 March 2019)
- Save the Date: IDP / Budget and PMS Representative Forum Meeting
- Public Notice: Tabling of 2017/18 Annual Report of Garden Route DM
- 18 January 2018 Grants-in-Aid: Call for Proposals
- Municipalities, Sector Departments and Ward Committees discuss the 2018/19 – 2021/22 IDPs
Human Settlements
- 19 May 2023 Media Release: Challenges and Solutions: Minister Kubayi Engages with Local Officials and Communities
- 9 December 2022 Media Release: GRDM Integrated Human Settlements Strategic Plan to be enhanced
- 31 August 2022 Media Release: Social Housing Event – Own Haven Housing Association Introduced to Stakeholders
- 29 May 2022 PUBLIC NOTICE: Invitation to register on the GRDM Housing Demand Database
- 25 April 2022 Media Release: Minister Simmers engages Municipal Executives on Human Settlements matters
- 29 March 2022 Media release: Western Cape Human Settlements opens Individual Subsidy Applications on 1 April 2022
- 17 March 2022 Media Release: The GRDM Proudly Prepares Itself as a Provider of Sustainable Housing Opportunities
- 25 February 2022 Public Notice: Demand Database information about Affordable Housing in the Garden Route District
- 02 September 2021 Media Release: MINISTER SIMMERS VISITS INFORMAL SETTLEMENTS IN THE GARDEN ROUTE
- 30 August 2021 Media Release: Qolweni sod-turning is the start of improved living conditions
- 1 July 2021 Media Release: Western Cape Human Settlements Budget will empower residents in the Garden Route
- 28 June 2021 Media Alert: Western Cape Human Settlements budget heads to Garden Route
- 27 June 2021 Media Release: Western Cape Human Settlements Budget heads to Garden Route
- 20 May 2021 Media Release: Participatory governance central to the success of Garden Route DM’s New Integrated Human Settlements Plan
- 30 April 2021 Media Release: Western Cape Premier Alan Wine and Minister Tertuis Simmers visit Garden Route Housing Projects
- 17 February 2021 Joint Media Alert: Historical Agreement to Accelerate Housing Development in the Garden Route
- 5 February 2021 Media Release: We are one step closer to accreditation to administer human settlements
Mandela Day
- 20 July 2022 Media Release: “Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.”
- 02 August 2021 Media Release: “EHPs ends off Madiba Month on a high note”
- 22 July 2021 Media Release: GRDM Environmental Health Practitioners donate essentials in celebration of Mandela Day
- 18 July 2020 Media Release: Garden Route District Municipality celebrates Mandela Day and donates essential items to the vulnerable
- Roads Services Madiba Day
- Eden District Municipal Health Office in Mossel Bay donated dog food to the Mossel Bay SPCA
- Rampbestuur en Brandweer afdelings besoek Van Der Hoven Laerskool
- Municipal Health in George celebrated Mandela Day with clean-up operation
- Eden DM Municipal Health in Hessequa visited Kruisrivier and Goedgegund Primary schools
- Eden DM se Rampbestuurspersoneel besoek die Hansmoeskraal gemeenskap
- Eden DM Head Office staff donated items to a colleague
- Municipal Health officials in Bitou visited the New Life Creche in Qolweni
- Eden DM in collaboration with Oudtshoorn empowered creches in Greater Oudsthoorn
- Executive Mayor of Eden District Municipality launches the Nelson Mandela Centenary 2018 celebration
- Eden DM Madiba Day Celebrations
- Eden DM Madiba Day Celebrations
Donations
- 30 May 2023 Media Release: Alderlady Ndayi supports Early Childhood Development in Kurland
- 18 April 2023 Media Release: Small Steps, Big Impact: Kids receive much needed school shoes
- 07 March 2023 Media Release: Your breast milk is a lifeline to a small baby
- 27 January 2023 Media Release: Garden Route District Municipality donates mattresses to Kleine Handjies Crèche in Uniondale
