ILEMBE UMASIPALA WESIFUNDA
MUNICIPAL LEADERSHIP
Departmental Head
Director: Public Safety
MMr. Vusumuzi Mboyana was born in Umlazi in the eThekwini Metropolitan Municipality of KwaZulu-Natal.
He is the Director of Technical Services at Okhahlamba Local Municipality. Mr. Mboyana holds a BTech Degree in Urban Engineering from the Tshwane University of Technology, a National Diploma in Civil Engineering from the Mongusuthu University of Technology, a Diploma in Municipal Finance Management which he obtained from the University of Pretoria.
He also holds an NFQ Level 5 qualification in Managing Labour Intensive Construction Projects and a number of other certificates relating to local government. Mr. Mboyana matriculated at Christian High School in Durban.
He is a member of IMESA since 2007 and he also serves as a Candidate Technologist on the Engineering Council of South Africa. He joined Okhahlamba Local Municipality as the Director of Technical Services in 2020.
Before joining Okhahlamba Local Municipality, he worked at Newcastle Local Municipality as the Director of Technical Services between 2011 and 2019.
He also worked at eThekwini Metropolitan Municipality as a Project Manager for a period of five years. Before transitioning to the public sector, Mr. Mboyana worked in the private sector as a private consultant in a firm of consulting engineers as a Senior Design and Site Technician for a seven-year period.
"Our modus operandi are driven by excellence..."
Technical Services Department aspires to be a value-adding department in providing basic service delivery infrastructure such as Public Works Services (roads and community facilities), Project Management services and Electrical Services.
Our modus operandi are driven by excellence, pre-eminence in service delivery and the establishment and maintenance of efficient, effective management systems and processes that provide a caring and responsive service to meet internal and external needs in a pragmatic and flexible manner.
As a directorate we pledge ourselves to...
- Actively encourage and respect the right of all stakeholders, staff and students to engage in critical inquiry, independent research, intellectual discourse and public debate in a spirit of responsibility and accountability, in accordance with the principles and values of public administration and institutional autonomy.
- Provide basic services through infrastructural development and create employment opportunities for all infrastructure development.
- Embrace our responsibility as a public institution to support and contribute to national and regional development, and the welfare and upliftment of the wider community, through the provision of high quality and sound administration.
- Conduct ourselves according to the highest ethical standards, and provide administrative practices and models that promotes sound ethical practice.
- Manage and run our institution in conscious awareness of the environment, and foster a culture of responsible, ethical and just administrative action.
- Ensure effective governance through broad and inclusive participation, democratic representation, accountability, and transparency that serves as an example that contributes to building the democratic ethos of our country.
- Ensure management of existing asset infrastructure through maintenance programme.
- Promote and uphold the good image of the municipality and create a fertile ground for the municipality to deliver sound administration.
Department Contact
Jabulile Shabalala
Tel: 036 448 1023
Email: [email protected]