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 .
4-587: Umbumbulu is a town in the eThekwini Metropolitan Municipality in the KwaZulu-Natal province of South Africa . The township lies near the junction of the M30 (to Umlazi ) and R603 (to Kingsburgh and Umlaas Road) about 45 km south-west of Durban and 19 km from the Indian Ocean. Derived from Zulu , the name is said to mean place of the round knoll . Umbumbulu is a rural area, bordered by Madundube on
8-507: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . EThekwini Metropolitan Municipality In an 1859 Zulu grammar book, Bishop Colenso asserted that the root word iTeku means "bay of the sea", from the name Mtheku , used by the Thabethe tribes clan, who were the leaders of the Nguni people . Furthermore the original local inhabitants and noted that the locative form, eTekwini ,
12-540: The north-east, and the farming community of Mid-Illovo on the south. In the 1970s and 1980s it was a scene of a local conflict, which saw hundreds murdered, and thousands dislocated. It has since become a picture of serene rural living. The main river running through Umbumbulu is the Ntinyane River , and it is infamous as the site where a clergyman was swept away by the floods in the 1980s, his body never retrieved to this day. This KwaZulu-Natal location article
16-617: 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 . eThekwini is surrounded by: The 2001 census divided the municipality into the following main places : The following statistics are from the 2011 census . As of 2011. As of 2022 The municipal 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
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