- 18 November 2022 Media Relese: Garden Route District Municipality supports Thembalethu Neighbourhood Watch
- 30 August 2022 Media Release: GRDM Councillors and officials visit establishments in the Hessequa area
- 31 May 2022 Media Release: 32 Small Businesses benefitted from the Garden Route District Municipality’s SMME Support and Development Programme
- 21 February 2022 Media Release: A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step
- 10 December 2021 Media Release: GRDM Executive Mayor and stakeholders motivate matric students to achieve success
- 22 July 2021 Media Release: GRDM Environmental Health Practitioners donate essentials in celebration of Mandela Day
- 7 September 2020 Media Release: Donations to vulnerable communities welcomed
- 19 August 2020 Media Release: Garden Route District Municipality acknowledges local humanitarians on World Humanitarian Day
- 18 July 2020 Media Release: Garden Route District Municipality celebrates Mandela Day and donates essential items to the vulnerable
- 15 June 2020 DSD donates essential food items to homeless shelters in the Garden Route district
- Garden Route District Municipality and stakeholders celebrate Mandela Day
- Garden Route DM celebrates nurses day
Budget
- 29 March 2023 Public Notice: Draft Budget 2023/2024 open for Comments
- 30 January 2023: Notice – Third Adjustment Budget 2022/2023 Approved
- 22 November 2022: Notice – Second Adjustment Budget 2022/2023 Approved
- 11 November 2022 Public Notice: IDP/BUDGET AND PMS REPRESENTATIVE FORUM MEETING
- Public Notice: Revised 2022-2027 IDP Process Plan including IDP/Budget and PMS Time Schedule for 2023/24 IDP Review & 2021/2022 Draft Unaudited Annual Report
- 8 June 2022 Public Notice: 2022-2027 District IDP/Budget and PMS Process Plan and District Section 27 Framework
- 28 May 2022 Public Notice: Adoption of the 2022-2027 Integrated Development Plan (IDP), 2022/2023 Medium Term Revenue and Expenditure Framework and Multi-Year Budget
- 28 April 2022 For Public Comment: 2022-2027 Draft District IDP/Budget & PMS Process Plan and District Section 27 Framework
- 28 April 2022 For Public Comment: Third Adjustment Budget 2021/2022
- 31 March 2022 For Comment: Draft 2022-2027 Integrated Development Plan (IDP), Draft 2022/2023 Medium Term Revenue and Expenditure Framework and Draft Multi-Year Budget
- 21 February 2022 Public Notice: 2021/2022 Second Adjustment Budget – Open for Comment and Public Inspection
- 2021 08 25 Notice: 2022/2023 IDP/Budget and PMS Time Schedule & 2020/2021 Draft Unaudited Annual Report
- 2 June 2021 Public Notice: Final Review of the 2021/2022 Integrated Development Plan and 2021/2022 – 2023/2024 Multi-Year Budget
- 7 April 2021 Public Notice: Draft Reviewed 2021/2022 IDP, Draft 2021/2022 Medium Term Revenue and Expenditure Framework and Multi-Year Budget
- DRAFT Reviewed 2020/2021 Integrated Development Plan (IDP), the 2020/2021 Medium Term Revenue and Expenditure Framework & Multi-Year Budget
EAP
- 30 May 2023 Media Release: Employee Wellness Day at GRDM Head Office
- 19 October 2022 Media Release: Great attendance by staff at second GRDM Employee Wellness Day for the year
- 05 05 2022 Media Release: Inspiring hope – Garden Route District Municipality supports ‘Slipper Day’ initiative
- 2 December 2021 Media Release: Employees offered health checks on World AIDS Day
- 10 September 2021 Media Release: GRDM continues extensive Covid-19 Vaccination awareness
- 9 August 2021 Media Release: Progressive steps towards gender equality and mainstreaming by Garden Route District Municipality
- 22 July 2021 Media Release: GRDM Environmental Health Practitioners donate essentials in celebration of Mandela Day
- 18 January 2021 Media Release: Cedric Buys’ passing still mourned by GRDM
- GRDM employees start 2020 on a healthy note
