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In the News (Fri 25 Dec 09)

  
  etymology.ca - KwaMhlanga   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
They moved into the new campus in July 1998 in KwaMhlanga, which used to be the capitol of...
We extend the ministry of Mukhanyo to the suffering and needy in the KwaMhlanga area in the Thembisile District in Mpumalanga.
KwaMhlanga is a town in Mpumalanga, South Africa and is the spiritual home of the amaNdebele tribe that settled here in the early 1700s.
www.etymology.ca /KwaMhlanga/reference/fullview/wikipedia/1481166   (75 words)

  
 SABCnews.com - south_africa/crime1justice
An 11-month-old baby from KwaMhlanga in Mpumalanga has died after her mother allegedly gave her juice diluted with poison.
KwaMhlanga police say the 22-year-old woman allegedly bought poison and diluted it with the juice in an attempt to kill herself and her two children.
The mother and her four-year-old child survived and are receiving treatment at the KwaMhlanga hospital.
www.sabcnews.co.za /south_africa/crime1justice/0,2172,68785,00.html   (88 words)

  
 sreekanth around town.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
It's easy for Westerners to say that widespread promiscuity is the root of the AIDS problem in Africa, where the virus is transmitted mainly by heterosexual contact.
But the reasons for reckless promiscuity go beyond hormones, and I came to understood them better near this town of KwaMhlanga in the northeastern part of South Africa, in the tin shack where Gertrude Tobela frets about her teenage daughter.
Tobela, 34, slim and quick to smile — and now to cry — is the first in her family to graduate from elementary school, high school or college.
chaguturu.blogspot.com /2003/10/kristof-has-seem-to-taken-on.html   (822 words)

  
 Pastor held for raping girl, 12
KwaMhlanga - A Zion Christian Church leader has been charged with rape for apparently taking a 12-year-old church member as his second wife when he could no longer have sex with his pregnant wife.
Captain Mamsy Cibe said on Monday the 43-year-old pastor from KwaMhlanga north of Witbank was arrested at his church on Sunday afternoon.
The girl had been taken to KwaMhlanga hospital for counselling and to be tested for sexually transmitted diseases.
www.news24.com /News24/South_Africa/News/0,,2-7-1442_1655293,00.html   (218 words)

  
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The KwaMhlanga testing centre in Mpumalanga will be revamped at a cost of R400 000 in an attempt to curb corruption.
The centre is one of several in the province accused of issuing fake driver’s licences and roadworthy certificates.
He said the steering committee in charge of implementing the best practise model at KwaMhlanga had approved the building plans and that contractors are expected to start work in mid-March.
www.cartoday.com /content/news/singlepage.asp?in=4073   (334 words)

  
 missing
KWAMHLANGA -- The vice rector of Marapyane College of Education in Mpumalanga has not reported for work for the past six months, but continues to be paid, African Eye News Service reported yesterday.
Mr Solly Ranamani -- who is also the ANC mayor of Mathanjane near KwaMhlanga, KwaNdebele -- was driven off the campus last July because he was considered unsuitable for the position.
The college has been without a rector or vice-rector for the past 13 months, after Mabuza withdrew former rector Isaac Tlou and vice-rector Elliot Vilakazi.
www.dispatch.co.za /1999/02/02/easterncape/MISSING.HTM   (147 words)

  
 Boston.com / News / World / Africa / In S. Africa, WHO leader sees chance in AIDS fight
KWAMHLANGA, South Africa -- Inside a tiny health clinic yesterday, the new head of the World Health Organization wanted to know the reaction to South Africa's decision to begin treating AIDS patients with lifesaving antiretroviral drugs.
About 200 people waiting for him covered their eyes, and when the dust cleared, they cheered, sang, and a band began playing and marching around his car.
Lee said the KwaMhlanga clinic would be a prime place to oversee the distribution of antiretroviral drugs.
www.boston.com /news/world/africa/articles/2003/09/03/in_s_africa_who_leader_sees_chance_in_aids_fight   (789 words)

  
 KwaMhlanga: No crime in plaza
KwaMhlanga - The management of KwaMhlanga Plaza in Mpumalanga denied news reports that there was serious crime inside the complex - and said security inside the plaza was tight.
Plaza spokesperson Sillion Lekgoana said on Wednesday: "The 13 armed robberies and five rapes reported during the opening week of the centre actually happened in the surrounding area and there was no crime inside the plaza at all."
The KwaMhlanga Plaza is located at a busy intersection on the road from Pretoria to Moloto, in Mpumalanga north-east of the city.
www.news24.com /News24/South_Africa/News/0,,2-7-1442_1398194,00.html   (249 words)

