Hessequa Municipality Information

As a caring municipality, we continuously strive to deliver quality service to our residents and visitors. Service delivery of a high standard is the cornerstone of a successful municipality and can only be achieved by highly motivated employees who take responsibility for their own tasks, as well as a collective responsibility for all local government functions. Our achievements include 6 consecutive clean audit reports (2013/2014; 2014/2015; 2015/2016; 2016/2017; 2017/2018; 2018/2019), 1st municipality in South Africa to have all six beaches feature in the Blue Flag Programme, Greenest Municipality in the Western Cape 2015 and 2016, as well as 3rd Greenest Municipality in South Africa in 2016. The name Hessequa, meaning “people of the trees”, refers to the tribe of Khoikhoi people that used to live in the region. Hessequa is gently curving the edge of the continent just east of the southern-most tip of Africa. The municipality nestles at the foot of the Langeberg Mountains with boundaries stretching along the southern Cape coast from the Breede River to Gouritsmond. A region rich in natural beauty with rolling hills of pristine limestone and mountain fynbos, dune thicket and Renosterveld and to the north surrounded with rugged mountains and indigenous forests. Pristine beaches stretch the entire length of her coastline. Ecological assets include four estuaries, a word heritage forest site, several nature reserves which guard a number of rare and endangered floral species and even a very special little frog. Hessequa Municipality is situated in the Southern Cape Coast on the Garden Route; about 320km’s from Cape Town on the N2 and is situated in the Garden Route District Municipality. At present, the municipal area includes the surrounding towns of Riversdale, Heidelberg, Albertinia, Gouritsmond, Slangrivier, Stilbaai and Witsand.