The Oudtshoorn Municipal Council will today, 15 May 2012 announce the service delivery action plan for the community of Rosevalley in Ward 6 in an information session that will start at 13:00 in an open space that was used for the recent Freedom Day Celebrations.

The announcement will cover the following areas:

Sanitation
Clean drinking water
Electricity
Housing
Refuse removal
Upgrading of storm water system
State of readiness of the municipality during disaster and floods

Your presence will be highly appreciated.

The Oudtshoorn Municipal Council handed over four completed housing units of the 48 infill sites housing projects that is currently underway to beneficiaries near Toekomsrus, on 19 April 2012.

This construction of the 48 housing units which commenced in February this year, is a continuation of the 129 housing units that have already been handed over to beneficiaries last year and early this year. Among the first four receipients were a 97-year-old man and a physically challenged person.

The houses were handed over by the Speaker of the Oudtshoorn Municipal Council, cllr. John Stoffels.

The Minister of Environmental Affairs Ms. Edna Molewa will address the community of the Greater Oudtshoorn at a Freedom Day celebration event organised by the Oudtshoorn Municipality and other stakeholders on Friday, 27 April 2012 at 10:00. The Executive Mayor of the Greater Oudtshoorn will welcome attendees in this event.

The celebrations, themed “Working Together to Build Unity and Prosperity for All”, will be held at the recently established informal settlement formerly known as Riemvasmaak now known as Rosevalley. Freedom Day is an annual celebration of South Africa's first non-racial democratic elections that took place on 27 April 1994. It is a day that represents peace, unity, and the restoration of human dignity of all South Africans. In the spirit of building a South Africa that belongs to all.

Freedom Day creates awareness that freedom and human rights are for all human beings, regardless of "race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status". This day reaffirms our freedom and ensures that the violation of such rights never occurs again. The Oudtshoorn Municipality appeals to the entire community of the Greater Oudtshoorn to join in observing, highlighting and celebrating National Freedom day.