Since then, the Langebaan community has held 10 gillnet fish rights in total: three cooperatively held for small-scale fishing, and seven individually held for commercial fishing. The IR period ...

Langebaan, up the West Coast, is a well-known spot for tourists and kite surfers, but it is primarily a fishing village with small-scale fishers making a living off snoek and mullet. Now, under ...

Small-scale Langebaan fishers may not be able to continue traditions as permits throttle their ... and great grandchildren, they also want to take the tradition forward and be part of fishing, ...

Cape Town – Fishing restrictions at Langebaan lagoon were imposed to protect the integrity of the marine protected area, the Western Cape High Court heard on Thursday. Responding to a legal challenge ...

He and his family agree that life in the fishing village has never been easy. Jacquin Valentyn, 25, has never had a permanent job and did not finish school.

When the Group Areas Act was enforced in the West Coast village of Langebaan, the coloured and black townspeople lost not only their land and their graveyard, they also lost their main source of ...

Analysis - When the Group Areas Act was enforced in the West Coast village of Langebaan, ... they also lost their main source of income since the rights to the properties included fishing rights.

Yzerfontein currently boasts the highest average transaction price of R3.1m followed by Langebaan at R2.3m. The West Coast is more popular with buyers and investors than ever before, according to ...

The beautiful fishing villages, many with white-washed Cape vernacular architecture have seen a strong shift in sales activities during the market boom of 2021/1. The migration of wealth to the West ...

LANGEBAAN LAGOON, South Africa — Deon Warnick’s three chest freezers stood silently in his living room, lids open. Without any fish to keep frozen, he was using them as cupboard space instead.