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Kouga Municipality’s lifeguards kept their heads above water this festive season – December 15 to January 1 – as they responded to various incidents at beaches across the region.

On January 5, NSRI Jeffreys Bay duty crew were activated following a request for urgent assistance from a 62-year-old man and a friend, reporting that he had been bitten by a ragged-tooth shark he had caught while fishing at Papiesfontein,…

Kouga Municipality is in the process of upgrading the vandalised waste water treatment works (WWTW) in KwaNomzamo, Humansdorp, at a cost of nearly R42.36 million.

The process of removing pollutants from the fishing vessel that ran aground in St Francis Bay has begun this morning, January 10.

A man tragically drowned at the Seekoei River Lagoon at Paradise Beach in Jeffreys Bay on January 6, while two others were successfully rescued.

With help from various role players, the National Sea Rescue Institute in Kouga were able to rescue 24 crew members of a fishing vessel which ran aground at Shark Point in St Francis Bay on January 6.

Two people have lost their lives while two others sustained severe injuries, after two vehicles collided head-on earlier today, January 8, on the N2 road near Humansdorp in the direction of Plettenberg Bay.

The annual USN JBay Touchies which has been referred to as the “best Touchies Tournament in South Africa” will see 32 teams from all over the country battle it out on the Jeffreys Bay Main Beach on December 26 from…

Dino Van Rensburg from Kariega Weightlifting, Curvon Jacobs from Kouga Weightlifting and George Piet from Gqeberha Weightlifting recently competed at the South African Weightlifting masters championship in Port Shepstone in KwaZulu-Natal.

In the hope that they can encourage underprivileged children to return to school, the principals and teachers of Early Childhood Development (ECD) Centres in Humansdorp recently visited the Humansdorp regional waste site, where many children spend th