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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. As of 2011, the majority of its 3,442,361 inhabitants spoke isiZulu.
Durban (/ ˈ d ɜːr b ə n / DUR-bən; Zulu: eThekwini, from itheku meaning "bay, lagoon") [a] is the third-most populous city in South Africa, after Johannesburg and Cape Town, and the largest city in the province of KwaZulu-Natal.
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.
This is a list of cities and towns found in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.They are divided according to the districts in which they are located.. In the case of settlements that have had their official names changed the traditional name is listed first followed by the new name.
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
Mariannhill is a cluster of suburbs and townships in eThekwini Municipality in KwaZulu Natal, South Africa.. In 1882, Trappist missionary Father Franz Pfanner established Mariannhill Monastery 16 km west of Durban. [2]
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 number of votes received.
In December 2015, he was elected Regional Secretary of the eThekwini ANC, a full-time position; he served under Regional Chairperson Zandile Gumede, who subsequently became Mayor of eThekwini. [2] By 2018, it was widely reported that Ntuli and Gumede had a tense relationship, [3] [4] and Ntuli was touted as a possible successor to Gumede. [5]