Overstrand Tourism returned from the annual Africa’s Travel Indaba and continued with an intense level of engagement on several projects.  While CapeNature Stony Point Penguin Colony’s boardwalk has been closed for repair work till the end of June 2023 there has been increased attention given towards the plight of the endangered African penguin with a new four-year WWF Kleinmond project to Save the African Penguin.  This project will be rolled out with stakeholder engagement sessions and there has already been an advertisement published recruiting two environmental monitors.

The Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Section has added geographical value to the Overstrand Municipal web page with the GIS mapping link that now boasts not only a Map Viewer but a PDF Gallery as well.

This Overstrand Maps/GIS link can be found on www.overstrand.gov.za under the Eskom logo (almost in the middle of the page on the right-hand side).

After clicking on the GIS link you will see the two icons: a ‘map viewer’ and a ‘PDF Gallery’.

The map viewer has a toolbar on top of the page where the information button can be found. This button will give you an overview regarding the information available for this map - for example, zoning, heritage, sewage lines and property-based info, to name but a few. The property layer associated with this map is updated regularly.

Please take note that all Indigent Subsidies approved on or before 30 June 2022 and that have not been renewed since 1 July 2022, will expire on 31 May 2023.

Affected households will automatically forfeit their indigent subsidies and free basic services (such as the electricity units) after the end of the month.

Overstrand Municipality calls on all indigent consumers to re-apply and to submit applications as soon as possible. New applications will be implemented as from date of application.

Affected indigent consumers can visit any of the municipal offices in Gansbaai, Stanford, Hermanus or Kleinmond during the week.

Despite the provincial library information management system (SLIMS) still being offline, Overstrand Municipality’s libraries are open and ready to assist our bookworms.

Until the SLIMS system is back online, members may borrow a limited number of books over a certain period of time. Library material can be renewed over the phone.

As an alternative, we encourage library members to download the LIBBY app onto their smart phone, tablet, laptop or computer and sign up to borrow eBooks and audiobooks at no charge.

To download the LIBBY ap, go to your phone’s app store, search for Overdrive’s Libby App (overdrive.com/apps/libby/) and follow the instructions to borrow the title you want.

To log into LIBBY you will be using your library credentials.