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…
World No-Tobacco Day 2019 – A “Silent March” to take place on 31 May 2019
Garden Route District Municipality (GRDM) in collaboration with George Municipality, Department of Health, Breede Gouritz Catchment Agency, CANSA and Cape…
Celebrating International Internal Auditors’ Month
Garden Route DM’s Internal Audit Unit’s Motto: “Teamwork divides the task and multiplies the success” What Is Internal Auditing? Internal auditing…
Water Quality Monitoring by Garden Route District Municipality
According to the National Health Act, Act 61 of 2003, drinking water quality monitoring is a function of Municipal Health…
Garden Route & Klein Karoo attends Indaba 2019
The annual Africa’s Travel Indaba took place from 2 – 4 May 2019 at the Durban Exhibition Centre in Kwazulu…
Garden Route District Municipality wins the IFFD Challenge
It was once again a glorious occasion for the Garden Route District Municipality (GRDM) Fire Fighters, when they walked away…
Chemical safety in South Africa
The safe transport, handling, use and disposal of hazardous chemicals and receptacles, are of crucial importance to the general health…
GRDM has a new banking partner
Please note that Garden Route District Municipality will have two accounts, one for its main transactions, the other for Roads…
A first SODA for the Garden Route
On 12 April 2019, the Garden Route District Municipality’s (GRDM) Executive Mayor, Councillor Memory Booysen, took an unprecedented step for…