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AMAJUBA DISTRICT MUNICIPALITY

Mayor: Municipal Manager:
Cllr MG Ngubane Mr Linda Africa
www.amajuba.gov.za
The area is also characterised by massive poverty,
PROMOTING ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY
service backlogs and areas with marginal production
Amajuba District Municipality is situated in the north potential. The latter coincides with areas occupied
western corner of KwaZulu-Natal. The district’s local by the majority and previously disadvantaged rural
municipalities consist of Dannhauser, Newcastle, and communities or villages.
eMadlangeni. The N11 which runs in a north-south
direction linking the KwaZulu-Natal with Mpumalanga The Amajuba District Municipality supports individual
Province serves as the primary corridor and main and community programmes relating to the develop-
access route to the district. Newcastle town is the ment and rights of women and directs them to benefit
main urban centre and economic hub; towns such as the area. Programmes which are explicitly designed
Dannhauser and Utrecht serve as secondary service
centres with limited thresholds. to promote employment and income generation for
women are stressed.
Amajuba is positioned within a region that is rich in
terms of natural resources which includes Ncandu and Secondary Node
Chelmsford Reserves at the foothills of the Drakensberg.
Newcastle Local Municipality is classified as a
The district is predominantly rural and dominated by secondary node, which is an urban centre with good
extensive commercial farmlands mainly in the form of existing economic development and growth potential,
livestock (cattle) farming. and which services the regional economy.

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