EThekwini Metropolitan Municipality
| eThekwini | ||
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| Metropolitan municipality | ||
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.svg) Location in KwaZulu-Natal |
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| Coordinates: 29°52′S 31°01′E / 29.867°S 31.017°ECoordinates: 29°52′S 31°01′E / 29.867°S 31.017°E | ||
| Country | South Africa | |
| Province | KwaZulu-Natal | |
| Seat | Durban | |
| Wards | 103 | |
| Government | ||
| • Type | Municipal council | |
| • Mayor | Zandile Gumede (ANC) | |
| • Deputy Mayor | Fawzia Peer | |
| • Municipal manager | Michael Sutcliffe | |
| Area | ||
| • Total | 2,291 km2 (885 sq mi) | |
| Population (2011) | ||
| • Total | 3,442,361 | |
| • Density | 1,500/km2 (3,900/sq mi) | |
| Racial makeup (2011) | ||
| • Black African | 73.8% | |
| • Coloured | 2.5% | |
| • Indian/Asian | 16.7% | |
| • White | 6.6% | |
| First languages (2011) | ||
| • Zulu | 62.8% | |
| • English | 26.8% | |
| • Xhosa | 3.9% | |
| • Afrikaans | 1.7% | |
| • Other | 4.8% | |
| Time zone | SAST (UTC+2) | |
| Municipal code | ETH | |
eThekwini Metropolitan Municipality is a metropolitan municipality created in 2000 that includes the city of Durban, South Africa and surrounding towns. eThekwini is one of the 11 districts of KwaZulu-Natal province of South Africa. The majority of its 3,442,361 people speak Zulu. It was formed from seven formerly independent local councils and tribal land.
The derivation of the word eThekwini is debated, the name is said to mean either ‘lagoon’ or ‘the one-testicled one’, referring to the appearance of the Durban Bay.
In an 1859 Zulu grammar book, Bishop Colenso asserted that the root word iTeku means "bay of the sea" and noted that the locative form, eTekwini, was used as a proper name for Durban.
An 1895 English-Zulu dictionary translates the base word iteku as "bay", "creek", "gulf" or "sinus", while a 1905 Zulu-English dictionary notes that eTekwini is used for Durban.
eThekwini is surrounded by:
The 2001 census divided the municipality into the following main places:
The following statistics are from the 2011 census.
The municipal council consists of 219 members elected by mixed-member proportional representation. 110 councillors are elected by first-past-the-post voting in 110 wards, while the remaining 109 are chosen from party lists so that the total number of party representatives is proportional to the number of votes received.
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