As the days become longer and the temperatures rise, our cats’ hormones start to change in preparation for mating season. During spring, our feline friends and unneutered pet cats and strays begin searching for partners to produce the next generation. KAWS advises...
An unusual hack site for us in Betty’s Bay for our September Hack: The Harold Porter Gardens. The management there have asked us, via the Friends of the Harold Porter National Botanical Gardens’ (FHPG), if we would clear a large number of dead trees and wood from one...
HCCC provides welfare services to the Hangklip community, i.e. residents of Betty’s Bay, Pringle Bay and Rooi Els. During the month of August we distributed 50 food parcels and prepared 549 meals! Some of our members have expressed interest in playing Canasta and the...
In last months BBC article on the Throwaway Society, we included a leaflet on the large variety of items that that the Butterfly Effect re-purpose and re-use. As there was no Afrikaans version of that leaflet the Butterfly Effect has kindly produced a one page poster...
The BBC4thSaturday event, held on the 24 August in the Stony Point Eco Venue, was a tribute to the late Sara Starke on the anniversary of her passing. Sara was a natural pioneer “oystercatcher monitor” in Betty’s Bay and a super example of how “one person CAN make a...
BERG ADDER Bitis atropos This lovely small snake, measuring only 14cm, was recently discovered on my patio at Betty's Bay (figure 1). It was readily misidentified (by me) as a puffadder, but upon further examination and with the assistance of informed snake-loving...
After moving to Betty's Bay in March last year and meeting so many of our awesome community members, I saw the need to create a place not only for local vendors to sell their amazing products but also to create a safe space where people can just come to relax and meet...
Environmental Impact Assessments (EIAs) are conducted on ALL new builds where the property is zoned Undetermined/Agricultural and where the size of the building + driveway + outbuildings is 300m2 or more. Water Usage Licence Assessment (WULA) is part of the process...
Vehicles: 1.1. The Grader used for scraping roads is broken. The cost to get it fixed is approximately R135 000. 1.2. The two vehicles used for storm-water problems are in working order. 1.3. The three vehicles used for "gravel" are in working condition (2 X 8 cubes...
In August 2024 there were ten call-outs: nine medical cases and one motor vehicle accident involving a single vehicle with two patients, one critical. Sixty one call-outs have been responded to in the first eight months of 2024. Two new volunteers have undergone...