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Fire Protection Associations are formed and governed under the National Veldfire Act (Act 101 of 1998) as voluntary associations of Landowners who wish to cooperate for the purpose of predicting, preventing, managing and extinguishing veldfires.

OUR AIMS & OBJECTIVES

The Winelands FPA is not a firefighting organisation. Fire suppression operations are conducted according to the Fire Brigade Services Act and remain the responsibility of the Cape Winelands District Municipality.

Aims:

  • Contribute to community development by reducing injuries, losses to lives, property and the environment due to wildfires
  • Promote Integrated Fire Management together with the useful role of wildfires
  • Protect mountain catchment areas to protect future fresh water supplies
  • Protect the high levels of biodiversity, endemism and red data species of the Cape Floristic Region

 

Objectives:

  • Reduce the incidence and spread of wildfires
  • Promote cooperation and coordination between all role players in wildfires
  • Deploy a veldfire management strategy throughout the FPA area
  • Develop and implement IFMPs for the Fire Management Units
  • Empower landowners in IFM
  • Awareness and compliance of landowners to the NVFFA
  • Compliance of members to the agreed FPA rules
  • Increase in FPA members
  • Awareness to the general public on wildfires
  • Identify and reduce the risks within high fire risk areas
  • Create MOUs and working agreements with neighbouring Fire Brigade Services and FPAs
  • Ensure an adequate wildfire reporting system is in place for all reporting requirements

WHAT WE DO

  • Creating a fire management plan for the region
  • Identifying high risk areas and assisting with mitigation of these risks
  • Identifying strategic fire breaks and assisting with the creation of them
  • Serve as the link between landowners and the Fire Brigade Services for wildfires and prescribed burns
  • Facilitating the issuing of burn permits in the Cape Winelands District Municipality
  • Facilitate training to members and key role players
  • Advise members on PPE and equipment and refer them to suitable retailers
  • Facilitate cooperation and coordination between landowners with regards to IFM
  • Setting up FMUs with good leadership, and support and empower this leadership in IFM practices
  • Facilitating the setting up of sufficient communication systems with and between members
  • Assist Cape Winelands DM and landowners with Incident Command at fires as required
  • Organisation/planning of professional coordinated incident response to fires
  • Assist with the coordination of invasive alien plant clearing for best mitigation in high fire risk areas
  • Assist in the awareness of the public about wildfires

 

THE WINELANDS FPA DOES NOT

  • Provide a firefighting service although assistance at larger fires can be provided.
  • Fulfill the role of the fire brigade services.
  • Receive any income from the collection of rates levied by municipalities neither does it pay over any funds towards municipalities.
  • Get involved in structural firefighting or related issues.
  • Enforce membership to the organisation. Membership is voluntary other than for state organisations which own land or manage land for which membership is compulsory.

DISCLAIMER

The Winelands FPA is not a firefighting organisation. Fire suppression operations are conducted according to the Fire Brigade Services Act and remain the responsibility of the Cape Winelands District Municipality.

FIRE DANGER INDEX (FDI)

02 DECEMBER 2024

  • Stellenbosch 49 49
  • Paarl 51 51
  • Ceres 59 59
  • Worcester 63 63
  • Robertson 64 64

03 DECEMBER 2024

  • Stellenbosch 48 48
  • Paarl 50 50
  • Ceres 45 45
  • Worcester 59 59
  • Robertson 66 66

04 DECEMBER 2024

  • Stellenbosch 56 56
  • Paarl 56 56
  • Ceres 57 57
  • Worcester 67 67
  • Robertson 75 75

05 DECEMBER 2024

  • Stellenbosch 52 52
  • Paarl 57 57
  • Ceres 50 50
  • Worcester 58 58
  • Robertson 67 67

Disclaimer: Neither WFPA nor its partners can be held liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, consequential, special or exemplary damages arising out of or in connection with the use of the FDI information provided. The WFPA does not and cannot guarantee the accuracy of the information provided. It remains the responsibility of the landowner to take weather status into account, on the specific day, when doing a controlled burn or fighting a fire. If you have any difficulties in obtaining the FDI please contact us.

FIRE MANAGEMENT UNITS (FMU’S)

FMUs

Please select a region/ward on the image map to see the relevant leader's contact information.

FMUs
Breede Valley Ceres Kouebokkeveld Ceres Witzenberg Drakenstein Langeberg Stellenbosch Tulbagh Wolseley Warm & Kouebokkeveld LV

Breede Valley

Leader's name:
Gerrie van Zyl

Contact Number:
082 336 4924

For all help & general information:
Tania Cloete
021 888 5821
076 134 5265
info@winelandsfpa.co.za

Ceres Kouebokkeveld

Leader's name:
CP du Toit

Contact Number:
083 388 9757

Marlandi van den Heever (Secretary)
Contact Number:
071 886 9762

For all help & general information:
Tania Cloete
021 888 5821
076 134 5265
info@winelandsfpa.co.za

Ceres Witzenberg

Leader's name:
Johan & Fourie Zulch

Contact Number:
082 569 9005 / 072 460 2580

Carine Botes (Secretary)
Contact Number:
023 313 3226

For all help & general information:
Tania Cloete
021 888 5821
076 134 5265
info@winelandsfpa.co.za

Drakenstein

Leader's name:
Kuba Miszewski

Contact Number:
082 080 7258

For all help & general information:
Tania Cloete
021 888 5821
076 134 5265
info@winelandsfpa.co.za

Langeberg

Leader's name:
Adrian Robinson

Contact Number:
072 550 7602

Jackie Robinson (Secretary)
Contact Number:
083 4533 529

For all help & general information:
Tania Cloete
021 888 5821
076 134 5265
info@winelandsfpa.co.za

Stellenbosch

Leader's name:
Willa Visagie

Contact Number:
072 669 1764

 

For all help & general information:
Tania Cloete
021 888 5821
076 134 5265
info@winelandsfpa.co.za

Tulbagh Wolseley

Leader's name:
Nic Dicey

Contact Number:
083 235 7235

Lucilia Turner (Secretary)
Contact Number:
072 244 5994

For all help & general information:
Tania Cloete
021 888 5821
076 134 5265
info@winelandsfpa.co.za

Warm & Kouebokkeveld LV

Leader's name:
Neil Conradie

Contact Number:
071 390 1539

Suretha (BBV Secretary)
Contact Number:
023 316 1230

For all help & general information:
Tania Cloete
021 888 5821
076 134 5265
info@winelandsfpa.co.za