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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 is the seat of the larger eThekwini Metropolitan Municipality, which spans an area of 2,556 km 2 (987 sq mi) and had a population of 4.2 million in 2022, [3] making the metropolitan population one of Africa's largest on the Indian Ocean. Within the city limits, Durban's population was 595,061 in 2011. [2]
Metropolitan municipalities were brought about during reforms of the 1990s so that cities could be governed as single entities. [3] For example, eThekwini (including Durban) is today a single municipality formed from what were more than 40 separate jurisdictions before 1994.
Mlaba was elected the first mayor of Durban or as it is known in South Africa, Ethekwini Metropolitan Municipality in 1996 after the transition to multiparty democracy. [1] Durban is the third largest city in South Africa with the busiest port in the whole of Africa.
King Shaka International Airport is the only international airport in the Greater Durban metropolitan area and is located approximately 8 km northeast of Verulam via the R102 and M65. It offers flights to various domestic destinations in South Africa and international routes to Doha , Dubai , Harare , Lusaka , Manzini and Istanbul .
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D'MOSS is managed by the eThekwini Metropolitan Municipality, the metropolitan body that oversees the greater Durban area. [1] As of 2015, the system represents one-third of the eThekwini Municipal Area, at 74 500 hectares. [2] The objective of the project is the conservation of natural areas, while providing recreation facilities for the ...
Hillcrest is a town in the KwaZulu-Natal province of South Africa that forms part of the eThekwini Metropolitan Municipality and is situated approximately 32 km (20 mi) north-west of Durban and 53 km (33 mi) south-east of Pietermaritzburg.