King Cetshwayo District Municipality (formerly Uthungulu District Municipality) is one of the 11 district municipalities ("districts") of

KwaZulu-Natal KwaZulu-Natal (, also referred to as KZN) is a Provinces of South Africa, province of South Africa that was created in 1994 when the government merged the Zulu people, Zulu bantustan of KwaZulu ("Place of the Zulu" in Zulu language, Zulu) and ...

province in

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. The seat of the district is

Richards Bay Richards Bay () is a city in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. It is situated on a 30 square kilometre lagoon of the Mhlatuze River, which makes it one of the country's largest harbours. Richards Bay also has the deepest natural harbour on the Africa ...

. The majority of its 885 944 people speak Zulu (2001

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). The district code is DC28. It is named after

Cetshwayo kaMpande Cetshwayo kaMpande (; ; 1826 – 8 February 1884) was the king of the Zulu Kingdom from 1873 to 1884 and its Commander in Chief during the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879. His name has been transliterated as Cetywayo or Cetshwayo. Cetshwayo consistently ...

, King of the

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from 1872 to 1879, who led his nation to victory against the British in the

Battle of Isandlwana The Battle of Isandlwana (alternative spelling: Isandhlwana) on 22 January 1879 was the first major encounter in the Anglo-Zulu War between the British Empire and the Zulu Kingdom. Eleven days after the British invaded the Zulu Kingdom, Zululand ...

Geography

Neighbours

King Cetshwayo District is surrounded by: * iLembe to the south (DC29) * Umkhanyakude to the northeast (DC27) * The

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to the east * Umzinyathi to the west (DC24) * Zululand to the north (DC26)

Local municipalities

The district contains the following local municipalities:

Demographics

The following statistics are from the

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Gender

Ethnic group

Age

Sister City

King Cetshwayo District is officially a sister city of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA (

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). The joining of the two cities was largely enacted from legislation in

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in collaboration with the Africa Urban Poverty Alleviation Program. In 2009,

Sister Cities International Sister Cities International (SCI) is a non-governmental organization (NGO) with the goal of facilitating partnerships between communities within the United States and other countries by establishing sister cities. Sister cities are agreements of ...

launched the Africa Urban

Poverty Alleviation Poverty reduction, poverty relief, or poverty alleviation is a set of measures, both economic and humanitarian, that are intended to permanently lift people out of poverty. Measures, like those promoted by Henry George in his economics classi ...

Program, a three-year project to alleviate poverty in 25 African cities (including King Cetshwayo District) through water,

sanitation Sanitation refers to public health conditions related to clean drinking water and treatment and disposal of human excreta and sewage. Preventing human contact with feces is part of sanitation, as is hand washing with soap. Sanitation systems ...

and health initiatives. Milwaukee will collaborate with their African counterparts to identify and address the most critical problems in these sectors, which form barriers to sustained development in urban areas. This project is funded by a $7.5 million grant from the

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. The program is cited to end in middle of the year 2012.

Politics

Election results

Election results for uThungulu (King Cetshwayo District) in the

South African general election, 2004 General elections were held in South Africa on Wednesday, 14 April 2004. The African National Congress (ANC) of President Thabo Mbeki, which came to power after the end of the apartheid system in 1994, was re-elected with an increased majority. ...

. * Population 18 and over: 477 576 3.91% of total population* Total votes: 252 139 8.46% of total population* Voting % estimate: 52.80% votes as a % of population 18 and over

References

External links

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