Mayor Jackie von Brandis

🚨Attention all residents!🚨

This week is Annual Thusong Centre Week from September 16th to 20th! As part of this week's activities, we are excited to officially launch the Pacaltsdorp Mobile Thusong Centre on September 18th.

In August, MMC Social Development Sport Cllr Melvin Roelfse, attended the soft launch of the Mobile Thusong Centre, where various vendors, including Home Affairs, SASSA, and the IEC, were in attendance.

We invite all residents to join us on 18th of September for the official launch of the Pacaltsdorp Mobile Thusong Centre. We look forward to celebrating this milestone with you and exploring the opportunities and services that this centre will bring to our community.

Date: September 18th
Time: 09h00 - 15h00
Venue: Mission Street, Pacaltsdorp

Geluk aan Evergreens!!! Wenners van die grootuitdaag op Outeniqua Park. Finale telling 31 - 22

Let's go EVERGREENS!!

Vandag is ons agter ons span, Evergreens.

I am at the stadium today, joined by the Mayor of Hessequa Municipality, Grant Riddles, and the Speaker of Mossel Bay Municipality, Venolea Fortuin! These two will see their teams, Heidelberg and Groot Brak, face off in the SWD rugby club finals. The atmosphere is great and there is plenty of rugby planned for the day.

🚨In an effort to promote waste reduction, our Environmental Services department, in conjunction with Henque Waste and EWASA, will be hosting a World Recycling Day next Friday, 20th September at the Lawaaikamp Community Hall.

Residents, SMMEs and waste pickers are invited to attend the event and be a part of the day’s activities. Please remember, as seats are limited, RSVP before 18th September to secure your spot. (details are listed in the graphic below.)

We ask that you join us on the day, as we work towards making our municipality a clean and green City!🚨

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Ons besoek aan Borcherds waar ons spanne besig is met klagtes wat ons vanaf lede van die gemeenskap ontvang het.

🚨THIS IS A PLEA TO ALL RESIDENTS ACROSS OUR MUNICIPAL AREA!🚨

The safety of our municipal officials who attend to after-hours service delivery calls is under serious threat due to a rise in crime-related incidents, intimidation, and the theft of essential municipal equipment.

As the municipality, we would like to call on our residents to assist in safeguarding officials working in their communities. If our officials are not safe, your service delivery complaints cannot be attended to in the appropriate manner or completed within appropriate timeframes. So I would like to plea to our residents to assist where they can to ensure that our officials are safe on the job so that complaints can be attended to.

🚨In an effort to promote waste reduction, our Environmental Services department, in conjunction with Henque Waste and EWASA, will be hosting a World Recycling Day next Friday, 20th September at the Lawaaikamp Community Hall.
Residents, SMMEs and waste pickers are invited to attend the event and be a part of the day’s activities. Please remember, as seats are limited, RSVP before 18th September to secure your spot. (details are listed in the graphic below.)
We ask that you join us on the day, as we work towards making our municipality a clean and green City!🚨

Well done MMC Social Development Sport Cllr Melvin Roelfse and our Social Development Department for this amazing initiative. The People Living On The Streets (PLOTS) initiative is one that seeks to support the homeless through reunification and jobs skills training.

The forum attended by Cllr Melvin Roelfse works on an integrated, holistic approach to address the needs of the homeless.

Today MMC Social Development Sport Cllr Melvin Roelfse attended the PLOTS Committee meeting that focus on the phenomena of People Living on the street, or what is also been referred to as some people whom are homeless.

This Important Meeting took Place at the George Municipality Social Development department at 10h00am 11 September 2024.
Various Government Departments as well as Civil Society Organization attended, together with Officials from George Municipality.

People living on the streets affects Families, Communities, Businesses as well as the Municipality. This forum works in an Integrated Holistic approach where all role players each has a specific function when it comes to addressing the needs for people living on the streets, whether children, youth, adults, elderly or people with dissability.

This meeting looks at effective ways on how to Curb Plots, but also at rehabilitation and developing the skills of Plots, reintegration back into families, Job skills programme's and lobbying for resources to address these concerns.

Through Project Hope, Our Municipality have thus far assisted many people, not only from George, but also with families outside of George, Capetown, JHb to be reunited with their families and have developed programme's where Plots can sustain themselves through sewing, beadwork and woodwork.

