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  Mpumalanga Travel Guide, South Africa
Mpumalanga, formerly known as the Eastern Transvaal, is one of
People are drawn by the magnificent scenery, by the fauna and flora and by the saga of the 1870s gold rush era and a wealth of fascinating tribal legends.
Nelspruit today is the capital of Mpumalanga, the commercial and administrative hub of the Lowveld, and the centre of a vast citrus-growing region.
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  Mpumalanga - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Mpumalanga, (name changed from Eastern Transvaal on 24 August 1995), is a province in South Africa.
Mpumalanga lies in eastern South Africa, north of KwaZulu-Natal and bordering Swaziland and Mozambique.
The Mpumalanga Province's legislation is an amalgam of national and regional legislation promulgated prior to the establishment of the Province on 27 April 1994, and legislation which it has itself promulgated since it came into existence.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mpumalanga_Province   (683 words)

  
 Mpumalanga
The province of Mpumalanga is located in the north eastern part of South Africa, and is bordered by Mozambique to the east and the Kingdom of Swaziland to the south and east.
Mpumalanga also shares common borders with the Northern Province to the north, Gauteng to the west, the Free State to the south west and KwaZulu-Natal to the south east.
Mpumalanga is an all year round destination, with the climate and topography varying from cool highland grasslands at 1 600 metres above sea level, through to the middleveldt and escarpment and the sub-tropical Lowveld.
www.southafricantours.co.za /Places/Mpumalanga/Mpumalanga.htm   (1029 words)

  
 Mpumalanga Accommodation | Kruger Park Accommodation, South Africa
Mpumalanga is one of South Africa's top tourist destinations.
Mpumalanga is aptly know as "Paradise Country" and few regions in the world can match the extraordinary beauty of the Lowveld and escarpment.
To find accommodation in Mpumalanga please use the Search by Mpumalanga Town or Search by Lodge Name links which are to the left on all of the pages of this Mpumalanga Accommodation site.
www.mpumalanga-venues.co.za   (520 words)

  
 Armoria patriæ - Mpumalanga Province
Mpumalanga is also known for a large number of bodies of still water, most of them dams – such as the Loskop, on the Olifants River, the Grootdraai, on the Vaal, the two Doringpoort dams at Witbank – but also a series of lakes, notably Lake Chrissie at the town of Chrissiesmeer, south of Carolina.
Mpumalanga’s claiming of the symbol is appropriate, because this species is not entirely at home on the Highveld, and has to be protected against frost in Gauteng gardens.
The coalfields of the Eastern Highveld (western Mpumalanga) are among the world’s richest.
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 Leana Nel International Relocations - Mpumalanga   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Mpumalanga is a province of two halves, namely the high-lying grassland savannah of the highveld escarpment and the subtropical Lowveld plains.The western side of Mpumalanga, on the highveld escarpment, is like a rise of tropics, an ascent into an uncompromising range of temperatures.
Nelspruit, the capital city of Mpumalanga, lies at the edge of the Lowveld near the Kruger National Park, and enjoys relatively plentiful summer rainfall (an average of around 620 mm falls between September and March) and mild to hot subtropical conditions in the Kruger National Park.
Mpumalanga means "place where the sun rises", and this is well suited, as Mpumalanga is the eastern most province of South Africa.
www.propertiessouthafrica.com /mpumalanga.php   (1256 words)

  
 IOL: Mpumalanga
Mpumalanga police are searching for eight men who poured methylated spirits on three children and threatened to set them alight during a farm robbery in the western town of Sundra this weekend.
Mpumalanga police have arrested a 29-year-old man in connection with the death of a Volksrust woman whose semi-naked and mutilated body was found this week.
Mpumalanga police are searching for a 35-year-old Secunda man who shot and killed his wife before turning the gun on his two children after they issued a protection order against him.
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 Welcome to Health-e
Provincial health officials in Mpumalanga and Limpopo may be in contempt of court after refusing to provide the anti-AIDS drug nevirapine to certain hospitals that want to offer it to HIV positive mothers and their newborn babies.
Mpumalanga has the second highest HIV/AIDS rate in the country, and 45% of pregnant women who agreed to take an HIV test at the province's PMTCT pilot site at Shongwe Hospital were HIV positive.
However, Mpumalanga reported recently to parliament that it had not spent R59-million of its health budget, and had not spent a cent on prevention of mother-to-child transmission or home-based care.
www.health-e.org.za /news/article.php?uid=20020517   (1273 words)

