KwaDukuza Municipality

By 2015 KwaDukuza will, through unity and good governance be an economic powerhouse, delivering services in an affordable and sustainable manner within safe and healthy environment.

Municipalityities are faced with a very challenging task of ensuring that they implement the developmental mandate that they have been tasked with. To implement the objectives of the local government as they are clearly spelt out in the White Paper on Local Government, requires a very strong organisation with dynamic and charismatic leadership that is able to provide a clear direction for the success of the organisation as well as to help the organisation to achieve what it exists for.

This also requires a vision and mission that will serve to steer the KwaDukuza Municipalityity in the desired direction with positive outputs. To realize this vision council has to place much effort in fast-tracking and fine-tuning KwaDukuza’s operational strategies and programmes. This will be done through the Integrated Development Plan (IDP) which is one of the key tools for local government to cope with its developmental role and assist munipalities to arrive at decisions on issues such as the municipal budget, land management, promotion of <local economic development> and institutional and organisational transformation in a systematic, strategic and consultative manner.

KwaDukuza Municipality area of jurisdiction is ca.630 km in extent. It has a permanent population of approximately 170 000 which during peak holiday seasons, increases to over 200 000. KwaDukuza area of jurisdiction stretches from the Zinkwazi River in the north to the Tongaat River in the South. It is one of the four municipalities that make up Ilembe District Municipalityity. KwaDukuza is the district node and dominant commercial centre in the Ilembe District. KwaDukuza Municipality occupies a coastal and inland stretch of approximately 50 km in length and 14km in width, a variety of clustered and ad hoc settlements and small towns exist and is linked with a well-developed network of roads and rail infrastructure. The key feature of KwaDukuza is the N2 Development Corridor.