Municipal election, 2011: DA announces its candidate for Ward 8

David Ernest Aldendorff was born in Johannesburg on the 12 March 1938. He matriculated at Marist Brothers College and subsequently obtained a BA degree at Rhodes University.

His first wife was killed in a car accident in 1993. He then married the charming Mary Webster in 1996 in Los Angeles, USA. Mary has three children living in Los Angeles.

David has two children. Michael and his family live in Dubai, and Cheryl and her family live in Pretoria. Michael has twins, a daughter and son, while Cheryl has a son.

After working for 23 years as Manager, Purchasing Department of the SA Co-op Citrus Exchange, he retired at the end of 1996.

When they moved to Jeffreys Bay at the end of June 2001, David was appalled by local media reports of mismanagement, wasted and fruitless expenditure, and corruption by municipal officials. He promptly decided to become involved in local politics and joined the Democratic Alliance in 2005.

His worth was soon recognised and he became secretary of the Ward 3 management committee in 2006. In 2010 he was elected chairman of the new Ward 8 management committee.

It came as no surprise that he was persuaded by members of his committee to stand as aspirant candidate for Ward 8 after the unfortunate death of Gerrie Botes.

During the past 14 months, David and his committee have visited some 1500 houses in Ward 8 to explain the results of the demarcation of ward boundaries and to encourage residents to re-register, and in some cases to register, for the upcoming municipal election. Their efforts bore fruit as evidenced by a large turnout on registration day.

David says, “We are confident of a record poll for the DA on election day. We plan to maintain close contact with the residents in our ward and will do our best to solve any problems they may have.”

Barry Vosloo
21 March 2011

Change to ward number and voting station

The latest delimination process has resulted in the number of wards in the Kouga Municipality being increased from 10 to 15 for the 2011 municipal elections.

The new Ward 8 boundaries are Petunia/Myrtle Street in the south and the whole of Wavecrest on the upper side (in the direction of the Fountains Mall) of Dr. A D Keet Street. Residents who live in this area will have to re-register for the municipal elections next year.

The Ward 8 voting station will be at Dutch Reformed Church Complex, which is identified as voting district 10140062. This is the number of the bar coded sticker that should appear on page 2 of your identity document.

Independent Electoral Commission officials will be conducting house-to-house calls on the 3, 4 & 5 December 2010 to re-register voters. However, to ensure that you are re-registered, you are advised to go to the municipal building on the corner of Maple and Thunder Tree Street (near the old cemetery). Take your identity document along with you.

You may also visit the Independent Electoral Commission office at the Country Club in Humansdorp between 08h00 and 16h00 during the week. Take your identity document along with you.

Should you experience any problems, please contact the Ward 8 Democratic Alliance Chairman at 042 296 1721 or Nico Botha at 042 296 2215.

Wyksnommer en stempunt verander

Weens die nuwe afbakening met die oog op die munisipale verkiesing in 2011, sal die Kouga-munisipaliteit voortaan uit 15 wyke in plaas van 10 bestaan.

Inwoners wat in Wavecrest aan die bokant van Dr. A D Keetstraat (in die rigting van die Fountains-winkelsentrum) woonagtig is, sal voortaan in Wyk 8 in plaas van Wyk 3 val.

Die stempunt vir Wyk 8 is die NG Kerkkompleks en die nommer daarvan is 10140062. Hierdie nommer moet op die registrasie-plakkertjie op bladsy 2 van u identiteitsdokument verskyn.

Om u te help om te herregistreer, sal die Onafhanklike Verkiesingskommissie op 3, 4 en 5 Desember 2010 beamptes van huis tot huis stuur om inwoners tuis te registreer. Om egter te verseker dat u wél geregistreer word, word u aangeraai om die munisipale gebou langs die ou kerkhof in Wavecrest op die bogemelde datums te besoek. Dit is geleë op die hoek van Maple- en Thunder Tree-straat. Neem u identiteitsboekie saam.

Andersyds kan u die Onafhanklike Verkiesingskommissie-kantoor op Humansdorp besoek. Dié kantoor is by die buiteklub geleë en is op weeksdae tussen 08:00 en 16:00 oop. Onthou om u identiteitsboekie saam te neem.

Tree asseblief met die Demokratiese Alliansie-takvoorsitter van Wyk 8 by tel. 042 296 1721 in verbinding as u probleme ondervind. U kan ook vir Nico Botha skakel. Sy telefoonnommer is 042 296 2215.

Minutes of the Ward 8 Democratic Alliance meeting - 27 July 2010

Welcome
The Chairman welcomed V Stanley as a new committee member and F Louw opened the meeting with a prayer.


Present
N. Botha, D. Aldendorff, F. Louw, T. Landman, D. Moyles, V. Stanley,
and J. Schamrel

Apologies
G. Botes


Minutes of the previous meeting
The minutes of the meeting held on 29 June 2010 was taken as READ. Proposed T Landman and seconded F Louw.


Matters arising from the minutes
F Louw requested additional membership cards for those members who had paid their membership and had not received cards.

It was NOTED that a date for the next municipal elections had not been determined.


Preparations for the 2011 elections
The Chairman reported there was approximately 8 months left until the municipal elections and in terms of the Planning Document it was necessary to set specific targets for Ward 8


Target 1
Membership recruitment to continue. There are currently 308 DA members in Ward 8 and the present target of 400 members would be achieved by end August. The new target of 500 by end November was achievable.


