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The Durban Borough Police created in 1854, later to become the Durban City Police, and now the Durban Metro Police, to police the city of Durban: the force was headed by a Chief Constable and was modelled on British police forces. [1] "Municipal police forces" were also established in some cities in the 1980s, during the apartheid era.
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.
The municipalities of South Africa as of 2016. This is a list of municipalities of South Africa.The largest metropolitan areas are governed by metropolitan municipalities, while the rest of the country is divided into district municipalities, each of which consists of several local municipalities.
KwaZulu-Natal is a province of South Africa that is divided, for local government purposes, into one metropolitan municipality (the eThekwini Metropolitan Municipality) and ten district municipalities. The district municipalities are in turn divided into forty-three local municipalities.
Between April 2018 and March 2019, the Ethekwini Metropolitan Municipality recorded 1,871 murders, gradually increasing from 1,349 seven years earlier and down from 2,042 in 2009. [105] Criminals usually avoid targeting tourists because they know that the police response will be greater. [106] Heist or theft is a common crime in the city. [107]
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.
Mpumalanga, also widely known as Hammarsdale, is a township located in the eThekwini Metropolitan Municipality in the KwaZulu-Natal province of South Africa. It is situated some 10 km south-south-east of Cato Ridge and some 50 km west of Durban. Derived from Zulu, the name means 'sunrise', 'the sun comes out'. [2]
Organisationally and administratively it forms part of the eThekwini Metropolitan Municipality and its South Municipal Planning Region. It is the fourth largest township in South Africa, after Soweto, Tembisa and Katlehong. [2] Prior to December 1st 2023, vehicle registration plates in Umlazi started with NUZ - N for Natal & U for Umlazi.