The meaning of ETHEKWINI is municipality in the eastern part of the Republic of South Africa including the city of Durban population 3,442,361.
These departments are tasked with the provision of (and ensuring access to) essential services that are affordable to the local communities, for example, water, electricity and sanitation. The aim was to investigate whether this large municipality, tasked with providing basic services to clients from...
The eThekwini Municipality is located on the eastern coast of South Africa, within the Province of KwaZulu-Natal. The core city of this municipality is Durban, which has the largest port in the country and the subcontinent. The municipality has a population of about 3.5 mil people and covers...
Consequently, the aim of this study was to establish the responses of forest dwelling mammals to landscape and habitat structure in an urban-forest mosaic in the EThekwini Municipality Area, Durban, South Africa. Using presence and absence data of mammals from camera traps, we modelled occupancy...
Why Do Planners Think That Planning Has Failed Post-Apartheid? The Case of eThekwini Municipality, Durban, South AfricaSpatial transformationUrban planningMunicipal governancePost-apartheid restructuringNearly 25 years after democracy, South African cities are still burdened with an apartheid spatial form...
En- vironmental Earth Sciences, 67(8): 2193-2203.Fernandes S, Pillay S (2012) A study of the net flux of nitrates from estuaries of the eThekwini Municipality of Durban, KwaZulu-Natal South Africa. Environ Earth Sci 67(8):2193–2203...
There were 51,880 road traffic accidents recorded in Durban Municipality in 1998, 46.4% being same direction accidents. Most of the casualties (38.8%) were from the vehicle/ pedestrian accidents. Casualties per 100 accidents were highest with vehicle/pedestrian accidents (97.5) and only 9.5 in ...
In this study, we determined the influence of landscape context on species richness of forest mammals in an urban-forest mosaic of the EThekwini Municipality Area, Durban, South Africa. We determined presence/absence of mammals in 28 patches using remote-triggered camera traps over two sampling ...
Residential electricity customersFeed-in tariffIn this paper, an optimal energy control of a 3kW residential grid-interactive solar PV system is presented. A typical two-bedroom household within the eThekwini municipality in the city of Durban, South Africa, is considered. The aim is to assess ...
Durban, largest city of KwaZulu-Natal province and chief seaport of South Africa, located on Natal Bay of the Indian Ocean. It was founded in 1835 on the site of Port Natal and was named for Sir Benjamin D’Urban, the governor of the Cape Colony. Durban