The Ingonyama Trust was established in terms of the Kwazulu-Natal Ingonyama Trust Act (Act 3 of 1994). It functions as a landowner-in-law of the Ingonyama Trust Land. By 31 March 2011, the land in question comprised 2,705,229 hectares under some 1600 individual titles in all of the 11 Districts of Kwazulu-Natal and eThekwini Metro. The total number of people living on Trust land as at 2001 census was estimated at 4, 5 million.