Good Neighbours Get Together in Kom

Kom street parties, the brainchild of the Social Fabric subcommittee, take place when various street groups in Kommetjie gather for shared food and company to promote greater social interaction amongst residents. Here are some pics from gatherings in February.

We encourage you to join your local Whatsapp Street Group at the Snapscan below.

“Next to individual homes, streets are the smallest sub units in our community,” explains Jenny Tanesse.  “We learn of people’s needs in these units, such as longterm or temporary illness.  New residents are welcomed and learn about basic customs such as ‘bin days’ and protocol to avoid attracting baboons into the area.”

Each street has a captain, who keeps track of people’s email addresses and distributes notifications received from Jenny. The concept was first used during the COVID era, when the CAN group assisted around 150 families in our community.

The Social Fabric group will continue to encourage street parties as an annual tradition, but residents are welcome to organise their own get togethers as well.

Scan the code below to join your street group!

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If you would like to assist in these and the many other projects undertaken by the KRRA volunteers, please consider a monthly or one-off EFT payment at details below, or via Snapscan here 

Include your name and the code for the volunteer KRRA work you wish to support from here

General 1, Parks and Open Spaces 2, Alien clearing 3, Beach Cleanup 4, Waterways Maintenance 5, Indigenous Planting 6, Walkways Maintenance 7, Traffic & Roads 8, Social Fabric 9, Development & Infrastructure 10, Media & Communications 11, Local Enterprise 12, Resilience 13 

KRRA

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Why?

The KRRA has existed for eight decades and is run by volunteers who work on issues from spatial planning, road safety, social fabric, resilience (disaster mitigation), and environmental integrity such as alien clearing, indigenous planting, beach cleanups, and the restoration of our rivers and wetlands. We get walkways fixed and look at better access. We monitor building and development, and put together alerts and updates via newsletter and social media. We deal with issues that benefit you.We would ask for some reciprocation financially (as well as ideas or volunteers) to enable the above work, which sometimes includes serious issues with legal fees attached. If every Kommetjie household donated just R50 a month (less than R2 per day), the KRRA would have a healthy enough budget to tackle almost anything thrown our way.

Contact Patrick Dowling on 084 966-1249 for additional information.

We follow legal procedure with monthly agendas and an AGM where a treasurer’s report is presented and we report back to the community.

We encourage Kom residents to attend the next AGM. You will be notified via email, social media and a banner as you enter Kom. 

Be the difference.