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	Mthatha - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Mthatha (formerly Umtata) is the main town of the King Sabata Dalindyebo Municipality in Eastern Cape province of South Africa.
		Mthatha became the leading administrative centre of the area, having both an Anglican and Catholic cathedral.
		Mthatha has now lost its status as the home of the affluent fl people.After the end of aprtheid many businesses left the town leaving it destitute.Mthatha is ast becoming a ghost town.
	en.wikipedia.org /?title=Umtata (255 words)

	Mthatha (Umtata) - capital of the Transkei in the Eastern Cape of South Africa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Mthatha (Umtata) - capital of the Transkei in the Eastern Cape of South Africa
		Mthatha is the colourful, very African and lively centre of the region.
		Mthatha (or: Umtata), founded in 1879, was declared the capital of the Transkei, the homeland of the Xhosa.
	www.southafrica-travel.net /kwazulu/e2umtata.htm (193 words)

	umtataweb
		With unemployment upwards of 50% in the very rural villages of Mthatha the reality is that most young people must leave their homes to look for work in the cities (even though there are very few jobs there).
		Mthatha Presbytery sent a delegation of three to Donegal in May of 2004.
		The team was overwhelmed by the hospitality of their Mthatha hosts.
	www.geocities.com /donegalpbyhunger/umtataweb (1239 words)

	ANC seeks stronger local govt
		Mthatha - The African National Congress is to embark on what it calls a "sustained campaign" to strengthen local government in the coming year and over the next decade.
		The announcement was made on Saturday in a policy statement released by the organisation's national executive committee to coincide with the ANC's 93rd anniversary rally on the outskirts of Mthatha.
		The NEC said the party's national general council, a body which gathers in the interregnum between national conferences, would when it met in July have to pay "particular attention" to strengthening local government, which was critical to reconstruction and development.
	www.wheels24.co.za /News24/South_Africa/Politics/0,6119,2-7-12_1644650,00.html (492 words)

	Eastern Cape Development Corporation - News Room - EC small airports set for upgrade (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The imminent revitalisation of the province’s two smaller airports at Bhisho and Mthatha to fully operational status is on the cards, as business and government travel to the region increases.
		He said Mthatha airport had already had a 23% increase in traffic in the past year, and Bhisho’s Bulembu airport was big enough to accommodate a Boeing 747 — a failing of East London’s airport.
		However, he said that the company was keen to open a route between Mthatha and Johannesburg as an opportunity existed in both the tourism and corporate travel sectors.
	www.ecdc.co.za /media/article.asp?pageid=1043 (513 words)

	Life in Mthatha
		Mthatha wasn’t the kind of place where laptop computers are common.
		The museum is housed in the old parliament building (Mthatha was the capital of the Apartheid era Transkei homeland).
		We visited one orphanage in Mthatha that, on the day we were there, had 16 babies, including one barely a week old.
	www.standyck.com /blog/2005/02/20/LifeInMthatha (1007 words)

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		Mthatha is situated in the Eastern Cape Province, north of the provincial capital Bisho.
		Former state president Nelson Mandela was born in a small village not far from Mthatha, making him the most prominent son of this region.
		Although Mthatha is a rather deprived city, the SOS Children's Village lies in a friendly area near the international school and the university.
	www.sos-kinderdoerfer.de /images/bvimages/_2-yJ-uGL_0Y57-rY-a32-pTR.xml (373 words)

	SABCnews.com - south_africa/general
		Municipal officials have promised action early in the new year on the water shortages which have plagued Mthatha over the festive season.
		Mthatha residents are no strangers to water cuts: businesses, particularly those that depend on water, such as hairdressers and car washes, have in the past complained bitterly about the disruption they cause.
		Control of distributing water to Mthatha's King Sabata Dalindyebo local municipality (KSD) and six others was taken over from the local municipalities by OR Tambo in 2003.
	www.sabcnews.com /south_africa/general/0,2172,118617,00.html (475 words)

	eProp - Your Commercial Property MarketPlace
		Mthatha in the former Transkei will soon get a purpose-built public transport facility worth R65 million.
		Mabe said the financial benefit of ownership of the centres would economically empower the taxi industry and would assist with the orderly growth and development of the sector, adding weight to the anticipated taxi recapitalisation programme.
		Mthatha was the region's main economic hub and about 41 400 people came into the town daily.
	www.eprop.co.za /news/article.aspx?idArticle=5189 (508 words)

	Welcome to Health-e
		The death toll of people living with AIDS is increasing on a daily basis in Mthatha and the surrounding rural areas in the Eastern Cape.
		She is amongst a great number of people who have been referred from surrounding clinics to Mthatha General Hospital for antiretrovirals, BUT here is a long waiting list and she is struggling to actually receive them.
		Mthatha General Hospital is just one health care centre in the Eastern Cape that is struggling to keep up with the dispensation of ARVs.
	www.health-e.org.za /news/article_audio.php?uid=20031379 (1428 words)

	Vuku
		During the life span of this project, we have successfully built relationships with the Provincial Department of Education, especially the directorates of Curriculum Management and Development, Quality Assurance and Exams, the districts and schools.
		Subsequently, the implementation strategy was piloted in two schools, one in Mdantsane and another one in Mthatha.
		It worked well in Mthatha because five schools have been taken through the concept of whole school evaluation.
	www.itec.org.za /vuku1.htm (451 words)

