Tongaat
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Aerial view of Tongaat
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Tongaat shown within KwaZulu-Natal
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| Coordinates: 29°34′00″S 31°07′00″E / 29.56667°S 31.11667°ECoordinates: 29°34′00″S 31°07′00″E / 29.56667°S 31.11667°E | |
| Country | South Africa |
| Province | KwaZulu-Natal |
| Municipality | eThekwini |
| Established | 1945 |
| Area | |
| • Total | 11.72 km2 (4.53 sq mi) |
| Population (2011) | |
| • Total | 42,554 |
| • Density | 3,600/km2 (9,400/sq mi) |
| Racial makeup (2011) | |
| • Black African | 41.1% |
| • Coloured | 1.2% |
| • Indian/Asian | 56.7% |
| • White | 0.4% |
| • Other | 0.5% |
| First languages (2011) | |
| • English | 59.3% |
| • Zulu | 32.3% |
| • Xhosa | 3.6% |
| • S. Ndebele | 1.0% |
| • Other | 3.8% |
| Postal code (street) | 4399 |
| PO box | 4400 |
| Area code | 032 |
Tongaat is a sugarcane growing township in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, that is situated on the banks of the Tongati River about 37 km north of Durban and 28 km south of Stanger. It now forms part of eThekwini, the Greater Durban metropolitan area. Its population is predominantly people of Indian descent. Aesthetically English colonial but distinctly cosmopolitan in flavour, Tongaat, part of the Sugar Coast, now supports one of the largest sugar-producing districts in the world.
Tongaat was established in 1945 and its name was corrupted from the river's name, Tongati, the Zulu word for the Strychnos mackenii trees that flourish on its banks.
The town is the centre for the Tongaat Hulett Sugar and the Moreland Molasses Companies. Maidstone Sugar Mill, one of the country's first mills, completed in 1850. Some original sugar-crushing methods are still employed.
The award-winning scientist Quarraisha Abdool Karim was born here inn 1960. There is a statue of Dr. Ansuyah Ratipul Singh near the town hall in Tongaat.
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