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  AEGiS-ST: Making things happen, against the odds
It was on one such trip that she was spotted by a worker from the Ingwavuma Orphan Care project.
The project aims to help orphans, or children under 18 who have a sick parent, in the health district of Ingwavuma, which lies between Swaziland in the west, Mozambique in the north, and the Pongola River in the south and east.
Stranded in a new office block in the town of Ingwavuma, she was able to process just 30 foster-care grants to families last year, but with the help of the Orphan Care project she hopes to process far more this year.
www.aegis.com /news/suntimes/2002/ST020209.html   (1621 words)

  
  Encyclopedia: Ingwavuma   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Ingwavuma is a town in the Umkhanyakude District Municipality of KwaZulu-Natal Province, South Africa.
Ingwavuma was founded by Sir Charles Saunders of Eshowe in 1895 as a magistracy for the Ngwavuma region.
Ingwavuma remained desolate until 1900 when it was re-established and the magistrate returned.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Ingwavuma   (303 words)

  
 Ingwavuma   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Ingwavuma is a town in the Umkhanyakude of KwaZulu-Natal South Africa The town was named after the River and is set 700 metres above level on the Lebombo Mountains.
Ingwavuma was founded by Sir Charles Saunders of Eshowe in 1895 as a magistracy for the Ngwavuma
Ingwavuma remained desolate 1900 when it was re-established and the returned.
www.freeglossary.com /Ingwavuma   (229 words)

  
 Ingwavuma -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Ingwavuma is a town in the Umkhanyakude District Municipality of (Click link for more info and facts about KwaZulu-Natal Province) KwaZulu-Natal Province, (A republic at the southernmost part of Africa; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1910; first European settlers were Dutch (known as Boers)) South Africa.
There are a number of schools in the town including Ingwavuma High School, (Click link for more info and facts about Nansindlela School) Nansindlela School, and Isicelosethu High School.
Ingwavuma was founded by (Click link for more info and facts about Sir Charles Saunders) Sir Charles Saunders of (Click link for more info and facts about Eshowe) Eshowe in 1895 as a magistracy for the Ngwavuma region.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/i/in/ingwavuma.htm   (350 words)

  
 Ingwavuma, KwaZulu-Natal at AllExperts
Ingwavuma is a town in the Umkhanyakude District Municipality of KwaZulu-Natal Province, South Africa.
Ingwavuma was founded by Sir Charles Saunders of Eshowe in 1895 as a magistracy for the Ngwavuma region.
Ingwavuma remained desolate until 1900 when it was re-established and the magistrate returned.
en.allexperts.com /e/i/in/ingwavuma,_kwazulu-natal.htm   (584 words)

  
 Zululand - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Dingane was responsible for the execution of Piet Retief and a number of Boers in 1838.
In 1840 Dingane was murdered near Hlatikhulu Forest on the Lebombo Mountains near Ingwavuma.
In 1895 the areas of Ubombo and Ingwavuma were visited by Sir Charles Saunders of Eshowe and subsequently annexed to Zululand in 1897.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Zululand   (802 words)

  
 "Four Days in the Life of Africa" | UNAUSA.org
Ingwavuma is supposed to be a five-hour drive from the province’s biggest city, Durban.
Ingwavuma is in the north of KwaZulu Natal, the province with the highest HIV-prevalence rate in South Africa.
In Ingwavuma, young girls enjoy their lunch, which is provided by a government feeding program.
www.unausa.org /site/pp.aspx?c=fvKRI8MPJpF&b=551471&printmode=1   (1288 words)

  
 BHPBilliton.com > BBDT Projects   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Manguzi situated in the Ingwavuma District of the Ulundi Region is the largest circuit in the KwaZulu-Natal Province with seventy-seven schools.
One percent of the population of Ingwavuma is classed as urban (total 121 000), two percent of households have electricity and three percent have access to piped water.
Ingwavuma was formerly part of the Ubombo District.
trust.bhpbilliton.com /majorprojects_bbdt_manguzi.html   (472 words)

  
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Because this imbizo had not succeeded to generate ideas from the broad leadership of the people of the province that was present, we agreed that the imbizo should reconvene at a later date.
In fact, Ingwavuma was not on our original list of places to be covered during this imbizo visit to the province.
But it was of importance to go there both to salute past valour and hear the views of the people in an area that had suffered from almost total neglect for a long time.
www.anc.org.za /ancdocs/anctoday/2004/text/at05.txt   (3598 words)

  
 MDA National - Students - Elective Essay Competition
Mosvold Hospital, in Ingwavuma, is a 246 bed hospital serving a mostly Zulu population of 110,000 decimated by the scourge of HIV, with over half of all hospital deaths attributable to AIDS.
Ingwavuma lies on the border of Swaziland, in remote South Africa.
It is in an environment like Ingwavuma where medicine is practiced in the raw with limited resources that we learn a great deal about the nature of medicine, so we may be better physicians when the time comes for us to help our patients to learn, as we continue to learn with them.
www.mdanational.com.au /students/essay.asp?view=print   (1585 words)

