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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 is a province of South Africa that 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.
For example, eThekwini (including Durban) is today a single municipality formed from what were more than 40 separate jurisdictions before 1994. [4] This reform process was a response to the way in which apartheid policy had broken up municipal governance.
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
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) and do not necessarily correspond to specific legal ...
uMhlanga, alternatively rendered Umhlanga, is a residential, commercial and resort town north of Durban on the coast of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.It is part of the eThekwini Metropolitan Municipality, which was created in 2000 and includes the greater Durban area.