Our Province, KwaZulu-Natal
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Our City, Durban
Durban is the warmest place to be! Offering an unmatched lifestyle in the beautiful, natural environment of coastal KwaZulu-Natal, Durban offers a balance of live, work and play unequalled by any other South African city. Couple this with great infrastructure, a bustling port and international accessibility, and you have an idyllic location with incredible potential and great promise.
ACCOLADES
- First placed South African City in the Top Quality of Living International Mercer Survey, 2016
- New7Wonders City 2015
- New York Times’ seventh Must-Visit City in the World
- Knight Frank International Residential City Index 2016 placed Durban first for Residential Investment Performance for the whole of Africa, and one of the top 50 cities globally
- Busiest general cargo port in Africa
- Best trading density of any shopping centre in the country at Gateway Theatre of Shopping
ECONOMY
- 3,7 million people
- Economic growth rates higher than the South African average
- eThekwini Municipality has AA and A1+ international credit ratings off an annual budget of approximately R45 billion per annum
- Biggest and busiest metro in the province
- Core BRICS city
- Home to Dube TradePort Special Economic Zone (SEZ)
- Positioned as a platform to access SADC markets
- 46th busiest port in the world, handling over 60 percent of total container traffic to and from South Africa
- Diverse economy in manufacturing, finance, real estate, trade and transport
INFRASTRUCTURE
- Busiest shipping port in Sub-Saharan Africa with 4 500 commercial vessels per year (74 million tons of cargo)
- Award-winning King Shaka International Airport, which has the capacity to handle over 15 million passengers and 100 000 tons of freight, with growth capacity to 65 million passengers and 2 million tons of freight
- Most awarded electricity distribution services on the continent
- Vast road and rail network
- GO!Durban – Integrated Rapid Public Transport Network being rolled out across the metropolitan – safe, flexible, cost effective
- World-class water treatment
- Smart City – extensive fibre optic and telecommunications networks
- Globalised Metro Port City
- Shipping port supported by a new multi-product pipeline from Durban’s port to the inland areas