  
 Mpumalanga City Guide - South Africa
Mpumalanga is not a highly developed province with large cities and towns - instead, visitors to the province are brought closer to nature.
Ermelo is one of the larger towns in Mpumalanga, center for a district where comprehensive mixed farming is practiced and a stop-over en-route to KwaZulu Natal.
Main agricultural centre in western Mpumalanga on the banks of the Vaal River close to the Grootdraai Dam.
www.places.co.za /html/mpumalanga_cities.html   (477 words)

  
 Brief history of the name of the Province, Mpumalanga   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Mpumalanga Province is one of the nine provinces of the Republic of South Africa, established in terms of the Interim Constitution of 1993.
The Mpumalanga Provincial Legislature established a multi-party ad-hoc committee in June 1995 to solicit public opinion on the change of the name of the province, Eastern Transvaal, which was associated with the former apartheid province, Transvaal and a history of colonial conquest.
Mpumalanga means 'Place where the sun rises', and is bordered by Mozambique and Swaziland in the east, and Gauteng in the west.
www.mpuleg.gov.za /about/historymain.html   (2279 words)

  
 Accommodation Mpumalanga. Accommodation Mpumalanga South Africa
Mpumalanga, also known as 'the place of the rising sun' in the local SiSwati language, has a broad spectrum of cultures, landscapes and attractions to offer.
The capital of Mpumalanga is Nelspruit, which is located in the heart of the Lowveld in the Crocodile River Valley.
Another of Mpumalanga's best-kept secrets is in the village of Chrissiesmeer in the central grasslands district.
www.roomsforafrica.com /dest/south-africa/mpumalanga.jsp   (320 words)

  
 Southern Africa Accommodation - Mpumalanga Accommodation
The capital of Mpumalaga is Nelspruit a town situated 446 km due east of Johannesburg.
No-one need wonder why Mpumalanga (the former Eastern Transvaal) is one of South Africa’s top tourist destination.
Some people are drawn by the magnificent scenery, others by the fauna and flora, and yet others by the saga of the 1870,s gold rush era and a wealth of fascinating tribal legends.
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 Mpumalanga Province: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Mpumalanga lies in the east of South Africa[Click link for more facts about this topic], EHandler: no quick summary.
Sabie is a forestry town situated on the banks of the sabie river in mpumalanga, south africa....
Secunda is a fairly new town built around coalfields in mpumalanga provincempumalanga, south africa....
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 Nelspruit - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
It is the capital of the Mpumalanga province (formerly Eastern Transvaal).
Located on the Crocodile River (known as the Krokodil in Afrikaans), Nelspruit lies 60 kilometres (37 miles) west of the Mozambique border and 330 kilometres (205 miles) east of Johannesburg.
The city has one airport, Kruger Mpumalanga International Airport, which is used primarily for flights from and to Johannesburg.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nelspruit   (311 words)

  
 Mpumalanga, South Africa
Although Mpumalanga is not the only province in South Africa with excellent game viewing, national parks and luxury lodges, it's here that the safari experience has been perfected.
Like Limpopo Province to its immediate north, Mpumalanga straddles the escarpment between the Lowveld and the Drakensberg, so the different parts of the province have different characters.
The Lowveld is hot and humid with broad-leaved forests and wide, slow rivers, while the Highlands are cool and green, with rolling grasslands, pine plantations, pockets of indigenous forest and cheerfully gurgling mountain streams and waterfalls.
www.safarinow.com /destinations/mpumalanga/hub.aspx   (626 words)

  
 Mpumalanga | Mpumalanga | Country Info | South Africa
Mpumalanga, which means "Land of the Rising Sun" in the local SiSwati language, has it all - from exhilarating wildlife, to secluded mountain retreats, ancient ruined cities, wild water sports, and some of South Africa's most diverse and vibrant African cultures.
All of it begs to be explored, from rolling highlands to the lofty escarpment and lush wetlands.
Mpumalanga is one of the premier gameviewing areas in all of Africa, where you are introduced to the sights, sounds and textures of an eco-system which has survived the threat of human encroachment and become one of the world's most treasured nature preserves.
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 Kruger National Park, Mpumalanga :: South Africa
Mpumalanga is often visited simply for its scenic beauty, yet it is also home to the world-renowned Kruger National Park.
On arrival at Kruger Mpumalanga International Airport (KMIA) a CC Africa representative will welcome you and transfer you by road to the country retreat of your choice.
In the Mpumalanga Province, the Drakensberg Mountains divide the cooler Highveld to the west from the lower coastal plains to the east.
www.afroventures.com /destinations/south_africa/itineraryreplcca/id~MPS005   (508 words)

