Mtembu, Vuyokazi Ntombikayise.Vezi, Ntombiyenkosi Evidence.2025-10-092025-10-0920222022https://hdl.handle.net/10413/23949Masters Degree. University of KwaZulu-Natal. Durban.The study is geared towards finding the impact of Coronavirus on Strategic planning in the eThekwini Municipality, such as to name a few Umgeni, Ntuzuma, Central reference and Don reference Libraries. Such rapid external changes have had immediate internal implications for organisations such as eThekwini Municipal Libraries and Heritage Department, leaving leaders in organisations in despair and with huge uncertainties. The turbulent era of coronavirus, commonly referred to as COVID-19, has agitated the world globally and locally; these shock waves of the virus have left businesses and organizations in despair due to the rapid changes that had to be adopted timeously. This disrupted the labour market as severe social proximity restrictions put economic activities on hold. This research adopted a qualitative methodology comprised of semi-structured interviews conducted with 8 managerial personnel within the Libraries Department. Respondents were selected purposively from management to conduct Microsoft teams interviews. The brief findings outline includes the exploring new library adaptation strategies that that can help the department stay relevant and maintain book services. The findings shared challenges experienced by eThekwini libraries, such as social-political and economic limitation factors. This influenced the way strategic planning had to be used in aligning eThekwini Municipal Libraries’ operations with such decisions, the impact of coronavirus on strategic planning and the available resources to mitigate widespread impact of coronavirus and future pandemic. The recommendations included that the eThekwini Municipal Management have a strategic planning that considers external factors such as socialpolitical and environmental ones as they have an impact on how the eThekwini Municipality Libraries address a situation such as the coronavirus pandemic.enCC0 1.0 Universalhttp://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/AdaptationStrategic planningManagement.Thesis