- GRDM employees commemorate Breast Cancer Awareness Month in pink “and green”
- Garden Route District Municipality and stakeholders celebrate Mandela Day
- Wellness day for Garden Route District and George Municipalities
- Garden Route DM attends ‘CANSA Relay for Life’ and donates R15 100 to the cause
- Let’s talk about Mental Health
Resorts
- 31 January 2023 Media Release: A positive turnout for GRDM Coastal Resorts over the holiday season
- Promo Article: Movie nights at De Hoek Mountain Resort and Calitzdorp Hot Springs
- 4 November 2022 Media Release: Calitzdorp Natural Hot Springs Resort
- 13 October 2022 Garden Route District Municipality Notice: 13/2022
- 15 August 2022 Media Release: Another successful Echo Outdoor Gathering event hosted at Calitzdorp Hot Springs
- 6 July 2022 Media Release: Calitzdorp Hot Springs to host a Music, Arts, and Food Gathering with a purpose
- 11 April 2022 Media Release: Annual World Travel Market Africa attended by local and regional tourism representatives
- 12 January 2022 Media Release: Garden Route Coastal Resorts Perform Exceptionally Well Over the Festive Season
- 30 June 2021 Media Release: “We are two weeks ahead of schedule” – upgrades at Calitzdorp Spa
- 20 May 2021 Media Release: GRDM’s Calitzdorp Spa receives a facelift with new roofs
- 20 March 2021 Media Release: GRDM Executive Mayor and stakeholders unveil symbolic benches at Victoria Bay
- Media Release: Temporary closure of all Garden Route District Municipality Resorts
- Inaccurate reporting about the proposed developments of Calitzdorp Spa and De Hoek Mountain Resorts
- Notice – Long-term lease to manage and operate De Hoek and Calitzdorp resorts
Financial Services
- 09 May 2023 Media Release: GRDM Appoints Rian Boshoff as its New Chief Financial Officer
- 31 March 2023 Public Notice: Draft Amended 2022-2027 IDP & Draft 2023/2024 MTREF and Multi-Year Budget – Open for Comment
- 29 March 2023 Public Notice: Draft Budget 2023/2024 open for Comments
- 28 February 2023 Public Notice: 2022/23 Fourth Adjustment Budget – Approved 27 February 2023
- 13 January 2023 Media Release: GRDM CFO spreads his wings to join an International Software Investment company
- 2 December 2022 Media Release: Another clean audit for Garden Route DM – a promise kept!
- 24 November 2022 Public Notice: PUBLICATION OF INFORMATION STATEMENT REGARDING THE RAISING OF EXTERNAL LOAN FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF GRDM REGIONAL WASTE MANAGEMENT FACILITY OVER THE 2022/23 – 2024/25 MTREF PERIOD
- 22 November 2022: Notice – Second Adjustment Budget 2022/2023 Approved
- 28 April 2022 For Public Comment: Third Adjustment Budget 2021/2022
- 21 February 2022 Public Notice: 2021/2022 Second Adjustment Budget – Open for Comment and Public Inspection
- 29 October 2021 Media Release: Garden Route District Municipality improves its procurement practices to avoid Deviations
- 2021 08 26 Notice: Roll-Over Adjustment Budget for the period 2021/2022-2023/2024
- 29 May 2020 Public Notice: Final Review of 2020/2021 Integrated Development Plan (IDP) and 2020/2021 – 2022/2023 Multi – Year Budget
- 28 May 2020 Media Release: Extension of SLA between AON (PTY) Ltd and Garden Route District Municipality for 12 months
Empowerment
- 16 May 2023 Opportunities: Construction Management Systems Training for Grades 5-8 Women-owned Businesses
- 20 October 2022 Media Release: Take action during Breast Cancer Awareness month
- 26 July 2022 Media Release: Garden Route District Municipality’s role in managing of human remains
- 12 July 2022 Media Release: Blanco health outreach to youth
- 16 June 2022 Today is Youth Day – Let’s all lead by example
- 13 June 2022 Media Release: Garden Route Skills Mecca Focuses on Renewable Energy
- 26 April 2022 Media Release: Best of luck Emile Conrad! Keep our flag high!
