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 .
4-397: La Mercy is a suburb of the eThekwini municipality about 27 km (17 mi) north of Durban , South Africa . It is the location of Durban's King Shaka International Airport . It has four distinct areas - The airport precinct, the main residential area, a shanty town, and a beach-front strip of apartments along South Beach Road. Although host to an international airport, La Mercy is
8-403: A small suburb, with no shopping center or public transport to speak of; severely lacking in communal infrastructure such as pavements and public parks. This KwaZulu-Natal location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . EThekwini Metropolitan Municipality In an 1859 Zulu grammar book, Bishop Colenso asserted that the root word iTeku means "bay of
12-401: 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 . As of 2011. As of 2022 The municipal 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
16-525: The sea", from the name Mtheku , used by the Thabethe tribes clan, who were the leaders of the Nguni people . Furthermore the original local inhabitants 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
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