KNYSNA NEWS - Knysna Municipality received another award at the prestigious annual Govan Mbeki Awards on Friday 31 August in Cape Town.

These awards honour those who performed best in the Integrated Human Settlements sector of local government and further aim to promote excellence, best practices and instil healthy competition among all departments of human settlements across all provinces and municipalities nationwide.

Knysna mayor Mark Willemse said they are delighted to once again receive this recognition. 

“This is the seventh time that the Knysna Municipality receives this prestigious award since the launch of the Govan Mbeki Human Settlements Awards in 2008.”

The municipality was announced as second runner-up in the category Best Upgrading of Informal Settlements Programme, for its Witlokasie Project.

During the June 2017 fires, sections of White Location were destroyed. The Witlokasie Project was initiated immediately after the fires, and the upgrade work included installation of street lighting and electrical reticulation to allow for household electricity supply, connection of sewerage systems to existing municipal infrastructure and construction of retaining walls and gabions to prevent possible soil slip due to the steep terrain.

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