Tongaat KwaZulu Natal
Schools, Theatre Companies and Facilitators in Tongaat, KwaZulu Natal.
Tongaat is a town in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, about 40 km north of Durban and 28 km south of Stanger. It now forms part of eThekwini Metropolitan Municipality, or Greater Durban area. Its population is mostly people of Indian descent. The area is home to the oldest Indian community in South Africa, having been where the first indentured Indian laborers settled in 1860 to work in the sugar-cane plantations. Much of the architectural style in the town was the work of Ivan Mitford-Barberton, and many buildings are in the Cape Dutch style of architecture.
Estimated Population: 42000
District Municipality: Ethekwini Metropolitan Municipality
Local Municipality: Ethekwini Metropolitan Municipality
Provincial Representative: Pauline Dalais, pauline@nullassitej.org.za