ONS GESKIEDENIS
Die geskiedenis van die JIV is ingeweef in die interessante geskiedenis van Jongensfontein, soos aangeteken in die boek deur Barbara de Jager, Jongensfontein – van suiping to sauna (histories en anekdoties), uitgegee in 1999.
HISTORIC OVERVIEW OF THE JRA / JIV​
The early growth of Jongensfontein pre-1960 was haphazard and unplanned.
In 1960 the Cape Provincial Administration became aware of the arbitrary manner in which the town had grown when 38 owners of ground and houses attempted to have their ownership registered. The Administration decided that the establishment of a Township was the only way in which order could be achieved thereby allowing owners registration of title.
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In 1962 the Divisional Council of Riversdale submitted an application for Township establishment and, eventually, in 1968 the Administrator granted approval for the establishment of the Township of Jongensfontein and the Deed of Transfer of the new Township was issued in 1970.
The Jongensfontein Property Owners Association (later known as Stand Owners Association) was formed as a lobby group during this prolonged process and eventually, post 1977, assumed its current name of ​JONGENSFONTEIN RESIDENTS ASSOCIATION.
DIE FONTEINHUIS
Ons dorp se mees prominente erfenis is die outentieke monument wat uitkyk op die hoofstrand. Die Fonteinhuis is een van die oudste vakansie huisies wat gebou is op, wat destyds bekend gestaan het as "Die Suiping", en is vandag een van die laaste oorblywende strukture.
Vir baie jare het die Fonteinhuis akkommodasie gebied aan vakansiegangers en ook gedien as basis vir Desember-maand se stranddiensspanne .
In 2002 is dit omskep in 'n museum en info sentrum deur die Jongensfontein Kultuur-Geskiedenis Vereniging.
Die grond se geskiedenis kan nagespoor word so ver terug as 1792.
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THE FOUNTAIN HOUSE
ON MAIN BEACH
THE RONDAVEL LIBRARY​
The oldest, and also the smallest, building in Jongensfontein, is estimated to have been constructed around 1932. Owners Giepie en Minnie Joubert, a family from the Riversdale farming community, used it as their holiday home.
Local authorities​ have intended to renovate both the rondavel and the Fountain House, but it was amid the COVID outbreak that Naas Palmer, former chairman of the JRA, started to work on repairing the roof and upgrading the building. As soon as the strict rules relative to the pandemic were eased - toward November 2020 - Jongensfontein residents could access the "honesty library" (masked and sanitised)
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