La Mercy is a suburb of the eThekwini municipality about 27 km (17 mi) north of Durban, South Africa. It is the location of Durban's King Shaka International Airport. It has four distinct areas - The airport precinct, the main residential area, a shanty town, and a beach-front strip of apartments along South Beach Road. Locals refer to the suburb as No Mercy, due to the failing infrastructure and little support from the municipality.

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La Mercy
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Coordinates: 29°38′S 31°08′E
Country	South Africa
Province	KwaZulu-Natal
Municipality	eThekwini
Government
Area [1]
• Total	27.73 km2 (10.71 sq mi)
Population  (2011)[1]
• Total	2,779
• Density	100/km2 (260/sq mi)
Racial makeup (2011) [1]
• Black African	41.6%
• Coloured	1.8%
• Indian/Asian	48.2%
• White	7.4%
• Other	0.9%
First languages (2011) [1]
• English	57.0%
• Zulu	23.2%
• Xhosa	12.8%
• Afrikaans	2.4%
• Other	4.5%
Time zone	UTC+2 (SAST)
Postal code (street)	4399
PO box	4405

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Although host to an international airport, La Mercy is a small suburb, with no shopping center or public transport to speak of; severely lacking in communal infrastructure such as pavements and public parks. La Mercy also has a very dilapidated infrastructure, nothing has been maintained in the past 30 years, and there are constant issues with electricity and water, since the 2022 floods, nothing has been properly repaired. The Ethekweni municipality is one of the worst performing municipalities in South Africa.

There is one under-utilised primary school (La Mercy Primary), two hotels (La Mercy Beach Hotel and Seabelle) with restaurants, two shops, and a community hall.