- 15 March 2022 Media Release: Growth And Development Of The Agricultural Sector In The Garden Route
- 14 March 2022 Media Release: Garden Route Skills Mecca Forum Focuses On Youth Development And Agriculture
- Save The Date: Garden Route Skills Mecca Forum to Be Held on 25 February
- 2 November 2020 Media Release: Garden Route District Municipality welcomes 30 interns for workplace experience
- 8 October 2020 Media Release: October is Breast Cancer Awareness month
- Garden Route sprekers bemagtig Parkie-prefekte
Training and Development
- 16 May 2023 Opportunities: Construction Management Systems Training for Grades 5-8 Women-owned Businesses
- 10 May 2023 Media Release: GRDM adopts its Workplace Skills Plan
- 2 December 2022 Media Release: LGSETA conducts another due diligence visit at GRDM
- 28 June 2022 Media Release: Expanded Public Works Programme (EPWP) and SASSETA visit GRDM
- 13 June 2022 Media Release: Garden Route Skills Mecca Focuses on Renewable Energy
- 13 June 2022 Opportunities For Unemployed Youth in the Western Cape
- 15 March 2022 Media Release: NYDA Focusses on Youth Development In The Garden Route
- 15 March 2022 Media Release: Growth And Development Of The Agricultural Sector In The Garden Route
- 14 March 2022 Media Release: Garden Route Skills Mecca Forum Focuses On Youth Development And Agriculture
- (5 – 14 October) SAVE THE DATES: FREE Facebook, Instagram & WhatsApp for Business training sessions
- 2021 04 22 Media Release: Garden Route DM helps Non-Profit Organisations and students with funding support
- 15 March 2021 Media Release: 90 People benefit from a Garden Route District Municipality Road Construction Leadernship
- 19 November 2020 Media Release: Garden Route unemployed youth commences 12-month telecommunication network operations training
Investment
- 17 May 2023 Media Release: Garden Route and Klein Karoo Tourism Office elevates the region at the 2023 Africa Indaba Show
- 13 June 2022 Media Release: Garden Route Skills Mecca Focuses on Renewable Energy
- 15 March 2022 Media Release: NYDA Focusses on Youth Development In The Garden Route
- 15 March 2022 Media Release: Growth And Development Of The Agricultural Sector In The Garden Route
- 14 March 2022 Media Release: Garden Route Skills Mecca Forum Focuses On Youth Development And Agriculture
- Save The Date: Garden Route Skills Mecca Forum to Be Held on 25 February
- 03 February 2022 Wesgro to promote Tourism, Export and Investment for the Garden Route District
- 1 February 2021 Media Release: Invest in our region – Message by Mayor Booysen and a background of the Garden Route
- GRDM Leadership’s visit to Indonesia
- Eden DM delegates in China to further discuss investment prospects
- Eden DM engaging with B-Municipalities to prepare for the Garden Route Investment Conference
- Swedish Delegation explores potential investment opportunities in the Eden district
Achievements
- 27 August 2022 Media Release: LGSETA DISCRETIONARY GRANT 2022/23 ALLOCATIONS FOR GARDEN ROUTE DISTRICT MUNICIPALITY
- 12 April 2022 Media Release: Several Garden Route DM APAC members complete their terms
- 15 March 2022 Media Release: Growth And Development Of The Agricultural Sector In The Garden Route
- Media Release: Garden Route students graduate after completing Cater Care Training Programme
- Garden Route District Municipality’s Nina Viljoen now “Dr Nina Viljoen”
- Wilderness beach awarded “Pilot Blue Flag” certification
- Eden DM Firefighting Team ready to participate in the 2018 Toughest Firefighter Alive Competition
