Milestones Achieved2011 - 2016

Ikwezi

Local Municipality

Camdeboo

 Local Municipality

Ndlambe

 Local Municipality

Koukamma

 Local Municipality

Sundays River Valley

 Local Municipality

Blue Crane

 Local Municipality

IndexBackground.................................................................................................................................................................................. 1

Mayors foreword........................................................................................................................................................................... 2

New sports facilities for Makana Local Municipality...................................................................................................................... 3

Installation of high-mast lights and upgrading of the substation in Ikwezi Local Municipality....................................................... 4

Connect with Cacadu Programme in the Sarah Baartman District............................................................................................... 5

Eradication of bucket systems in informal settlements in Sundays River Valley Local Municipality............................................. 6

Wind-farm renewable-energy project in the Makana Local Municipality....................................................................................... 7

New fire station built in Koukamma Local Municipality................................................................................................................. 8

New public parks for Ndlambe residents...................................................................................................................................... 9

Waste Water Treatment Works (WWTW) project in Camdeboo Local Municipality .................................................................... 10

Sarah Baartman District Municipality to build an intercity bus terminus in Graaff-Reinet.............................................. 11

Standardization of Fire Hydrants across the district..................................................................................................................... 12

Agricultural Mentorship Programme of the Sarah Baartman District Municipality ....................................................................... 13

Official launch of paved roads in Koukamma Local Municipality ................................................................................................. 14

Sarah Baartman District Municipality achieves second consecutive clean audit.......................................................................... 15

‘One household, one hectare’ programme launched in Ndlambe................................................................................................. 16

Sarah Baartman District Municipality renowned as the 2nd best ANC run municipality in South Africa....................................... 17

Kouga Local Municipality RDP houses connected to the waterborne sewerage system.............................................................. 18

Erasmuskloof water supply project of the Baviaans Local Municipality......................................................................................... 19

Sarah Baartman District Municipality area

Background

The Sarah Baartman District Municipality is situated in the western portion of the Eastern Cape Province. Although it completely

surrounds Nelson Mandela Bay, the two areas are independent entities serving different communities.

A district municipality, as opposed to metropolitan and local municipalities, provides support to local municipalities within its area that are

too small, poor or rural to provide all the services required by their communities.

The Sarah Baartman District Municipality capacitates 9 local municipalities, namely Kou-Kamma, Baviaans, Kouga, Ikwezi, Camdeboo,

Blue Crane Route, Sundays River Valley, Ndlambe and Makana. It shares the responsibility of providing basic services like electricity,

water and refuse removal with the Local Municipalities.

The head office of the Sarah Baartman District Municipality is located in Govan Mbeki Avenue, Port Elizabeth.

The municipality has three departments, namely Finance and Corporate Services, Infrastructure Services and Economic Development

Services. A significant amount of time and resources are spent on development, creating projects to grow skills, employment and initiate

sustainable economic development as well as elevating the quality of life in the district.

The district covers approximately 58 242 square kilometres, while the people living in the Sarah Baartman District speak isiXhosa (49%),

Afrikaans (45%) and English (6%) as their home language. The estimated population size is 451 000.

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Mayors foreword Khunjuzwa Eunice Kekana

A democracy by definition is government through elected representatives. It is a form of society which favours

equal rights, freedom of speech and a fair trial that tolerates the views of minorities. In that regard, the elected

government is productively responsible for shaping society in a sustainable manner that benefits all that live in it.

As part of making our contribution towards a free democratic society, we’ve made great strides as the Sarah Baartman

District Municipality (SBDM) in assisting our local municipalities to strive towards the eradication of the triple challenges of

poverty, unemployment and inequality in a sustainable manner.

As the current five-year term of office for the political leadership of the SBDM draws to a close, it is critical that we review achievements, highlights

and improvements brought about in the lives of stakeholders in this District. Speaking of which, SBDM has become a model of clean administration

after achieving its second consecutive clean audit, while also assisting local municipalities to improve audit outcomes. As a result, 5 of the 9 local

municipalities within the District achieved unqualified audit reports in the 2014/2015 financial year.

These achievements, and others, led to the District Municipality receiving an award in January 2016 for being the second best ANC run

municipality in the country and the best run in the Eastern Cape Province.

I urge you to continue reading for an overview of other achievements and believe that you will continue supporting the government that puts

people first.

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New sports facilities for Makana Local Municipality

The Makana Local Municipality has become the new home of modern sporting facilities. Folly’s Ground inFingo village, Grahamstown has been refurbished, whilst three new sporting grounds in Extension 5 havealso been built from scratch.

