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Dr Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma Local Municipality: KZN436 Harry Gwala Creighton: 3,602 128,565 35.69 eDumbe Local Municipality: KZN261 Zululand Paulpietersburg: 1,943 96,735 49.79 eMadlangeni Local Municipality: KZN253 Amajuba Utrecht: 3,539 36,948 10.44 Endumeni Local Municipality: KZN241 Umzinyathi Dundee: 1,610 100,085 62.16 eThekwini ...
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.
This is a list of cities and towns found in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. They are divided according to the districts in which they are located. In the case of settlements that have had their official names changed the traditional name is listed first followed by the new name.
The eThekwini Metropolitan Municipality 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 the remaining 111 are chosen from party lists so that the total number of party representatives is proportional to the number of votes received.
As of 2020, municipalities owed South Africa's Water Boards a total of R12 billion, and a culture of non-payment had taken hold. [12] They had also accumulated debt of R46.1 billion (R31 billion overdue) with Eskom .
Zandile Ruth Thelma Gumede (born 12 May 1961) is a South African who has been serving as a Member of the KwaZulu-Natal Provincial Legislature since 2020. She served as the Executive Mayor of the eThekwini Metropolitan Municipality from 2016 until 2019.
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.