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Wednesday evening’s storm saw up to 100mm of rain falling in some areas, but not enough to have much impact on the water-stressed region of Nelson Mandela Bay and the Kouga area where dams are predicted to run dry in the next few months. Garth Sampson from Weather SA said that rainfall intensity and amounts were patchy east of Plettenberg Bay, with between 1mm and 45mm measured at different locations in the metro. “It is difficult to determine what happened in the Kouga mountains, but in and around Kareedouw, between 30mm and 45mm were measured. There were reports of flooding in places in...

Nomazima Nkosi"> By Nomazima Nkosi - 01 May 2021 - 10:09 Kouga mayor Horatio Hendricks Image: Supplied The SA Municipal Workers’ Union was given a bloodied nose on Friday when the labour court in Gqeberha prohibited its members from striking for a Covid-19 danger allowance and instructed it to pay the legal costs. Kouga municipality dragged the union to court after days of protests over the workers’ demand for a R1,500 Covid-19 danger allowance. In March, the municipality successfully interdicted Samwu from continuing with its strike action — described by the mu...

The Kouga Municipality together with the Kouga Business Forum (KBF), has started a water drive to aid the drought-stricken communities of Hankey and Patensie in the Eastern Cape. Kouga Executive Mayor, Horatio Hendricks, said in a statement that the towns of Hankey and Patensie has been hardest hit. “The Kouga municipal region is in the grips of a devastating drought. The towns of Hankey and Patensie have been hit the hardest as they depend completely on the Kouga Dam for potable water.” The dam level dropped to below 5% this week, with no significant rainfall predicted for the catchment...

Kouga rubbish collection could suffer after refuse trucks set alight By Riaan Marais - 01 April 2021 Refuse removal services in the Jeffreys Bay area could suffer after two new refuse trucks were set on fire on Wednesday night. The Kouga municipality said on Thursday the “deliberate act of destruction” could be related to a strike by municipal workers... FREE TO READ | Just register if you’re new, or sign in.

Kouga workers also on strike over Covid allowance By Nomazima Nkosi - 13 March 2021 The demand for a Covid-19 danger allowance by municipal workers has made its way to Kouga, where workers have been on an almost weeklong strike. Workers affiliated to the SA Municipal Workers’ Union (Samwu) downed tools this week, saying their cries were being ignored by municipal bosses... FREE TO READ | Just register if you’re new, or sign in.