Excellent quality and similar citrus volumes to 2020 expected from drought-stricken Gamtoos
In the Gamtoos Valley they are harvesting lemons, clementines, Novas and navels. Significant volumes will start coming in next week and in two weeks they ll be running at full capacity.
The Kouga Dam (
right) is 4.3% full, and a mere 0.05% of its water is released every day to all of its water users. About half of the farmers in the area have always had access to the low quality water from the Gamtoos River, which is what has pulled many of them through years of drought, but in places the river has run dry and the quality has become almost unusable.
Farmers want to pump ‘empty’ Kouga Dam But irrigation board pours cold water on ambitious plan PREMIUM By Riaan Marais - 07 April 2021
Farmers downstream from the Kouga Dam believe water lying under the dam’s 3% “empty” mark can be pumped into the channels that feed irrigation systems along the Gamtoos River Valley.
However, the Gamtoos Irrigation Board (GIB) said it was not that simple because a number of factors needed to be considered, while the dam now stands just above 5% capacity.
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David Stuurman, who has just had an airport named after him, was one of the first leaders of resistance to colonial expansion in South Africa, yet few people in the country know much about him, as the BBC s Mohammed Allie reports.
To the colonial establishment of the late 18th and early 19th Centuries, David Stuurman was a criminal and a threat, but to the Khoi and Xhosa people (or amaXhosa) he achieved hero status for his brave and continued resistance to forced removals and subjugation.
Stuurman also has the distinction of being the only person to have twice escaped from Robben Island - later known as one of the places where Nelson Mandela was incarcerated - off the coast of Cape Town.
By Riaan Marais - 16 March 2021
FATAL CRASH: The accident scene on the N2 near the Gamtoos River bridge, where a driver of a VW Polo was killed on Tuesday Image: SUPPLIED
A man driving a Volkswagen Polo died in a horrific head-on collision with a truck on the N2 near Gamtoos on Tuesday.
The accident happened at about 8am, on the downhill heading towards the Gamtoos River bridge.
Police spokesperson Sergeant Majola Nkohli said the Polo’s driver died on impact, while the truck driver suffered minor injuries.
A case of culpable homicide was being investigated.
The front half of the Polo was completely destroyed.
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