At the Western Cape Government Service Excellence Awards (SEA) event held this evening, 12, May 2023, at Century City Conference Centre. Overstrand Municipality was announced as the category “ Best Municipality” winner.

Well done team Overstrand.

Overstrand competed with cities around the world in the City Nature Challenge, to gather the most observations about nature in an effort to help document biodiversity.

The global results of the City Nature Challenge 2023 show that over the four-day competition, the Overstrand collected a grand total of 14 190 observations. Of those observations, a total of 2 002 species have been identified, 397 of which were red-listed plants and animals in the Overstrand. This year, Overstrand boasted 397 identifiers and 191 observers.

“We placed third in Southern Africa, with eThekwini second (15 152 observations) and Cape Town first with a whopping 52 720 observations - placing them third in the world! Overall, the Overstrand is placed 31st in the world,” Sandy Immelman, one of the Overstrand Bioblitzing Facilitators, said.

Africa's Travel Indaba 2023 at Durban's Inkosie Albert Luthuli International Convention Centre officially ended on 11 May 2023, after three days of intense connecting, marketing and networking. 

It is a platform for all tourism players and exhibitors from Africa's 21 countries to showcase their best tourism products and offerings.

Any business wanting to attend the Indaba can do so - as a stand-alone product owner or a collective.

This is the first year that Overstrand Municipality had its own separate stand. In previous years Overstrand was allocated a small desk on the Wesgro stand.

The SA Weather Service (SAWS) is warning of rain across the Overberg area on Friday, 12 May 2023. Flooding of roads and settlements can be expected.

They also issued a warning of strong winds and high seas. With these strong winds, there is a good possibility of the uncontrolled spread of any wild fires.

Please take the proper safety precautions to protect yourself and your family - especially against the cold in the current state of load shedding.

• Any emergency or distress call relating to a FIRE OR FLOOD EMERGENCY, phone OVERSTRAND FIRE & RESCUE SERVICES on 028 312 2400