Country South Africa Seat Durban Time zone SAST (UTC+2) Team Sharks | Province KwaZulu-Natal Wards 103 Municipal code ETH | |
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eThekwini Metropolitan Municipality is a metropolitan municipality created in 2000 that includes the city of Durban, South Africa and surrounding towns. eThekwini is one of the 11 districts of KwaZulu-Natal province of South Africa. The majority of its 3,442,361 people speak Zulu. It was formed from seven formerly independent local councils and tribal land.
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- Etymology
- Geography
- Main places
- Demographics
- Politics
- Election results
- Non party politics
- References
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Etymology
The derivation of the word eThekwini is debated, the name is said to mean either ‘lagoon’ or ‘the one-testicled one’, referring to the appearance of the Durban Bay.
In an 1859 Zulu grammar book, Bishop Colenso asserted that the root word iTeku means "bay of the sea" 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 is used for Durban.
Geography
eThekwini is surrounded by:
Main places
The 2001 census divided the municipality into the following main places:
Demographics
The following statistics are from the 2011 census.
Politics
The municipal council consists of 219 members elected by mixed-member proportional representation. 110 councillors are elected by first-past-the-post voting in 110 wards, while the remaining 109 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 2016 Municipal Elections the African National Congress (ANC) won a majority of 56.01% of the vote and 126 seats on the council. The second-largest party was the Democratic Alliance (DA), which won 26.9% of the vote and 61 seats. The Inkatha Freedom Party, the Economic Freedom Fighters and the African Independent Congress also won notable shares of the vote.
The following table shows the detailed results of the election.
Non-party politics
The shack dwellers' movement Abahlali baseMjondolo has members in more than 30 settlements in eThekwini. Abahlali have campaigned vigorously against evictions, against forced removals and for basic services and ongoing democratic consultation. At times there has been serious conflict between Abahlali and the municipal government.