  
 Satellites   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
The 4 satellite libraries are situated on the Technikon Pretoria's satellite campuses.
The latter, in a radius of 250 km, are situated in Witbank, Nelspruit, KwaMhlanga and Pietersburg in the Northern Province.
Membership of the satellite libraries is free to all registered students and staff of the Technikon.
acpub.techpta.ac.za /old_dirs/bib/satellit.htm   (65 words)

  
 SABCnews.com - south_africa/social
Hundreds of residents of KwaMhlanga and surrounding areas have been unable to utilise - the services of State departments after electricity was cut due to non-payment.
The departments of labour, home affairs, local government and housing and roads and transport at KwaMhlanga in Mpumalanga, have been without power for the last three weeks.
Fish Mahlalela, the Mpumalanga MEC for roads and transport, has promised to attend to the matter as soon as possible.
www.sabcnews.co.za /south_africa/social/0,2172,104214,00.html   (81 words)

  
 Sunday Times - news - 18 July 1999   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
For a start, the average working day at Kwamhlanga lasts just one hour and nine minutes.
May, one of the courts at Kwamhlanga sat for only 56 minutes - the other managed an hour and 20 minutes.
Meanwhile, staff at the court have to deal with the occasional blocked toilet and an ill-equipped office.
www.sundaytimes.co.za /1999/07/18/news/news21.htm   (463 words)

  
 Sunday Times - gauteng - 10 January 1999   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
THE thin shafts of light that filter into the holding cells of the small KwaMhlanga police station are the only sunshine the inmates get to see.
The policemen who guard the awaiting-trial prisoners say that although their charges are caged up for 24 hours without exercise and decent light they have no option - all they want is to make sure they do not escape.
At KwaMhlanga station, Vusi might not be thinking about escape.
www.suntimes.co.za /1999/01/10/news/gauteng/njhb16.htm   (496 words)

  
 Sunday Times - gauteng - 24 October 1999   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
KwaMhlanga councillor Sello Ramalekana was not asked to plead in the KwaMhlanga Magistrate's Court this week.
Ramalekana shot the rape suspect when he and the girl's boyfriend confronted him the morning after the incident.
KwaMhlanga police representative, Captain Shimani Seloane, said the rape suspect had not been arrested because the victim and her family had moved to Gauteng shortly after the incident to avoid embarrassment in their village.
www.suntimes.co.za /1999/10/24/news/gauteng/njhb26.htm   (744 words)

  
 Beadwork of the Ndebele of South Africa   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
The Ndebele are a cultural group living in northeastern South Africa in an area called the Transvaal or KwaNdebele, northeast of the capitol, Pretoria.
KwaMhlanga Village, especially the Esther Curio Shop (right).
Esther is a famous Ndebele artist who has painted Ndebele designs on airplanes, Mercedes Benzes, etc. She was at an art exhibition in Europe, so I missed her.
www.nfobase.com /html/beadwork_of_the_ndebele_of_sou.html   (832 words)

  
 :: MWEB News :: >> Ndebele nation's King Mayitjha dies
King Mayitjha III of the Ndebele nation has died, shortly after agreeing that the nation should have only one king in discussions with King Makhosoke II at KwaMhlanga's Nhlapo Commission on traditional leadership.
The Nzunza / Mabhoko Royal House spokesman, Chief John Mahlangu, said the king attended the Nhlapo Commission on traditional leadership in KwaMhlanga earlier in the day.
King Mayitjha and King Makhosoke II agreed at the commission that the Ndebele nation should have only one king.
new.mweb.co.za /news/news_story.jsp?content=136479   (263 words)

  
 BirdLife Northern Gauteng - Dinokeng
The western section of the Roodeplaat Dam Nature Reserve is reached by taking the Zambezi Drive offramp off the N1 north, turning east at the bottom of the offramp and left at the first traffic lights, signposted to KwaMhlanga.
One reaches the southeastern corner of the Seringveld Conservancy by continuing on the KwaMhlanga road from Roodeplaat to the first turnoff to the right after the dam wall, signposted simply "Skoolpad".
The area can be traversed on one of three untarred roads running roughly in a north-westerly direction from the KwaMhlanga road.
www.birding.co.za /pbc/dinokeng.htm   (1518 words)