- Executive Mayor of Eden District Municipality launches the Nelson Mandela Centenary 2018 celebration
- Eden DM nominated as one of the top 5 finalist for Eco Logic Biodiversity Awards
- Eden DM Firefighters wins another challenge
- Eden DM Municipal Manager elected as the President of ILGM
- Eden DM receives recognition for its contribution to the Wetlands South Africa project
Speeches
- Executive Mayor, Ald. Memory Booysen’s speech during an Ordinary Council meeting on 30 January 2023
- Executive Mayor, Ald. Memory Booysen’s speech during an Ordinary Council meeting on 14 December 2022
- Executive Mayor, Ald. Memory Booysen’s speech during an Ordinary Council meeting on 25 October 2022
- Executive Mayor, Ald. Memory Booysen’s speech during an Ordinary Council meeting on 27 July 2022
- Executive Mayor, Ald. Memory Booysen’s speech during an Ordinary Council meeting on 25 January 2022
- 10 December 2021 Speech by Executive Mayor during a Special Council Meeting
- 25 November 2021 Acceptance Speech – Executive Mayor, Alderman Memory Booysen
- 25 May 2021 Executive Mayor’s Speech at the GRDM Council Meeting
- 30 March 2021 Executive Mayor’s Speech – GRDM Council Meeting
- 23 February 2021 Executive Mayor’s Speech – GRDM Council Meeting
- Speech by Mayor Booysen at the 20th Council Meeting of Garden Route DM
- 2019 SODA Speech – Executive Mayor, Cllr Memory Booysen
Planning
- 30 November 2022 Media Release: GRDM De Hoek Mountain Resort transitioning to a green accommodation facility
- 28 June 2022 Media Release: Expanded Public Works Programme (EPWP) and SASSETA visit GRDM
- 13 June 2022 Media Release: Garden Route Skills Mecca Focuses on Renewable Energy
- 15 March 2022 Media Release: NYDA Focusses on Youth Development In The Garden Route
- 15 March 2022 Media Release: Growth And Development Of The Agricultural Sector In The Garden Route
- 14 March 2022 Media Release: Garden Route Skills Mecca Forum Focuses On Youth Development And Agriculture
- 8 December 2021 Media Release: Garden Route District Municipality mourns the tragic loss of another employee
- 30 March 2021 Media Release: 2021–2040 Garden Route Growth and Development Strategy approved by Council
- Public Notice: Proposed Long-Term Lease of a Portion of Erf 419 Mossel Bay to Ikusasa Processing Engineer
- Public Notice: Proposed Long-Term lease of a Portion of Farm 419 Mossel Bay Landfill Site to Moumakoe Energy (Pty) Ltd
Garden Route Rebuild
- 28 June 2022 Media Release: Expanded Public Works Programme (EPWP) and SASSETA visit GRDM
- 17 June 2022 Media Release: World Day to combat desertification and drought: Blossom’s Emergency Pipeline Project
- 13 June 2022 Media Release: Garden Route Skills Mecca Focuses on Renewable Energy
- 13 June 2022 Opportunities For Unemployed Youth in the Western Cape
- 14 March 2022 Media Release: Garden Route Skills Mecca Forum Focuses On Youth Development And Agriculture
- Save The Date: Garden Route Skills Mecca Forum to Be Held on 25 February
- Garden Route Environmental Forum launches extensive landowner assistance programme
- 18 June 2019 The Garden Route Annual Fire Commemoration Event, Climate Change & Adaptation Indaba successfully hosted in Wilderness
- Upcoming Garden Route DM Skills Summit – 7 February 2019
Employee Assistance
- 30 May 2023 Media Release: Employee Wellness Day at GRDM Head Office
- 3 June 2022 Media Release: Officials from Garden Route District Municipality celebrate Employee Wellness Day – 30 employees donated blood!
