Nhlangano Town Council

Nhlangano Town Council, was declared a Town Council in 1994, governed under the Ministry of Housing and Urban Development. The town has been divided according to 6 wards, some of which are residential and businesses sites. Nhlangano Town Council is formed by a local authority with a body of corporate status established by the Urban Government Act, 1969, and is entrusted with the following general duties as articulated in Section 55 of the Urban Government Act. It has been mentioned in previous reports that little data is available on the area in respect of modern human settlement activity, but it does appear as if some settlement activity can be traced back to the eighteenth century. At around that time the first Swazi King, Ngwane II, broke away from the Zulu tribes and settled in an area on the banks of the Pongola River in close proximity to modern-day Nhlangano. Consequently, the Town was first named Goedgegun. The arrival of British settlers accelerated the growth of the Town. ...