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Installation of high-mast lights and upgrading ofthe substation 

Ikwezi Local Municipality completed the installation of high-mast lights and upgraded the substation – these areprojects aimed at ensuring that even strong winds do not plunge the area into darkness in the near future.

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Connect with Cacadu Programme in the SarahBaartman District 

The ‘Connect with Cacadu’ programme was initiated by the erstwhile Cacadu District Municipality due to the lack of available IT

services, education and skills acquisition opportunities in the district. The programme was installed in 32 of 49 libraries in the

District, while approximately 30 000 people have registered as users of the system.

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Eradication of bucket systems in informal settlements

The Sundays River Valley Municipality has taken great strides in eradicating the bucket system in ruralhouseholds in Kirkwood.

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Wind-Farm renewable-energy project in the MakanaLocal Municipality

This groundbreaking renewable-energy project with 12 turbines, has been constructed in the Waainekarea on Highlands Road in Grahamstown, in the Makana Local Municipality.

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New fire station built in Koukamma Local Municipality

Sarah Baartman District Municipality is building a new fire station in Koukamma worth R5,75million. The intention is to hand it over in the latter half of 2016.

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New public parks for Ndlambe residents

The much-anticipated public parks in Ekuphumleni Township, in Kenton-on-Sea, and in Marselle, in theNdlambe Local Municipality, were officially opened to local residents on the 17th of April 2013 by Mayor,Sipho Tandani.

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Waste Water Treatment Works (WWTW)project in Camdeboo Local Municipality

The WWTW project is one of the flagship projects of the Sarah Baartman District Municipality. The project came about as a

result of the erstwhile Cacadu District Municipality assisting the Camdeboo Local Municpality to replace the existing pit

latrines with a waterborne sanitation system in the town of Nieu-Bethesda. The project was completed in July 2014.

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Sarah Baartman District Municipality building anintercity bus terminus in Graaff-Reinet

As a way to boost to socio-economic activities in the Camdeboo Local Municipality, the Sarah BaartmanDistrict Municipality is in the process of constructing a modern intercity bus terminal, taxi rank andbusiness market in Graaff-Reinet.

Standardization of Fire Hydrants across the district

12The Sarah Baartman District Municipality has taken great strides in the standardization of fire hydrantsby replacing underground fire hydrants on sidewalks and pavements with pillar type fire hydrants in themajority of local municipalities in the district.

Agricultural Mentorship Programme of the SarahBaartman District Municipality 

13Benefitting from the successful agricultural mentorship programme of the Sarah Baartman District Municipality is theLamoney Family Trust in Ndlambe. The objective of the programme is to establish a system that will allow forstructured, long-term skills transfer from successful commercial farmers to emerging farmers in order to enable themto convert their farms into sustainable businesses.

Community members of ward 6 in the Koukamma Local Municipality had the pleasure of officially launchingthe newly paved roads in Blikkiesdorp. 14

Official launch of paved roads in Koukamma LocalMunicipality

15The Sarah Baartman District Municipality, in December 2015, achieved its secondconsecutive clean audit, making it a model of clean administration in the Eastern Cape.

Sarah Baartman District Municipality achieves secondconsecutive clean audit

‘One household, One hectare’ programme launched inNdlambe 

16Two patches of land near Kenton-on-Sea in the Ndlamble Local Municipality, with a combined area of 14hectares, were officially handed over by the Minister of Rural Development and Land Reform, Gugile Nkwinti, tothe local community as part of International Poverty Eradication Day at the end of October 2015.

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Sarah Baartman District Municipality renowned as the2nd best ANC run municipality in South Africa

The Sarah Baartman District Municipality was recognized as the best African National Congress-run DistrictMunicipality in the Eastern Cape Province and as the second best ANC-run District Municipality in thecountry, after Steve Tshwete District Municipality.

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Kouga Local Municipality RDP houses connected tothe waterborne sewerage system

The recurring sewer nightmare of 87 households at Thornhill, in the Kouga Local Municipality, has beenlaid to rest. The local municipality has connected their RDP houses to the waterborne sewerage systemat a cost of R3,2 million.

The Erasmuskloof project of the augmentation of current bulk water supply to Steytlerville, by the BaviaansLocal Municipality, increases the capacity of the water supply and provides a water treatment works for thetown of Steytlerville. The project is worth over R84 million and was completed in 2015.

Erasmuskloof water supply project of theBaviaans Local Municipality

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