20th September 1924: Amahlubi arrived in the North West from Alice in the Eastern Cape led by Nkosi Nonkonyana Shadrack Fuba Zibi. The Chief realized the importance of land ownership when he was in Europe in French World War and on his return he convinced his regiment that they should acquire land with their salaries.
The community is currently under the leadership of Nkosi Madoda Shadrack Zibi, who has engineered development to be spread across 5 villages which include Khayakhulu, Welgeval, KwaNolanga, Welverdiend, Goedehoop,Welgeval ,with a current population of 13 598 people (Female: 7190, Male: 6408)
The Amahlubi Chairman's Foundation is founded by Mr LN Zibi as an initiative by the Amahlubi Traditional Council, through the office of the Nkosi Madoda Shadrack Zibi
The next Billionaires of this world are not going to come from the oil and gas industry. They will come from the Agriculture industry - President: African Development Bank
As we embark on consolidating and strengthing our board and governance structures by ensuring that our oversite role as the board to the management committee is always intergrated, credible and organised. By so doing we are going to be introducing a board structure to ensure that we achieve integrity in executing favourably on our policy undertakings..
This process will be lead by the CEO and the organisations secretariat who will be appointed on a full time basis serving and executing her functions both at board and management level.
It gives us great pleasure to invite potential social partners both government and non-governmental to work with us in taking forward the vision of developing our rural communities by applying educational methodologies and sciences prefered to the mainstream economies and their respective communities.
Learning through research and innovation poses as the future which must encompasse realities in our communities. Therefore each each socio-economic development program you’ll find in this report will seek scientific guardance from:
• Economic and Management sciences
• Education sciences
• Health sciences
• Agriculture sciences
• Law science
• Indegenious practice and culture sciences
We thank you in advance for the continued support and commitment to such a bold step to change our communities our Country and Africa for the better