West Coast District Municipality, Heuningvlei

The area that the West Coast District Municipality (WCDM) serves stretches from the border of Cape Town Metropole to the border of the Northern Cape. The region covers a total area of 31 099 km². Statistics South Africa (Census 2022) estimated the population of the entire West Coast region is at: '497 394 people'.

Heuningvlei is one of fourteen outpost villages of the Moravian Mission Church, at Wupperthal. Twenty five families are currently living here, mainly involved in subsistence farming, planting sugar beans, potatoes and sweet potatoes. The community is also renowned for using traditional methods to produce dried fruit and for organically cultivating Rooibos tea.

The two roads, the R27 and the N7 from Cape Town, will take you through the golden wheat fields of the Swartland, the vineyards of the Olifants River, the picturesque coastal villages of Paternoster and St. Helena Bay and the peaceful atmosphere of little towns like: 'Darling: Piketberg; Goedverwacht and Porterville'. Further north, the incredible mountains of the Cederberg, famous for its rock art.