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The eThekwini Metropolitan Municipality ( Zulu: UMasipala weDolobhakazi laseThekwini) is a metropolitan municipality, created in 2000, that includes the city of Durban and surrounding towns. eThekwini is one of the 11 districts of the KwaZulu-Natal province of South Africa.
Durban is the seat of the larger eThekwini Metropolitan Municipality, which spans an area of 2,556 km 2 (987 sq mi) and had a population of 4.2 million in 2022, [3] making the metropolitan population one of Africa 's largest on the Indian Ocean. Within the city limits, Durban's population was 595,061 in 2011. [2]
eThekwini. eThekwini may refer to: Durban, South Africa, in the Zulu language, from itheku meaning "Ocean & bay lagoon. eThekwini Metropolitan Municipality, a metropolitan municipality created in 2000 that includes the city of Durban, South Africa and surrounding towns. Category: Disambiguation pages.
KwaZulu-Natal province of South Africa is divided, for local government purposes, into one metropolitan municipality (the eThekwini Metropolitan Municipality) and ten district municipalities. The district municipalities are in turn divided into forty-three local municipalities . In the following map, the district and metropolitan municipalities ...
eThekwini elections. The eThekwini Metropolitan Municipality council consists of 222 members elected by mixed-member proportional representation. 111 councillors are elected by first-past-the-post voting in 111 wards, while the remaining 111 are chosen from party lists so that the total number of party representatives is proportional to the ...
This is a list of suburbs in the Ethekwini Metropolitan Municipality which includes the city of Durban and surrounding towns. Some of these are commonly used names for regions, collections of suburbs (e.g. Berea, Bluff, Overport ), or formerly independent towns that are themselves composed of suburbs (e.g. Kingsburgh, Queensburgh, Westville ...
Verulam ( / vɛrləm /) is a town 24 kilometres north of Durban in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa and forms part of the eThekwini Metropolitan Municipality, governing the Greater Durban metropolitan area.
Below is a list of mayors of Durban, South Africa. In 2000 Durban became the seat of the newly created eThekwini Metropolitan Municipality .
D'MOSS is managed by the eThekwini Metropolitan Municipality, the metropolitan body that oversees the greater Durban area. [1] As of 2015, the system represents one-third of the eThekwini Municipal Area, at 74 500 hectares. [2]
There is much debate over the meaning of eThekwini, and neither the eThekwini Heritage Department nor the eThekwini Metropolitan Unicity Municipality will state as an absolute fact the derivation of the name.