
IMPORTANT INFORMATION 


PROPERTY DEFENDABLE SPACE IN THE EVENT OF WILDFIRES 





Control burning allowed from 3rd May to 31th October 2023 ONLY WITH A VALID PERMIT
GENERAL BURN PERMIT APPLICATIONS WILL OPEN 22 MARCH 2023 AND CLOSE ON 30 SEPTEMBER 2023.
Landowners can apply for a permit to carry out a control burn by using the link below. Inspections will only start on 3 May 2023. Please note that it may take up to 14 workdays for the inspection to take place, and the permit to be approved by an officer of the CWDM Fire Service. A CWDM Fire Service Officer will contact the applicant to arrange a time at which the inspection will take place.
A day before you plan to burn, please inform your neighbour’s and relevant WhatsApp Groups of the scheduled burn.
On the day of the burn, please contact CWDM Fire Services Control Room on (021) 887 4446. Supply them with your burn permit number.
APPLICATIONS FOR GENERAL BURN PERMITS CLOSE ON 30 SEPTEMBER 2023.
USE LINK BELOW TO APPLY ONLINE:
https://winelandsfpa.co.za/burn-permit-application/

FIRE DANGER INDEX (FDI)
Below the South African Weather Services FDI forecast. This is the only legally accepted FDI in South Africa.
08 AUGUST 2022 (Monday)

- Stellenbosch 28
- Paarl 28
- Ceres 25
- Worcester 33
- Robertson 37
09 AUGUST 2022 (Tuesday)

- Stellenbosch 37
- Paarl 33
- Ceres 34
- Worcester 53
- Robertson 48
10 AUGUST 2022 (Wednesday)

- Stellenbosch 29
- Paarl 30
- Ceres 26
- Worcester 43
- Robertson 45
11 AUGUST 2022 (Thursday)

- Stellenbosch 36
- Paarl 34
- Ceres 17
- Worcester 36
- Robertson 45
12 AUGUST 2022 (Friday)

- Stellenbosch 35
- Paarl 34
- Ceres 29
- Worcester 43
- Robertson 52
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.
FMUs
Please select a region/ward on the image map to see the relevant leader's contact information.

Breede Valley
Leader's name:
Tjokkie du Toit
Contact Number:
082 406 2048
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
For all help & general information:
Tania Cloete
021 888 5821
076 134 5265
info@winelandsfpa.co.za
Ceres Witzenberg
Leader's name:
Robert Zulch
Contact Number:
082 416 6368
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
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:
Pieter Carstens
Contact Number:
083 628 2680
For all help & general information:
Tania Cloete
021 888 5821
076 134 5265
info@winelandsfpa.co.za
Warm & Kouebokkeveld LV
Leader's name:
Sebastian Wolfaardt (Afterhours)
Contact Number:
071 423 8451
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
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.