iLembe
| iLembe iLembe District Municipality |
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| Country | South Africa | |
| province | KwaZulu-Natal | |
| Seat | KwaDukuza | |
| surface | 3269 km² | |
| Residents | 606,809 (October 2011) | |
| density | 186 inhabitants per km² | |
| key | DC29 | |
| ISO 3166-2 | ZA-KZN | |
| Website | www.ilembe.gov.za (English) | |
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| mayor | Siduduzo Gumede | |
Coordinates: 29 ° 20 ′ S , 31 ° 17 ′ E
iLembe is a district within the province of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa . 606,809 inhabitants (as of October 2011) live on a total area of 3,269 km². The district administration is based in KwaDukuza .
iLembe is the isiZulu phrase to honor the name of King Shaka, who is buried near KwaDukuza.
Community structure
As an example of the infrastructure here is the water supply for households (HWA = own domestic water connection; ÖWA = public water connection nearby; KWA = no connection to a water supply network):
| local community | Administrative headquarters | surface | Residents | HWA | Ö WA | KWA |
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| KwaDukuza | KwaDukuza | 633 km² | 158,572 | 13% | 57% | 29% |
| Ndwedwe | Ndwedwe | 1,157 km² | 152.486 | 1 % | 26% | 73% |
| Mandeni | Mandeni | 582 km² | 128,661 | 11% | 49% | 40% |
| Maphumulo | Maphumulo | 896 km² | 120,633 | 1 % | 9% | 90% |
Demographic data
Data status 2001, census .
| language | Residents | % |
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| isiZulu | 484,399 | 86.44% |
| English | 48,300 | 8.62% |
| isiXhosa | 20.001 | 3.57% |
| Afrikaans | 3,577 | 0.64% |
| isiNdebele | 1,177 | 0.21% |
| other | 703 | 0.13% |
| Sepedi | 690 | 0.12% |
| Siswati | 427 | 0.08% |
| Xitsonga | 407 | 0.07% |
| Sesotho | 375 | 0.07% |
| Setswana | 251 | 0.04% |
| Tshivenda | 57 | 0.01% |
Nature reserves
- Amatikulu Nature Reserve
- Croc Valley Nature Reserve
- Harold Johnson Nature Reserve
- Umlalazi Nature Reserve
Individual evidence
- ^ Census 2011. Basic Results. (PDF; 349 kB) Statistics South Africa , accessed on November 27, 2015 (English).
- ↑ Administrative boundaries of South Africa ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Meaning of the name municipalities
- ↑ Municipal statistics South Africa ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
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