JEFFREYSBAAI is die beste dorp in die land. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Inwoners hoop die titel Dorp van die Jaar sal wys dat di\u00e9 dorp vir meer as net sy legendariese branders bekend is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Di\u00e9 dorp aan die Oos-Kaapse kus is Sondag op kykNET as die joernaalprogram Kw\u00eala<\/i> se wenner in sy kompetisie aangewys. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Die ander twee dorpe in die topdrie is Mariental in Namibi\u00eb en St. Lucia in KwaZulu-Natal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As die wenner kry Jeffreysbaai uitsendingstyd ter waarde van R1 miljoen om die dorp te bemark. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cKaapstad het die berg en ons het die branders, maar ons het goeie en warm mense wat altyd verwelkomend is. D\u00edt is wat die dorp so uniek maak,\u201d s\u00eat Horatio Hendricks, die Kouga-munisipaliteit se burgemeester.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Met die nuwe titel wil Hendricks nie net Jeffreysbaai nie, maar ook die groter Kouga-omgewing bemark. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cOns glo die nuwe titel sal help om toeriste en nuwe inwoners te lok. Nuwe inwoners kan werkgeleenthede skep en ons plaaslike ekonomie help groei.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Mariza Roux, die Kouga-sakeforum se administrateur, meen die prys vir onder meer die bemarking van die dorp sal vir \u2019n groot ekonomiese inspuiting sorg. \u201cDie Kouga-gebied sal onder die aandag van beleggers gebring word, en dit kan \u2019n verdere voordeel vir die dorp en die omgewing inhou,\u201d s\u00ea sy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cUitbundige uitroepe, liggies, papierlinte en blinkers het die dorp opgevrolik toe die nuus Sondagaand bekend gemaak is. Sjampanje is geskink en die opgewondenheid was aansteeklik.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hendricks s\u00ea die groter plan is om Kouga as \u2019n heeljaarbestemming en nie net vir vakansies nie te posisioneer. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cHier is wonderlike blouvlagstrande, goeie branders, oopwaterswembyeenkomste en goeie restaurante \u2013 alles in \u2019n baie veilige omgewing.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hy s\u00ea die titel is te danke aan \u2019n gesamentlike poging deur die inwoners en hy het almal vir hul bydrae bedank.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Deon Goosen van die Jeffreysbaai Dorp van Drome-beweging het dit beaam en ges\u00ea steun is selfs uit die buiteland ontvang. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cDie reaksie was oorweldigend positief. Daar is gate in die strate en die sypaadjies is dalk nie altyd skoon nie, maar die mense het nogtans saamgewerk om die dorp te help groei.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Binnelandse boere en ander vakansiegangers wat jaarliks na Jeffreysbaai stroom, het in die laaste week op groot skaal aan die stemmery deelgeneem. \u201cEn natuurlik het ons surfers ook gestem,\u201d s\u00ea Roux. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cDit is ook niks minder as reg nie dat erkenning gegee word aan een van die groot dryfvere agter hierdie oorwinning, naamlik die ontslape burgemeester, Elza van Lingen.\u201d Van Lingen is op 19 April aan kanker dood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cHaar wens was dat Jeffreysbaai die titel wen. Elza se deursettingsvermo\u00eb en werketiek het dikwels as aansporing gedien vir die beplanningskomitee onder leiding van Joe Ferreira, voorsitter van die Kouga-sakeforum, om nog meer te doen,\u201d s\u00ea Roux. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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