Vision, Mission and Values
Vision: Amajuba will be a fully developed district, with a vibrant and sustainable economy, a better quality of life, preserved within its own cultural and traditional values.
Click here to see Amajuba District Municipality's full Vission, Mission and Objectives.
Integrated Development Plan comes Second in the Province
In a recent inter-governmental assessment, the Amajuba District Municipality’s (ADM) Integrated Development Plan (IDP) was placed second out of the 61 municipalities in KwaZulu-Natal, with the ADM narrowly losing out to its neighbour the uThukela District Municipality. The following table summarises the scores for the top five municipal IDP’s in KwaZulu-Natal:
| Service Delivery and Infrastructure | Institutional Development | Spatial & Environment | LED | Financial Viability | Good Governance | % | |
| Uthukela | 4 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 3.5 | 5 | 94.4 |
| Amajuba | 4 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 92.59 |
| Uthungulu | 3 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 88.89 |
| Umgungundlovu | 3 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 85.19 |
| Ugu | 4 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 81.48 |
All municipalities in South Africa write an IDP every year to guide their strategic planning and the spending of their budgets. The Municipal Systems Act of 2000 requires all municipalities to draw up an IDP as a single, inclusive and strategic development plan, linking and integrating other plans. It is in the IDP that one finds the policy framework on which annual budgets are based, but the document contains much more than that.
The IDP contains investment and development initiatives; all the projects, plans and programmes for the ADM devised by any state organ; and key performance indicators - the scorecards by which one can determine whether the ADM as a whole, its departments and officials, are doing their job. The IDP also describes the spatial development framework (SDF), which deals with the shape of the district and the local municipalities, its roads, its settlement patterns, its need for commercial nodes, providing a blueprint for a district that is sustainable, accessible and efficient.
If you would like to see a copy of the IDP, this can be viewed or obtained at the Amajuba District Municipality’s offices in Madadeni, or it can be accessed off the web at www.amajuba.gov.za . Further enquiries can be made with the IDP Manager on the following contact details:
Ivan Scholtz
IDP MANAGER
Tel: 034 329 7258 (work)
Email: ivans@amajuba.gov.za