ANC Kouga Ward 14

18/12/2023

Good day ward 14 community,
Please note your ANC Ward 14 Councillor will open the office from 9am till 13h00. This is excluding Holidays & weekends.
Thank you,

07/12/2023

22/10/2023

Welcome to DA led Kouga Municipality Grave sites......

06/10/2023

Honourable Zolile Williams, on behalf of the marginalized Kouga communities, that are not are Serviced by the Kouga Municipality due to their skin color,we thank your visit together with your department leadership. You have listened to the cries of these communities for the past 2 days. You have also noticed with your officials that the Kouga Municipal Council has been running things in bridge of the Local Government Municipal Systems act & structures act, and with that the ANC Caucus will make sure that heads must roll. The Municipality has been politising service delivery that has been said by the communities you visited. People have said that the funds given to Kouga municipality by the national & provincial government don't reach our areas, the lack of upgrading of gravel roads & illegally electricity connection remains a clear indication of that.

17/09/2023

Young people of Ocean View decided to assist motorists driving by Griffiths Mxenge Street. They bought sand & cement to fix this this part of the street.......DA led Kouga municipality continues to fail our black communities

10/08/2023

Kouga Ward 14 Committee Meeting just concluded......

20/07/2023

Ward 14 Gravel Roads July 2023

13/06/2023

Your DA led Kouga Municipality has done it again blocking electricity of our poor communities without any form of communication. This time it has blocked electricity of households at informal areas who don't have water meters in their yards. On these locations there is no control of water usage in a form of meter that is checked by water meter readers of Kouga Municipality.

It is now becoming clear that the DA led Kouga Municipality is financially on ICU as continuously reported by ANC councilors during the 2023/24 Budget vote in Council. Hence this desperation to milk out money from poor community members like Ebumnyameni & Gushindoda in Ocean View. How does one suddenly have a bill of R10 000 while sharing a water tap with other 50 households. It has never happened before where communities get their electricity cut without any form of communication let alone cutting electricity of those staying at the informal areas.

ANC in ward 14 will write a formal complain to the office Kouga Speaker on this matter which the ANC in Ward 14 sees it as a "Milking out the poor" by the DA led Kouga Municipality.

Regards,
ANC Ward 14 Branch Leadership
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26/04/2023

Today the 26 April 2023 Ward 14 community had another successful Public Consultation Meeting on the IDP & Budget for the financial year of 2023/24 starting July 2023. The ANC Phambili Stokwe BEC wants to thank all the community members of ward 14 that participated on today's public consultation for the benefit of the whole community.

26/04/2023

The DA led Kouga Municipality has once again blocked the electricity of a certain community race in Jeffreys Bay. The Wavecrest, C place etc communities do receive their accounts via emails and posts for them to go pay their accounts in time. Our communities only get that via their electricity being blocked. The ANC councillors have been fighting the municipality to correct their way of doing things that is only favourable a community of a certain skin colour. DA volunteers within our communities are nowhere to be found when their DA led municipality is mistreating our communities.

16/03/2023

ANC-LED Eastern Cape Provincial Government

EXECUTIVE COUNCIL APPROVES A R50 MILLION INJECTION TO ASSIST EASTERN CAPE STUDENTS STRUGGLING TO PAY DEBT AT PROVINCIAL-BASED UNIVERSITIES: 15 MARCH 2023
The Eastern Cape Provincial Executive Council as led by Premier Lubabalo Oscar Mabuyane approved a R50 million injection for 2023 to assist Eastern Cape born students who have not received their graduation certificates because they are struggling to pay off their university debt at institutions of higher learning within the province.
This brings the fund allocated to this intervention initiative to about R130 million since its inception in 2020, with 4778 students receiving assistance.
The amount will be shared among the four universities in the province i.e. Fort Hare (R15 million), Nelson Mandela (R10 million), Rhodes (R5 million), and Walter Sisulu (R20 million); according to their financial status and enrollment figures. Close to 2500 students are expected to get support in 2023 through this funding.
The funds will prioritize students who completed their studies between 2020 and 2022 but cannot graduate and receive their certificates due to historic debt. Priority fields of study include Agriculture, Science, Technology, ICT, Engineering, and the funds will target at least 55% female students.
These funds are administered directly by universities. Government has signed an MoU with the universities as part of accountability and monitoring mechanisms, committing the institutions to ensure students funded are from across the province and studied within the province. The institutions will also be expected to submit a report to the Provincial Government on all students assisted and their specific circumstances.
“The challenge of the “missing middle” students, those who do not qualify for NSFAS, but struggle to afford higher education fees is real. While the national government is working on strategies to comprehensively deal with the challenge, it is critical for us to support these students in the meantime. Some need to pay their debt so they can graduate and enter the job market,” said Premier Mabuyane.
"Young people must be given access to higher education to improve their skills level and provide them greater access to opportunities to break the cycle of poverty in the province. This will propel us towards building the Eastern Cape we want." To this end, the Provincial Government also awards bursaries, scholarships, internships and learnerships to young people.
Universities in the province are reportedly owed more than R1 billion in student debt and the provincial government is making these funds available as part of relief efforts. “We acknowledge that there is still a massive need to extend support to students who must graduate, specifically at our to Historically Disadvantaged Institutions,” said Mabuyane.
The Premier calls on business, NGOs, and individuals to also assist these students and contribute towards ensuring the doors of learning are opened to all students in the province.
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