The Commission for Gender Equality (CGE) presented a programme about Gender Mainstreaming (equality, empowerment and transformation) on 7 and 8…
Update on the Ambient Air Quality Monitoring: October 2019
The Garden Route District Municipality’s (GRDM) Air Quality Management Unit is pleased to announce that the futuristic robotic looking portable…
Garden Route Municipality hosts 6th Green Energy Forum
The 6th Garden Route Green Energy Forum was recently held at the Council Chambers of Garden Route District Municipality (GRDM)…
GRDM Roads & Transport Planning – A leader in new machinery and women empowerment
Officials from the Garden Route District Roads and Transport Planning Department, on 6 September 2019, welcomed a brand new Chip…
Garden Route DM: Health Surveillance of Premises
Health surveillance of premises is a function of Garden Route District Municipality’s (GRDM’s) Municipal Health Services (MHS) Section who serve…
Saluting Women Firefighters at Garden Route District Municipality
Garden Route District Municipality is home to seven (7) Women Firefighters, who form part of a group of 40 Firefighters…
Garden Route District Municipality celebrated Mandela Day with partners
The respective departments of Garden Route District Municipality (GRDM) used their 67 minutes to celebrate the life of former and…
Garden Route District Municipality’s Nina Viljoen now “Dr Nina Viljoen”
Nina Viljoen, Disaster Risk Reduction & Climate Change Adaptation Practitioner at the Garden Route District Municipality (GRDM), was on 12…
Students overfilled with joy after completing a 3-month Cater Care Course
The day you were born you were given many gifts. One such gift is the gift of ‘free will’. What…
Food scraps have a purpose
There are various easy methods published online on how to reduce food waste in households. One such a method is…
Extension of SLA between AON (PTY) Ltd and Garden Route District Municipality for 12 months
The Garden Route District Municipality (GRDM) Council has appointed AON (underwritten by Lion of Africa) during 2015/2016, following a competitive…
Revision of Air Quality Management Plan for the Garden Route District
In follow up to the previous notification sent to you in this regard (28 May 2019), please find this notification…
Garden Route District Municipality sponsors tree planting day
The Garden Route District Municipality sponsors tree planting day at the Garden Route Botanical Garden on Friday, 5 July 2019.…
Both parties in agreement when electing New Speaker
The Garden Route District Municipality (GRDM) is delighted to announce that the Acting Speaker, Cllr Barend (Barnie) Groenewald was unanimously…
Calitzdorp Spa and De Hoek Mountain Resort
Garden Route District Municipality (GRDM) has noted with discontent, that factually incorrect articles have been circulating in the media space…
District learners educate in Air Quality
Since 2011 the Garden Route District Municipality’s District Air Quality Unit embarked on air quality awareness relating to clean fires,…
Water security, floods and wildfires in the Garden Route remain priorities in environmental planning for the region
“Focus on the creation of a high-quality natural environment” The recent Knysna Fire Commemoration event and Garden Route Climate Change…
Garden Route schools guided to a Greener future
A pilot Primary School Recycling Programme has been launched at St. Paul’s Primary School in George today, 10 June 2019,…
Garden Route District Municipality launches the “World No Tobacco Day Campaign”
Councillors, management and staff of the Garden Route District Municipality (GRDM), in collaboration with other stakeholders, on Friday 31 May…
Destruction of ecological infrastructure worsens the impact of floods
“Failure of ecological infrastructure in KwaZulu-Natal worsens the impact of recent floods, and the Garden Route must learn from the…
Garden Route District Municipality Roads Department makes history
“The Garden Route District Municipality (GRDM) has the biggest Roads function in the Western Cape”. This was confirmed by GRDM…
Are we better prepared to deal with fire disasters?
“Blessed with an abundance of natural beauty, the Garden Route can be a deadly deceiving place, as the recent wildfire…