Crime-fighting efforts across the province received a huge boost when Premier Alan Winde and the Provincial Minister of Police Oversight and Community Safety, Reagen Allen, handed drones over to various district municipalities earlier this week.
The film considers the complex interplay between the individual psyche, the social fabric, and the arid land which sustains life in the Karoo. Local Prince Albert residents tell of divergent lives: of devotion to caregiving beyond the bounds of family; of the philosopher farmer's relationship with the land; of losing parts of oneself; and of friendship whilst at the mercy of a system that is failing. Eerstewater was shot on location in the town of Prince Albert, Western Cape, South Africa. In a place where music is as much part of of the story as the harsh karoo landscape, local Prince Albert musicians provide the backdrop to the stories of: Maggie Hendricks (106), Pat Marincowitz (93), Piet Cordier (60), Jaffie (81) & Tienie (84) Pieterson, and Henry Prins (15) & Wilfred Maarman (16). Under guidance of the Depth Leadership Trust, a supplementary local crew was trained and employed for the production phase of the film. The film is based on the book: Beneath - Exploring the
The Cape Winelands District Municipality’s council has unanimously voted for the re-appointment of Henry Prins as municipal manager, the municipality announced in a statement.
An emotional celebration of those Cape Winelands District Municipality’s (CWDM) fire fighters who have lost their lives in the line of duty over the past five years was held last Thursday (28 July).