  
 Greater Good SA   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
To provide home-based care service to chronically ill in Ingwavuma to enable them to enjoy social and health care service in a convenient manner resulting in them having an improved health and social well being as well as prepared for end of life.
Ingwavuma Orphan Care is a non government organisation which was started in June 2000 in response to the growing numbers of orphans caused by the AIDS epidemic.
Ingwavuma Orphan Care also provides home based care to about 700 patients in the area the majority of whom are children and adults dying of AIDS.
www.ggsa.co.za /causes/causedetail.jsp?cause_id=1000003840   (318 words)

  
 Food 4 Africa Projects - Ingwavuma
These all started under the umbrella of the Mosvold hospital and Friends of Mosvold Trust, but as the demands grew and the work expanded, the organization moved out of the hospital in January 2004 into its own centre on land donated by one of the local tribes.
Ingwavuma Orphan Care does not just work in the town, but spreads its services over the 3 surrounding tribal areas which cover about 2100km2.
As a result, most relatives are buried in their homestead rather than at a cemetery and it is not uncommon to see 5 or more graves in the yards at Ingwavuma.
www.food4africa.org.za /index.asp?pgid=51   (867 words)

  
 AEGiS-ST: State fails orphans who touched the nation's heart
A YEAR after their plight was first exposed in the Sunday Times, the Aids orphans of Ingwavuma in KwaZulu-Natal are still facing an uphill battle to make ends meet.
Gugu Dubazane, the Ingwavuma resident social worker, said she could only intervene once the children had all the legal documents to assist them in applying for the R120 child-support grant or the R450 foster-care grant.
SOWETO schoolchildren who saved their lunch money last year to help orphans in the Ingwavuma district of KwaZulu-Natal were back this week with another truckload of food, clothing, toys and books.
www.aegis.com /news/suntimes/2002/ST020708.html   (996 words)

  
 Sunday Times - South Africa's best selling newspaper   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
It was on one such trip that she was spotted by a worker from the Ingwavuma Orphan Care project.
In Ingwavuma, where the hospital mortuary had to be doubled in size last year, there is more than enough to do.
Stranded in a new office block in the town of Ingwavuma, she was able to process just 30 foster-care grants to families last year, but with the help of the Orphan Care project she hopes to process far more this year.
www.sundaytimes.co.za /2002/02/24/insight/in01.asp   (1596 words)

  
 Ingwavuma   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Ingwavuma is a town in Northern KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa founded by Sir Charles Saunders of Eshowe in 1895 as a magistracy for the Ngwavuma region.
The town was named after the Ngwavuma River and is set 700 metres above sea level on the Lebombo Mountains.
Historic buildings which are still to be found in the town include the 'residency' (now the municipal buildings, the police station and the Old Ingwavuma Gaol Building.
www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/ingwavuma   (346 words)

  
 Zululand   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
After the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879 a British resident Melmoth Osborne was appointed to mediate between the local chiefs and the British government, butcontinuing strife prompted the annexation of Zululand on May 9, 1887, followed by its attachment to Natal on December 31, 1897.
In 1895 the areas of Ubombo and Ingwavuma were visited by Sir Charles Saunders of Eshowe and subsequently annexed to Zululandin 1897.
A post office was established in Eshowe in 1887, but an official postal system was notstarted until May 1, 1888, at which time bothZululand and Natal became members of the Universal PostalUnion.
www.therfcc.org /zululand-81624.html   (421 words)

  
 Greater Good SA
To provide child and youth development support to vulnerable children, orphans and youth in Ingwavuma to enable them to enjoy their rights as well as undertake socially acceptable development actions resulting in them becoming responsible members of society.
Ingwavuma Orphan Care is a non government organisation which was started in June 2000 in response to the growing numbers of orphans caused by the AIDS epidemic.
Ingwavuma Orphan Care also provides home based care to about 700 patients in the area the majority of who are children and adults dying of AIDS.
www.greatergoodsa.co.za /causes/causeoverview.jsp?cause_id=1000003840   (639 words)

  
 Northern KZN welcomes Mbeki: South Africa: Politics: News24
Ingwavuma - President Thabo Mbeki received a rousing welcome when he arrived at Ingwavuma in northern KwaZulu-Natal on Friday.
Mbeki said the apartheid government had purposefully left people in areas like Ingwavuma where their were no opportunities and it must be remembered that the legacy of 300 years will not be solved in a decade.
The proceedings in Ingwavuma ended with the singing of the national anthem.
www.news24.com /News24/South_Africa/Politics/0,,2-7-12_1476668,00.html   (272 words)

