Economic Growth Sectors

Economic Growth: Aims and Objectives

Hessequa has set specific targets for economic growth, unemployment and reducing poverty. Sectoral responsibility has been calculated for job creation and GGP growth supported by specific projects in the small, medium and large arena. A full project portfolio is available on request for interested parties and potential investors.   The economic growth initiative will be driven through a...
Hessqua Socio-Economic Profile 2009

Introduction The former Langeberg Municipality has been renamed Hessequa, meaning “people of the trees”; the name originally given by the indigenous Khoi-San people of the region. Hessequa comprises the towns of Riversdale, Albertinia, Gouritsmond, Heidelberg, Stilbaai, Jongensfontein, Melkhoutfontein, Witsand and Slangrivier. Geography and Climate GPS position: -34.090511...
Tourism

Hessequa Tourism – Local Tourism Organisation Hessequa Tourism under the management of Andras Kiss, represents a historic and dynamic shift away from the typical LTO in that the activities of this institution include both tourism development and marketing initiatives. Hessequa Tourism has laid the foundation stones for this centralised institution, with its central offices, right on the N2...
Agri-Tourism

STILBAAI: KASSELSHOOP HOMEMADE TRADITIONAL CHEESE: Kasselhoop’s traditional cheese is produced on the Kasselman family farm. The factory produces about six tons of cheese for packaging and distribution to retail outlets in the Western, Eastern, Southern Cape and Johannesburg. Staff are all locals and receive on-the-job training. In 2008 their cheese-maker was sent to France for training in...

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