(+27)33 816 6800

1 Main Road, New Hanover 3230,
KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
uMshwathi Local Municipality
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Description:
The uMshwathi Local Municipality is a Category B municipality situated within the uMgungundlovu District, immediately adjacent to Pietermaritzburg, in the KwaZulu-Natal Province. It is the largest municipality of seven in the district.
The municipality is located in an area that was largely under the control of tribal authorities until very recently. However, 
in the remaining portion there are towns built by German immigrants some 150 years ago. In the 1850s, 13 cotton 
planter families from Osnabruck unter Bergthell left Germany and settled in the area. They were followed by missionaries and other colonists,  mostly from Hanover, who also settled in the region, founded New Hanover and Wartburg, and brought with them not only the Lutheran faith but the German language and culture. Wartburg itself is named after the castle in Eisenach, where Dr Martin Luther translated the bible into German.

 

district Municipalities

  • uMgungundlovu District Municipality
  • Msunduzi Municipality
  • uMngeni Municipality
  • IMpendle Municipality
  • Mkhambathini Municipality
  • Mpofana Municipality
  • Richmond Municipality
  • National Cogta
  • KZN Cogta
  • National Treasury
  • KZN Treasury

Contact

www.umshwathi.gov.za

033 816 6800

1 Main Road, New Hanover 3230, KwaZulu-Natal

Private Bag X29, Wartburg, 3233

Fax: 033 502 0286

Email: info@umshwathi.gov.za

Design By – uMshwathi Local Municipality (ICT Division) 2020

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