  
 New database gives AIDS orphans quicker access to grants   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
A social worker from the welfare department sits on the board and can inform IOC of new government policies and regulations to ensure that all necessary criteria to qualify for a grant are listed.
The number of AIDS orphans in the Ingwavuma district is increasing so rapidly that the IOC updates information almost daily "because people are dying so fast", Barnard said.
Prior to IOC's work, which began in 2000, the majority of guardians in rural Ingwavuma were either unaware of the foster grants or found the paperwork overpowering.
www.plusnews.org /pnprint.asp?ReportID=3570   (750 words)

  
 IFP Speeches - 17 November 2001
I thank amaKhosi and their subjects and leaders of the IFP and members of our Party, for extending to me an invitation to be with them today when we have this thanksgiving function for the victories which we achieved on December 5, 2000 during the local government elections.
Ingwavuma and Ubombo are on board the IFP’s commitment to development and, together, we will be able to achieve more and better than we have in the past.
May the IFP’s victory be the victory of Ingwavuma and Ubombo, which for years has always been IFP territory.
www.ifp.org.za /Archive/Speeches/171101sp.htm   (2757 words)

  
 Teacher for life   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Hlengiwe Mthimkule frequently bubbles over with anecdotes from her life as school principal and pioneer in Ingwavuma, one of the poorest corners of South Africa.
Her biggest victory towers on a hillside against a clear blue sky: the village school, Mpontshini, four wings of brick classrooms for school children who just five years ago sat under a tree.
The men of Ingwavuma are mostly mineworkers, working in the far-away Johannesburg, while young women go to the cities to clean and cook.
www.ibis.org.na /print.asp?id=2369   (863 words)

  
 The Body: Orphans a Tiny Hint of Africa's AIDS Apocalypse
Places like Ingwavuma, an isolated hamlet near the Mozambique and Swaziland borders, are fighting not for sustainable development but to prevent wholesale social and economic collapse.
Ingwavuma, like many towns in KwaZulu-Natal, has fallen victim to AIDS for reasons both beyond and within its control.
Many schools around Ingwavuma are struggling as teachers die and students miss classes to attend funerals.
www.thebody.com /cdc/news_updates_archive/aug28_02/africa_orphans.html   (445 words)

  
 Boston.com / News / World / Africa / Mbeki Faces the Real South Africa on Rural Tour   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
INGWAVUMA, South Africa (Reuters) - It's QandA time during a meet-the-people tour of rural South Africa and President Thabo Mbeki faces a sea of raised hands from an expectant crowd of villagers.
A plucky young Zulu woman rises to her feet to deliver what could be the most important statement of her life.
The microphone moves to farmer Mngomezulu who left his herd on the Swaziland border to see Mbeki in Ingwavuma, a village in the Zulu heartland northeast of the port city of Durban.
www.boston.com /news/world/africa/articles/2004/02/09/mbeki_faces_the_real_south_africa_on_rural_tour   (936 words)

  
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INGWAVUMA, South Africa, April 16 (Reuters) - AIDS has stolen her parents and her future from 17-year-old Sithandiwe Nyawo.
She is in a desperate struggle to care for her three younger siblings with no help from the South African government.
There is no money and no transport to get to the Ingwavuma hospital where 785 children are on a list started last July for an AIDS orphans care programme.
www.circumcisioninfo.com /reuters_hlt2.htm   (1148 words)

  
 Welcome to Health-e   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
He is one of the few principals of the 83 schools in the Ingwavuma area who allows children who cannot pay the annual R30 school fees to attend his school.
Busisiwe Nhleko’s yard in another part of Ingwavuma is deserted except for two toddlers and a grunting pig.
Fourteen months ago, there were two orphans living at the hospital after their mothers had died and a few others in the community that the hospital staff knew about.
www.health-e.co.za /news/article.php?uid=20010328   (1997 words)

  
 Cycad Society SA: Encephalartos lebomboensis   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The main towns in this area are Siteki and Big Bend (Swaziland), Ingwavuma, Jozini, Ubombo and Paulpietersburg (Natal) and Pongola and Piet Retief (Transvaal).
L.H. Conyngham, made a fairly extensive survey of the cycads between Ingwavuma and Siteki and then acted as guide for a botanical party - which included Inez Verdoorn - to tour the area.
Dr Verdoorn was careful to note that the Ingwavuma plants "had stems more woolly at the crown and the cones with scale faces somewhat more prominent and pubescent" than those at Siteki.
www.cycadsociety.org /lebomboensis/lebomboensis.html   (838 words)

  
 South African Teen Risks Motherhood, AIDS
INGWAVUMA, South Africa (WOMENSENEWS)--The shy teenager with dreams of becoming a social worker sometimes visits the now unused two-room brick house where she nursed her sick father and mother to steal a glance at the one framed photograph hanging on the wall.
Ingwavuma is tucked in the country's northeastern corner near the borders with Swaziland and Mozambique.
The week after the father's funeral, a worker from Ingwavuma Orphan Care, a local nongovernmental group, drove into the Mbhamali yard in a white pick-up.
www.womensenews.org /article.cfm/dyn/aid/2402   (1170 words)

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