Tongaat is a
sugarcane growing township in
KwaZulu-Natal,
South Africa, that is situated on the banks of the Tongati River about 37 km north of
Durban and 28 km south of
Stanger. It now forms part of
eThekwini, the Greater Durban metropolitan area. Its population is predominantly
people of Indian descent. Aesthetically English colonial but distinctly cosmopolitan in flavour, Tongaat, part of the Sugar Coast, now supports one of the largest sugar-producing districts in the world.