About us

Cape Agulhas Municipality can be regarded as the southernmost local municipality in Africa. Its coastline is surrounded by the Atlantic and Indian oceans which meet at the most southern town in Africa, named L’Agulhas. Cape Agulhas Municipality borders the municipalities of Swellendam, Theewaterskloof and Overstrand. Both the administration headquarters of CAM and the ODM is situated in Bredasdorp.

Our beautiful area can be reached from the City of Cape Town in the West via the N2 national road over the Sir Lowry’s and Houw Hoek Passes and connecting with the R316 route from Caledon to Bredasdorp. The area can also be reached from the N2 on the eastern side via Swellendam connecting with the R319 route to Bredasdorp.

Our Mission
To render excellent services through good governance, public ownership and partnership in order to create a safer environment that will promote socio-economic growth and ensure future financial sustainability in a prosperous southernmost community.

VALUES

• Fairness
• Integrity
• Accountability and responsibility
• Transparency
• Innovativeness
• Responsiveness
• Empathy

The Bredasdorp Thusong centre was officially opened on 14 March 2014. The centre provides easy access to equitable and effective government information and provides a variety of social services to the Cape Agulhas community. All the office spaces at the Thusong centre are occupied by service providers representing the National, Provincial and Local Governments as well as the NGO sector.

The following service providers are based at the Thusong centre:

• Cape Agulhas Municipality – Human Development Department (028) 425 5560

• Cape Agulhas Municipality – Municipal Pay point (028) 425 5560

• SASSA – South African Social Security Agency (028) 425 5560

• DHA – Department of Home Affairs (028) 425 1165

• GCIS – Government Communication and Information Systems, portiaml@gcis.gov.za,

• Cape Access – Provides Information and free Internet services to the community (028) 424 1231

• PCDW – Provincial Community Development Workers (028) 425 5560

Section 53 of the Disaster Management Act (Act 57 of 2002) stipulates that: “Each municipality must, within the applicable municipal disaster management framework prepare a disaster management plan for its area according to the circumstances prevailing in the area” Disaster Management is a continuous integrated and multi-sectored and disciplinary process of planning and implementation of measures aimed at disaster prevention, mitigation, preparedness, response, recovery and rehabilitation.

Cape Agulhas Municipality is in process of developing a revised Disaster Management Plan which serves as a situational analysis of operating arrangements within the area, and which will provide officials and other role players in Disaster Management as well as communities to effectively prevent disasters from occurring and to minimize the impact of hazards which cannot be avoided.

The Overberg District Municipality are primarily responsible for the coordination and management of local disasters that occur in the Cape Agulhas area and will liaise with the Local Municipality in identifying and responding to disaster risks in the Municipality and the drawing up of the contingency and prevention plans to address risks. Currently all fires in our Municipal area are dealt with by the Overberg District Municipality. All other disaster related functions are the responsibility of the Local Municipality.