This programme also forms part of our Vision of our New Executive Mayor Jackie von Brandis, to make George a Safer City for all.
We are looking at various plans in future to efficiently curb this prevalence of People.living on the streets.

If you would like to become part of this solution, please contact our MMC on 0743680729 or visit our Social Development Office behind the Glass building in York street.

Today MMC Social Development Sport Cllr Melvin Roelfse attended the PLOTS Committee meeting that focus on the phenomena of People Living on the street, or what is also been referred to as some people whom are homeless.

This Important Meeting took Place at the George Municipality Social Development department at 10h00am 11 September 2024.
Various Government Departments as well as Civil Society Organization attended, together with Officials from George Municipality.

People living on the streets affects Families, Communities, Businesses as well as the Municipality. This forum works in an Integrated Holistic approach where all role players each has a specific function when it comes to addressing the needs for people living on the streets, whether children, youth, adults, elderly or people with dissability.

This meeting looks at effective ways on how to Curb Plots, but also at rehabilitation and developing the skills of Plots, reintegration back into families, Job skills programme's and lobbying for resources to address these concerns.

Through Project Hope, Our Municipality have thus far assisted many people, not only from George, but also with families outside of George, Capetown, JHb to be reunited with their families and have developed programme's where Plots can sustain themselves through sewing, beadwork and woodwork.

This programme also forms part of our Vision of our New Executive Mayor Jackie von Brandis, to make George a Safer City for all.
We are looking at various plans in future to efficiently curb this prevalence of People.living on the streets.

If you would like to become part of this solution, please contact our MMC on 0743680729 or visit our Social Development Office behind the Glass building in York street.

I was invited to take a tour of the grounds at Outeniqua High School this morning with Principal Christo Vorster and Messrs Fillip Venter and Jacques Els.

It was great to meet some of the staff at the school and check out their excellent facilities, including the laboratories, their music room and their hydroponics farming green house.

Our work towards ensuring that George remains a safe city is forging ahead!

I am at Fancourt this afternoon with our administration at the Ontec User Conference.

The purpose of this conference is to bring together different stakeholders (local government, private sector, etc) to discuss the move towards smart cities.

We Forge Ahead With Safety

As we continue to expand into a larger city, so do the challenges related to the safety of our citizens, visitors, and businesses. In response, our Community Safety Division has developed an Integrated Community Safety Strategy designed to ensure the safety of all who reside, study, visit, work, and invest in George.

Earlier this week our MMCs and I had the opportunity to see the work being done by Community Safety and view the new Opps Centre.

Safety is essential to creating viable, competitive, and sustainable cities, and local government is the most effective driver of this goal. Cities offer opportunities for people from all walks of life, but they also concentrate crime and violence. This strategy aims to mitigate safety risks while addressing the challenges that accompany the city’s growth. I am so proud of the work being done by Community Safety and Cllr Stamhoof Brendon Torob Adams to ensure that George Municipality is a safe city.

I am at Rosemoor Stadium with our Social Services team to join in on the Q***r and Trans Festivities taking place here. This event marks the culmination of a busy week for our team who lead workshops with healthcare specialists and members of the public. Today, we celebrate with this community and the great work being done by our department.

This morning the Members of the Mayoral Committee (MMC) and I are with our Community Saftey Department to discuss our Integrated Operations Centre.

We need to ensure the safety of ALL residents. Thank you Cllr Stamhoof Brendon Torob Adams for the work you and your department are doing to make this a realisation.

The Transport Education Training Authority [TETA] invites qualifying unemployed learners to apply for bursaries for the 2025 academic year.
The online application system can be accessed through: https://indicium.teta.org.za/Account/Login.aspx
🗓️Submission deadline: 11 September 2025 at 23h59

Further down in Figland Street, some residents in the area showed us more of their areas of concern. We are on the ground to ensure that these service delivery issues get the urgent attention they need.

We are in Figland Street and Christo Alexander (a concerned resident from the area) points out a few problems in this particular street. Members of our administration are with us to witness the service delivery issues that need attention.

We are in Borcherds this morning, MMCs and our administration after several complaints from our residents. We are here to ensure that we fulfill our service delivery mandate for ALL of our residents.