  
 Boston.com / News / World / Africa / In S. Africa, WHO leader sees chance in AIDS fight
But, said Lee, "it also means that the medicine is at least 60 percent effective."
At the KwaMhlanga clinic, about 50 miles north of Johannesburg, Lee's small entourage stirred up a cloud of red dust from the road.
The nurse said those infected knew about the lifesaving antiretroviral drugs, but until now didn't have much hope of getting the medicine.
www.boston.com /news/world/africa/articles/2003/09/03/in_s_africa_who_leader_sees_chance_in_aids_fight?mode=PF   (805 words)

  
 iafrica.com | news | sa news Cops in car theft syndicate nabbed
Three members of the police's organised crime unit in KwaMhlanga in Mpumalanga were arrested on Tuesday morning in connection with running a vehicle theft syndicate.
One of the police officers was arrested while driving a stolen vehicle to work.
Mpumalanga police spokesperson Izak Van Zyl said two traffic officers, linked to the syndicate, were also arrested at the KwaMhlanga municipal offices.
iafrica.com /news/sa/190482.htm   (258 words)

  
 Main Infomation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
As others see the working model, it will be easier to communicate and export (multiply and duplicate) the idea to other communities across South Africa.
AFnet has joined hands with a local missionary in KwaMhlanga in order to establish a programme where the three aspects of our strategy will be implemented.
According to the Provincial Health Department clinics the HIV/AIDS infection rate is as high as 45%.
www.afnet.org /kwandebele.htm   (1295 words)

  
 Fled as rapist dropped pants
Kwamhlanga - An Mpumalanga woman was able to escape from her rapist when he couldn't chase her because his pants were around his knees.
The 20-year-old from Zakheni in KwaMhlanga, north of Witbank, was confronted by three men as she got out of a taxi on Monday night.
Captain Malcolm Mokomene of Highveld police said on Thursday: "They drew a gun and threatened to kill her if she screamed, and then dragged her to an abandoned house."
www.landbou.com /News24/South_Africa/News/0,,2-7-1442_1647004,00.html   (169 words)

  
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He said it was therefore incumbent on all the nations of the world to work collectively to eradicate AIDS from the face of the earth adding that the Peace Corps are working to that end.
Peace Corps Volunteer Jaime Geib, a graduate of Maryvale High School and the University at Buffalo, spent 27 months in South Africa and returned to the U.S. in September.
(The first two shipments totaled 1,500 books, weighing 540 pounds!) The school in Kwamhlanga used to be a jail, and it has tin shacks and barracks for classrooms.
www.rpcv.org /pubs/2005-06-30_In_The_News.doc   (2612 words)

  
 Masibambisane stichting Nederland   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Mukhanyo Community Development Centre (MCDC) werd in Zuid-Afrika opgestart vanuit een brandende verlangen van de directeur van de Mukhanyo Theologische College in Zuid-Afrika om de bediening van Jezus Christus naar de noodlijdende en behoeftige inwoners van de KwaMhlanga omgeving in Mpumalanga uit te breiden.
Melanie Streicher van de Lambano toevluchtsoord werd benaderd om de weeskinderen in de KwaMhlanga omgeving op te vangen en te helpen verzorgen.
In 2002 werden 21 vrouwen opgeleid om kinderen die met het HIV-virus besmet zijn te verzorgen.
www.masibambisane.nl   (219 words)

  
 SABCnews.com - south_africa/crime1justice
Mpumalanga police have arrested a bogus medical doctor at KwaMhlanga east of Pretoria.
Jacky Nkoana, a police spokesperson, says the 28-year-old man has conned a number of people in the KwaMhlanga area.
The man allegedly promised to register his victims at an unnamed nursing college for a fee of R180.
www.sabcnews.com /south_africa/crime1justice/0,2172,96909,00.html   (89 words)

  
 Untitled Document   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
On the 8th January 2003, a candle fell over and set Vusi’s house on fire in a very poor rural community in KwaMhlanga in Mpumalanga province (just on the edge of Gauteng), about an hour’s drive north of Pretoria.
He was burned on his face, neck, arms (to elbows), and his knees.
In mid February 2004 Joke Parre of MCDC in KwaMhlanga took over from Melanie Streicher as the case worker for Vusi.
www.spoilt-for-choice.com /cofi/vusi.htm   (529 words)

