As the campaign comes to an end, Overstrand Municipality's Social Department handed out care packs comprised of toiletries for adult victims, disposable nappies and baby formula to SAPS Trauma Rooms in Hermanus, Kleinmond, Stanford and Gansbaai.

According to Ronell Salies, the Overstrand Municipal Thusong Centre Co-ordinator, these are much needed items - "especially over the festive season where we see an increase in abuse against women and children. In support of this initiative we say, “enough is enough”.

On receiving the care pack for victims of abuse serviced by the Hermanus Police Station, Captain Fadila September said, “Thank you so much for this donation.  These items will bring comfort and offer relief to those women and children who unfortunately find themselves in need of our assistance.”

On Friday, 11 December 2020, Overstrand Municipality awarded bursaries to four deserving students within the municipal area who are pursuing their tertiary studies in die 2021 academic year.

The learners are Kyle Philander (Hermanus), Mia Burgess (Gansbaai), Renaldo Dickson (Stanford) and Liam Africa (Hawston).

The aim of this programme is to support students who are performing academically; have a real interest in uplifting and changing the community for the better; and who shows his/her potential but do not have the financial means to study towards a qualification.

Bursaries are awarded within fields relating to local government, in particular the fields of Finance, Accounting, Supply Chain Management, Internal Audit, Risk Management, Economics and Infrastructure.

We wish the students a fruitful year and urge them to take every opportunity offered by the bursary programme and the higher education institutions to better their education.

The Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC) announced the results of the by-elections held across the country on 9 December 2020.

Michael Mhana of the Land Party is the new councillor for Ward 12 in the Overstrand Municipality (Zwelihle).

The party won the seat from the ANC which won it in the 2016 Municipal Elections. Voter turnout was 37.99%.

A comprehensive list of the by-election results is available on the IEC website (www.elections.org.za).

The Overstrand Municipal cashier hall and revenue offices at the Kleinmond Administration has closed for the remainder of today (11 December 2020) due to COVID-19 related measures.

The revenue offices will re-open on Monday, 14 December 2020 at 07:45. The cashier hall will only open on Tuesday, 15 December 2020 at 07:45.

No payments of municipal accounts and pre-paid electricity can be made.

Accounts can be paid via Pay@ and Easy Pay systems and online banking/EFT and at various third-party agents such as Pick 'n Pay, Checkers and Spar as well as garages (Engen) etc.