eThekwini Metropolitan Municipality is a metropolitan municipality created in 2000, that includes the city of

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and surrounding towns. eThekwini is one of the 11 districts of KwaZulu-Natal province of

. The majority of its 3,442,361 people speak Zulu. It was formed from seven formerly independent local councils and tribal land.

Etymology

In an 1859 Zulu grammar book, Bishop Colenso asserted that the root word ' means "bay of the sea" taken from the Thabethe tribes clan name Mtheku which were the leaders of the Nguni people. Furthermore the original local inhabitants and noted that the locative form, ', was used as a proper name for

. An 1895 English-Zulu dictionary translates the base word ' as "bay", "creek", "gulf" or "sinus", while a 1905 Zulu-English dictionary notes that ' is used for

Geography

eThekwini is surrounded by: * iLembe (DC29) to the north * the

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to the east * Ugu (DC21) to the south * Umgungundlovu (DC22) to the west

Main places

The 2001 census divided the municipality into the following main places:

Demographics

The following statistics are from the 2011 census.

Gender

As of 2011.

Ethnic group

As of 2011

Age

Politics

The municipal council consists of 222 members elected by mixed-member proportional representation. 111 councillors are elected by

first-past-the-post voting In a first-past-the-post electoral system (FPTP or FPP), formally called single-member plurality voting (SMP) when used in single-member districts or informally choose-one voting in contrast to ranked voting, or score voting, voters cast thei ...

in 111 wards, while the remaining 111 are chosen from party lists so that the total number of party representatives is proportional to the number of votes received.

Election results

In the 2021 local government elections, the

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lost their majority on the city council for the first time since the metro's establishment in 2000. The following table shows the detailed results of the election.

References

External links

eThekwini Online
The official site of Durban, South Africa {{Authority control Durban Metropolitan Municipalities of South Africa Municipalities of KwaZulu-Natal