- 18 January 2021 Media Release: Cedric Buys’ passing still mourned by GRDM
- 8 October 2020 Media Release: October is Breast Cancer Awareness month
- Nedbank educates and advises GRDM staff on their financial well-being
- GRDM employees start 2020 on a healthy note
- Employees donate to NPO
- World Diabetes Day
- Leave no one behind through Gender Transformation
Special Council Meeting
- 02 June 2023 Public Notice: Special Council Meeting – 09 June 2023 at 09:00
- 02 May 2023 Public Notice: Special Council Meeting – 09 May 2023 at 11:00
- SPECIAL COUNCIL MEETING at 20 April 2023 at 10:00
- Special Council Meeting at 10h00 on 13 January 2023
- 8 December 2022: Special Council Meeting at 15h00
- 10 December 2021 Speech by Executive Mayor during a Special Council Meeting
- 7 October 2021 Save the Date: Special Council Meeting – 13 October 2021 at 11:00 am
- Notice of a Special Council Meeting on 25 March 2020 at 11:00
- Notice of a Special Council Meeting on 27 November 2019 at 11:00
Community Services
- 24 October 2022 Media Statement: Garden Route District Municipality’s role in the Rooikat Recycling Project
- 12 September 2022 Media Release: GRDM faced with another tragic loss – Adri Miles passes away
- 27 August 2022 Media Release: The GRDM salutes a true public servant
- 26 July 2022 Media Release: Garden Route District Municipality’s role in managing of human remains
- 22 June 2022 Media Release: Garden Route District sources smoke detectors for Qolweni and Bossiesgif
- 29 March 2022 Media release: Wowee for WoW! Champions
- 30 June 2021 Media Release: “We are two weeks ahead of schedule” – upgrades at Calitzdorp Spa
- 28 January 2021 Media Release: GRDM delegation led by Executive Mayor visits Garden Route Food Pantry
- Media Release: COVID-19 braille guidelines distributed to public
Women's Month
- 2022 Women’s Day message from the GRDM Speaker, Ald. Georlene Wolmarans
- 02 August 2022 Media Release: Women’s Month launched at Garden Route DM – every single effort will make a difference, no matter how small
- 9 August 2021 Media Release: Progressive steps towards gender equality and mainstreaming by Garden Route District Municipality
- 9 August 2020 Media Release: Women’s Day Message by Municipal Manager Monde Stratu
- 9 August 2020 Message from Alderman Barend Groenewald – GRDM Speaker
- 5 August 2020 Message from Councillor Clodia Lichaba
- 4 August 2020 Message from Ms Mouseline Maree
- 3 August 2020 Message from Councillor Liza Stroebel
- 01 August 2020: Message from Alderlady Rosina Ruiters, Deputy Executive Mayor
Women's Day
- 2022 Women’s Day message from the GRDM Speaker, Ald. Georlene Wolmarans
- 9 August 2021 Media Release: Progressive steps towards gender equality and mainstreaming by Garden Route District Municipality
- 9 August 2020 Media Release: Women’s Day Message by Municipal Manager Monde Stratu
- 9 August 2020 Message from Alderman Barend Groenewald – GRDM Speaker
- 5 August 2020 Message from Councillor Clodia Lichaba
- 4 August 2020 Message from Ms Mouseline Maree
- 3 August 2020 Message from Councillor Liza Stroebel
- 01 August 2020: Message from Alderlady Rosina Ruiters, Deputy Executive Mayor
Community Safety
- 12 May 2023 Media Release: Fire Awareness session done at the “Draadkar” Festival in Hoogekraal
- 22 March 2023 Media release: Garden Route District hosts its 2nd Safer Schools Conference
- 14 March 2023 Media Release: Establishment of a Community Safety Forum for the Greater Oudtshoorn
- 18 November 2022 Media Relese: Garden Route District Municipality supports Thembalethu Neighbourhood Watch
- 04 May 2022 Media Release: Successful annual Gender–Based Violence Prevention and Awareness Summit hosted in the Garden Route District
- 27 January 2021 is National Police Day
- 11 November 2020 Media Release: Garden Route District Community Safety Forum established – another first for the Garden Route
- Driving Change through Community Safety and Welfare
MPAC
- 2 December 2022 Media Release: Another clean audit for Garden Route DM – a promise kept!