  
 Information about Mpumalanga in South Africa   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Mpumalanga is a lush, landlocked province, filled with deep ravines, verdant valleys, crystal-clear streams, magnificent waterfalls and plenty of wildlife.
Animals move at will through the various biospheres, and this reserve is world renowned for having the greatest diversity of species in Africa - more than 140 mammal species, 500 bird species and more than 300 different tree species, including baobabs, marulas and mopanes.
Mpumalanga is very fertile and there are many huge plantations growing produce ranging from avocado pears to citrus, which has made agri-tourism popular.
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 Mpumalanga,Mpumalanga Province Hotels,Luxury Accommodation Mpumalanga,South Africa
Mpumalanga (the ‘land of the rising sun’) covers the highveld plains and mountains from Gauteng to the borders with Swaziland and Mozambique.
This is one of the key tourist destinations in South Africa, home, with Limpopo, to the world-famous Kruger National Park, a massive reserve the size of Wales and among the best places in Africa to see the ‘Big Five’, as well as thousands of other species.
Nelspruit is the capital of the province of Mpumalanga.
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 T Makwetla: Mpumalanga State of the Province Address
As the administration of this province we address this august body today, in the wake of a watershed development in the endeavour of the people of this province to rid themselves of the burden of underdevelopment and poverty, the Badplaas Growth and Development Summit on the 7th and 8th of February 2005.
We have continuously observed that Mpumalanga is a province with immense potential but is facing numerous challenges in translating this potential into a competitive platform for growth and sustainable human development.
The Mpumalanga Initiation Schools Bill, 2005, which Bill provides for the regulation of the holding of initiation schools within the Province, has also been prepared and will similarly be published for public comment, prior to the introduction of the said Bill in the Provincial Legislature, for consideration.
www.info.gov.za /speeches/2005/05021811451001.htm   (5874 words)

  
 Mpumalanga Accommodation - 45 Accommodation Listings in Mpumalanga South Africa
Mpumalanga (the place where the sun rises) used to be known as the Eastern Transvaal.
Mpumalanga Accommodation in Waterval Onder, Mpumalanga, South Africa
In a private valley on the edge of the malaria-free Mpumalanga escarpment, Heysbrook offers well appointed bedrooms, each with double outdoor shower, mini bar and private deck, with fireplaces in the bedrooms and in most bathrooms.
www.portfoliocollection.com /destinations/mpumalanga   (734 words)

  
 Map of Mpumalanga - South Africa
Mpumalanga is a province of impressive gorges, waterfalls, forests, and the natural home of the "Big Five".
Game Parks and conservation areas are scattered about the province, including the world famous Kruger National Park.
The map of Mpumalanga gives you the opportunity to explore some of the towns in the province.
www.places.co.za /maps/mpumalanga_map.html   (51 words)

  
 Mpumalanga Accommodation - South Africa Accommodation in Mpumalanga
Mpumalanga, is one of South Africa’s tourism hotspots, loved by both local and international visitors for its beauty and diversity.
- (Waterval-Boven Accommodation) - The Black Eagle Retreat is situated in the picturesque Elands River Valley in the shadow of the Drakensberg mountains and surrounded by the stunning scenery and attractions of Mpumalanga.
It is ideally situated on the Mpumalanga Escarpment with a stunning view over the Graskop Gorge and Lowveld.
www.mpumalanga-africaninvitation.co.za   (803 words)

  
 South Africa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Other major political parties represented in Parliament are the Inkatha Freedom Party, which mainly represents Zulu voters, and the Independent Democrats, who took 6.97% and 1.7% of the vote respectively in the 2004 election.
When apartheid ended in 1994, the South African government had to integrate the formerly independent and semi-independent Bantustans into the political structure of South Africa.
Workers planting on a farm in the central area of Mpumalanga.
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