  
 SABCnews.com - south_africa/crime1justice
Two men will appear in court in today in connection with the disappearance of a 26-year-old Mpumalanga school teacher almost six months ago.
Human remains, found yesterday near KwaMhlanga, will be sent for forensic testing to determine if they match the DNA of Rose Mabona's family members.
Mabona went missing from her from her house in KwaMhlanga on January 2.
www.sabcnews.com /south_africa/crime1justice/0,2172,104575,00.html   (86 words)

  
 BRAIN - Success story - November/December2004   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
On 6 November 2004, Brain and Ikwekwezi FM launched Shikisha Tyre and Rubber at KwaMhlanga, Mpumalanga, in the presence of more than 250 people.
Early in 2004, Brain and Ikwekwezi FM, with listeners of about 2m in Mpumalanga, Limpopo and Gauteng, entered into a relationship to provide regular information on entrepreneurship and other socially important matters in the mornings from Monday - Friday.
On two occasions Brain was requested to make presentations on franchising to members of the group.
www.brain.org.za /success/2004/successnov.html   (305 words)

  
 SABCnews.com - south_africa/general
The KwaMhlanga Licencing Authority in Mpumalanga has been re-opened.
The center was re-opened by Dullah Omar, the Transport Minister, and Ndaweni Mahlangu, the Mpumalanga Premier.
"There were many stations around the country that were plagued by corruption, not just KwaMhlanga, so we saw the need to bring about a new structure," said Mahlangu.
www.sabcnews.com /south_africa/general/0,2172,70106,00.html   (179 words)

  
 MPUMALANGA PROVINCIAL LEGISLATURE REPORT OF THE PORTFOLIO COMMITTEE ON HEALTH, SOCIAL SERVICES, POPULATION AND ...
The Committee raised a concern that was previously raised on the ordering system used by the department, where ordering of even minor items was to be approved by the Head Office, and the system is still utilised by the Department even now.
The Committee noted that the amount allocated for Moutse will be divided to build Bhuga clinic, the second phase of the two clinics will be completed in the next financial year.
At Shongwe hospital the renovation of the OPD has started, at KwaMhlanga the hospital will be extended to accommodate hundred (100) beds, at present it is a forty (40) bedded institution.
www.mpuleg.gov.za /docs/reports/2002/health.html   (2808 words)

  
 Eskom Expo for Young Scientist   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
The Kwamhlanga Eskom Expo for Young Scientists which took place on Saturday 24 August 2002 at the Kwamhlanga Community Hall was a renowned success with over 70 projects from 30 schools that participated in this unique event.
With over 90 learners from schools in and around the Kwamhlanga region.
Eskom is committed to the development of the rural communities and women in the math's and science fields; they have therefore included two new prize categories to this event, the best female project and the best development project.
www.eskom.co.za /sponsor/young_scientists_2002/kwamhlanga_initial.htm   (229 words)

  
 IOL: Cops taken off guard duty to fight crime
In Pretoria, the project has been up and running for the past three years with more than 100 police buildings in the capital now under the protection of private security firms.
The Mpumalanga police buildings to be placed under the guard of private security companies are the crime combating units in Middelburg, Hazyview and KwaMhlanga; the police garages in Middelburg and KwaMhlanga; the Lowveld and Highveld area offices in Nelspruit and KwaMhlanga; the airwing offices in Nelspruit; and the evidence facility at Komatipoort.
National police Superintendent Leon Engelbrecht said that by doing this thousands of police officers would now be able to do what they had originally been trained to do.
www.iol.co.za /?click_id=13&art_id=vn20041202065028378C201188&set_id=   (562 words)

  
 Mom tells of anger as 'bastards' go free because her child has died of AIDS: Court delays put paid to dying teen's ...
A MOTHER has blamed Justice Minister Penuell Maduna for allowing the gang accused of raping her daughter to walk free because the girl died of AIDS before their case could go to trial.
"They treated my child as if she was a dog," Dinah Lerumo, 40, of KwaMhlanga, northeast of Pretoria, said this week of the justice system's failure to punish her dying daughter's alleged rapists.
The case, which sprang to prominence in the wake of World AIDS Day on Wednesday, has generated an angry national debate.
www.aegis.com /news/suntimes/1999/ST991201.html   (987 words)

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