Target 2
All blocks should try to organize at least one house meeting a month.

Target 3To pay visits to all houses in Blocks 1, 2, 3, 5, and 6 would be completed by end August and that Blocks 4, 7, 8, 9, and 10 completed by end November.


Target 4
All houses identified for registration/ re-registration would be visited during the period January/February 2011 as soon as the IEC had confirmed the dates during which registration would take place and the target would be 1500 new voters for Ward 8.


Target 5
The target for election day would be a turnout of 85% of voters.


The Chairman STATED that there were 15 members whose subscriptions were still outstanding for 2009/ 2010 and he REQESTED the committee to finalize this matter by the end of August 2010.


A date for the AGM would be agreed on shortly and members would be advised by SMS from the DA office in Port Elizabeth two weeks in advance of the meeting.


J Schamrel kindly agreed the AGM could be held at his house at  24 Dr AD Keet Road, Wavecrest (082-800-1451).


Reportback on the JB Co-ordinating Committee
Councilor N Botha circulated a copy of the Planning Document for the information of the Committee. This document reflected the performance of the Ward and was updated on a monthly basis.


An amount of R20 000 (R4 000 per Ward) would be made available by 1 November 2010.


It was NOTED that the Chairman for Ward 2 had resigned.

In order to win the Kouga municipal election the Democratic Alliance required to win 7 of the Wards and obtain sufficient votes to ensure a further 8 proportional representatives.


Any member wishing to stand as councilor in the next election should make their intentions clear and submit a CV to the Co-Ordinating Committee. The selection process was ongoing and all aspirant candidates would be screened by the electoral college.


Councillor Botha requested members of the Committee attend the Public Meeting of the Oversight Committee scheduled of 28 July 2010 at the Cultural Centre in Humansdorp. It was important that members of the public participate in the general discussions.


Next meeting
It was NOTED that the next Ward 8 Zone 6 Committee meeting would be convened on Tuesday, 31 August 2010 at 14:00.

Ward 8 Committee Meeting - 29 June 2010

Present

Dr. Nico Botha
Mr. Dave Aldendorff
Mr. Faan Louw
Mr. Theo Landman
Mrs. Denise Moyles
Dr. Barry Vosloo

Apologies

Mr. Gerrie Botes
Mr. Varge Stanley

Opening

F. Louw opened the meeting with a prayer.

Apologies

Apologies were received from G. Botes and V. Stanley. G. Botes would be advising the Chairman whether he would be available to continue working on the Ward 8 Committee.

Minutes of previous meeting

The minutes of the Progress Meeting held on 25 May was taken as READ. Proposed by T Landman and seconded by F Louw.

Matters arising from the minutes

DAtanet
A copy of the DAtanet was TABLED by B Vosloo.

B. Vosloo REPORTED that the new blogspot for the DA Jeffreys Bay Region had been developed on the internet. The address is www.da-jbayregion.blogspot.com

B. Vosloo EXPLAINED that the DAtanet had been developed with the purpose of
• being the mouthpiece of the DA in the Jeffreys Bay region;
• being a column for each ward and zone to communicate with each other;
• general DA news.

He APPEALED to the Works Committee to appoint a ‘scribe’ that would e-mail him copies of the minutes of meetings, newsletters and any information that would be of interest to Ward 8 members. His e-mail address is vosloobj@telkomsa.net

House meetings

Committee members were REQUESTED to ensure that at least one house meeting took place in each of the 4 blocks in Ward 8 during July 2010.

Membership

A list featuring the statistics of Ward 8 Block 6 was TABLED and circulated.

The Chairman reported that there were some 1268 houses in Wavecrest belonging to Ward 8, excluding Eedenglen. These had been divided into 12 Blocks of which
• 333 addresses had residents who were registered;
• 427 addresses had residents who needed to be re-registered;
• 508 addresses had residents who had not been registered.

T Landman was given responsibility for following up on this information in Block 1,
F Louw, Block 3, D Moyles Block 6, and D Aldendorff, Block 5. More volunteers were needed for the other Blocks.

It was NOTED that 228 members had been recruited to date and Ward 8 was challenged to achieve their target of 300 members by end November 2010.

The IEC would be approached to make themselves available to re-register households that were presently in Ward 3 and had to be transferred to Ward 8.

It was PROPOSED that self-addressed postcards be distributed through the Post Office and during the door-to-door visits in order to update personal details for the voters roll and help identify those residents who needed to register.

Reportback by Clr. Botha

N Botha INFORMED the meeting that the Demarcation Board has not yet finalized the voting areas.

Next meeting

It was NOTED that the next Ward 8 committee meeting would be convened at 14:00 on Tuesday, 27 July 2010, at the Jeffreys Bay Golf Club.

Closure

The meeting closed at 15:45.

Voter registration in new Ward 8 - 1 July 2010

Although the final boundary of the new Ward 8 will only be finalised in October, your Ward Committee has identified most of the voters living in Wavecrest who will need to re-register at their new voting station at the NG Church (voting district 101 400 62).

We have also established that there are still a large number of residents in Ward 8 who are not registered to vote. Over the next three months volunteers will be canvassing all these people to let them know when voter registration is take place in Jeffreys Bay.

This will require a tremendous amount of work and anyone wishing to assist should contact the Chairman, Dave Aldendorff, at 042 296 1721.

At present there are already 254 members of the Democratic Alliance in Ward 8 and for anyone wishing to join the fee is R10 per person per year.