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. It appears that the first elements of the actual township were laid out in 1923 along a typical grid format commonly found in many Southern African towns. Subsequent extensions of the town adopted an incremental and less rigid character.In 1960 the first Town Council was established. Up and until then the town had been known as Goedgegun but, with the event of Swazi independence in 1968, the name was changed to Nhlangano. Symbolically translated, Nhlangano means "The meeting place" in celebration of the visits of Britain's King George VI and Queen Elizabeth and Swaziland's King Sobhuza II respectively in 1947. Nhlangano town is situated in the south eastern region of Eswatini.Management is currently working with the Eswatini National Trust Commission and other relevant bodies to collect and consolidate the history of the town in preparation to launch a new strategic roadmap for the local authority.
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