- 01 December 2022 Save the Date: Public Notice – Combined MPAC & APAC Meeting – 02/12/2022 at 09:00
- 01 December 2022 Save the Date: Notice – Municipal Public Accounts Committee – 06/12/2022 at 16h00
- 28 October 2022 Save the Date: MPAC Meeting on 31 October 2022 at 10:00 am
- 29 August 2022 Notice of a combined APAC/MPAC meeting on 29 August 2022 at 09h00
- 6 December 2021 Media Release: Garden Route DM celebrates Clean Audit and commits to retain it
- 26 March 2021 Public Notice: Join the Municipal Public Accounts Committee (MPAC) Meeting on Monday, 29 March 2021
- 25 March 2021 Public Notice: Join the Municipal Public Accounts Committee (MPAC) Meeting
Cater Care
- 01 March 2023 Media Release: Cater Care Training Programme graduates another successful group
- 12 December 2022 Media Release: Media Release: Cater Care students ready to gain practical experience
- 24 August 2022 Public Notice: Garden Route District Municipality, through the Cater Care (Food Handler) Training Programme – Call for Applications
- 14 March 2022 Media Release: Garden Route DM reaches a decade of ongoing support for Cater Care Students
- 28 October 2021 Media Release: Another 22 students to reap fruits from Garden Route DM Cater Care Programme
- 30 August 2021 Notification: Cater Care (Food Handler) Training Programme
- 12 June 2021 Media Release: The world is your oyster, and nothing can keep you back!
- 3 May 2021 Media Release: Garden Route DM: Nineteen (19) youth being up-skilled for Food Handling
Agriculture
- 17 June 2022 Media Release: World Day to combat desertification and drought: Blossom’s Emergency Pipeline Project
- 15 March 2022 Media Release: Growth And Development Of The Agricultural Sector In The Garden Route
- 14 March 2022 Media Release: Garden Route Skills Mecca Forum Focuses On Youth Development And Agriculture
- Save The Date: Garden Route Skills Mecca Forum to Be Held on 25 February
- 6 September 2021 Media Release: Garden Route DM commits an additional R 2.5 million towards export hub
- 29 September 2020 Media Release: Resource management is key to Eastern Cape survival
- Garden Route Inter-governmental Agriculture Workshop held to strengthen agriculture in the district
Annual Report
- 15 December 2022 PUBLIC NOTICE: 2021/2022 ANNUAL REPORT & OVERSIGHT REPORT
- Public Notice: Revised 2022-2027 IDP Process Plan including IDP/Budget and PMS Time Schedule for 2023/24 IDP Review & 2021/2022 Draft Unaudited Annual Report
- 10 December 2021 Public Notice: NOTICE OF 2020/2021 ANNUAL REPORT AND OVERSIGHT REPORT
- 7 April 2021 Public Notice: 2019/2020 Annual Report & 2019/2020 Oversight Report
- 12 March 2021 Public Notice: Municipal Public Accounts Committee (MPAC) Meeting on 23 March 2021 at 10:00 am
- 1 November 2020 NOTICE 61/2020 – 2019/2020 UNAUDITED DRAFT ANNUAL REPORT
- NOTICE OF 2018/2019 ANNUAL REPORT& 2018/2019 OVERSIGHT REPORT
Illegal Dumping
- 10 February 2023 Save the Date: Garden Route District Municipality to embark on an Illegal Dumping Campaign
- 30 August 2022 Media Release: GRDM Councillors and officials visit establishments in the Hessequa area
- 27 October 2021 Media Release: We are controlling alien invasive species on all our properties
- 24 November 2020 Media Release: Municipalities place skips in Thembalethu and Pacaltsdorp
- 12 November 2020 Media Release: Awareness about the dangers of illegal dumping continues
- 8 October 2020 Media Statement: Municipal communicators make shocking discoveries at illegal dump site
- 29 September 2020 Media Release: Resource management is key to Eastern Cape survival
Women Empowerment
- 16 May 2023 Opportunities: Construction Management Systems Training for Grades 5-8 Women-owned Businesses
- 20 October 2022 Media Release: Take action during Breast Cancer Awareness month
- 2022 Women’s Day message from the GRDM Speaker, Ald. Georlene Wolmarans
- 1 October 2021 Media Release: Take action during Breast Cancer Awareness month
- 9 August 2021 Media Release: Progressive steps towards gender equality and mainstreaming by Garden Route District Municipality
- 14 May 2021 Media Release: GRDM Executive Mayor encourages participants of Mayoral Programmes during Certificate Ceremony
- 2 February 2021 Media Release: “I am the first one” – GRDM helped Thembisa to obtain her Code 14 licence
Calitzdorp Hot Springs
- ALERT: CALITZDORP HOT SPRINGS TEMPORARILY CLOSED DUE TO FLOODS