	The Herald Online News
		She was allegedly part of a traffic department syndicate in Mthatha and her partner, a furniture shop employee who was also a runner for the syndicate, was arrested yesterday in Mthatha.
		A home affairs employee, Ntombencinci Khondlo, was arrested at her work place in Mthatha for defrauding the Eastern Cape social development department of R25 000 in child support grants since 2002.
		Fatyela said the operation was initially planned for three days, but had to be extended to four days because the people who were being investigated had submitted wrong addresses on their official documents, which made it difficult for them to be traced.
	www.theherald.co.za /herald/2005/06/10/news/n05_10062005.htm (314 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		MAULED and bleeding after a shark attack on the Wild Coast, a Scottburgh man watched his emergency air ambulance circling vainly above Mthatha Airport for more than one hour; unable to rescue him because no one was around to switch on the runway landing lights.
		An hour later, Vriese was stabilised at a private clinic in Mthatha by Dr Tinus Laubscher; who recommended that his wounds required specialist emergency treatment by vascular surgeons.
		The aircraft was due to land at 7.45pm, but it was dark and the landing lights were not switched on.
	www.ams.org.za /News/news67.asp (741 words)

	Madiba magic boosts Wild Coast - SouthAfrica.info
		Mandela was born and raised in the province, spending his early years in the small village of Qunu, just outside Mthatha (Umtata).
		The Nelson Mandela Museum in Mthatha is now the biggest tourist attraction in the town.
		The Mthatha museum is housed in the magnificent Bhunga Building, which has functioned as the seat of the United Transkei Territories General Council, Transkei Legislative Assembly and the Republic of Transkei Parliament during the territory's nominal independence in the apartheid era.
	www.southafrica.info /mandela/mandela-tourism-221205.htm (1014 words)

	Boy dies at circumcision school
		Mthatha - One boy has died and eight others were admitted to Mthatha general hospital after they fell ill at a circumcision school in the area, the Eastern Cape health department said on Monday.
		Health department officials went to investigate the school at Link village outside Mthatha after being informed by community members of possible problems.
		During the June/July season 23 boys died in the bush." About half those deaths were in the Libode area, east of Mthatha.
	www.cirp.org /news/sapa11-28-05 (414 words)

	Tembelihle
		It is located in Mthatha, which is in the Eastern Cape of South Africa.
		Many of these children have suffered abuse of some form, yet even with such horrific stories to tell, the children are always laughing, dancing and singing.
		Tembelihle is a very happy place, the children come together to help each other through their troubles and with Pumeza (the administrator) there to guide it really is a safe haven for many of Mthatha's neglected children.
	www.tembelihle.co.uk (259 words)

	The Herald Online News
		Saleem van Staaden, of the Mthatha Muslim Foundation, said the organisation secured more than R17-million four years ago to build a “school of excellence” which would focus mainly on teaching maths and science.
		Although there is land zoned for institutional development near Nelson Mandela Academic Hospital in Fort Gale, its owners, the Eastern Cape Development Corporation, have not decided whether to sell it to the foundation or not.
		Van Staaden said more than 90 per cent of businesspeople in Mthatha and surrounding areas were forced to send their children to East London, Durban, Ugie, Maclear and Elliot because there were very few “quality” schools in the area.
	www.theherald.co.za /herald/2005/12/08/news/n25_08122005.htm (324 words)

	Orthopaedics Overseas - South Africa Program Description
		In MThaTha, the Department of Orthopaedics consists of one board certified orthopaedic surgeon, two Senior Medical Officers, four first year Medical Officers, and one rotating intern.
		A medical school has been present in MThaTha since 1988, and there is currently a group of fifth year medical students partaking in an intensive orthopaedic course which lasts four to six weeks, with approximately ten medical students in the course at a time.
		Volunteers who are either board eligible or board certified; retired or in active practice; and those with academic appointment as well as private practice physicians are accepted for this program.
	www.hvousa.org /propop.cfm?PDID=36 (443 words)

	East Coast Radio Durban's No 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		In 2003, doctors at a private hospital in Mthatha operated to remove the infected area.
		After being examined by Kupelo's MEC Monwabisi Goqwana, himself a medical practitioner, Mandla was taken to a dermatologist, and then underwent an eight-month course of treatment at East London's government TB hospital, which killed off the infection.
		Kupelo said well-wishers had donated over R17 000 to a fund for Mandla, and one generous Mthatha businessman had paid for the boy's air tickets to Cape Town.
	www.ecr.co.za /content/view/3974/81 (706 words)

	\|\|:: RAILWAY WILL BOOST KEI BUSINESS ::\|\|
		DOING business between Mthatha and East London will be a lot easier thanks to the redevelopment of the 360km railway line linking the two cities.
		To celebrate national Car Free Day on Thursday, 20 October, the provincial department of roads and transport took guests on a train ride to the Transkei to show that the project - launched in 2003 - was well on track.
		Other benefits of a revitalised Kei railway included the strengthening of the N2 road/rail corridor to attract investment for development, and the providing of high standard, integrated road/rail transport services to customers in the region served by the railway line, the N2 road and other feeder roads.
	www.buffalocity.gov.za /news2005/oct/oct24_rail.stm (564 words)

	Bethany Place of Safety
		Bethany Place of Safety is located in a township outside Mthatha in the Eastern Cape of South Africa.
		Bethany is located in Ikwezi, a township just outside Mthatha - which is in the Eastern Cape.
		Mthatha was the old capital of the Transkei, and is dominated by the Xhosa- speaking people of South Africa.
	www.bethanyplaceofsafety.co.uk (299 words)

	Hi-tech hospital for E Cape - SouthAfrica.info
		The R500-million Nelson Mandela Academic Hospital in Mthatha in the Eastern Cape has opened its doors, boasting state-of-the-art medical facilities and the capacity to benefit at least 2.5-million rural South Africans.
		It is part of a hospital complex that includes the Mthatha General and Bedford orthopaedic hospitals and supports the medical school attached to the University of Transkei.
		Mbeki said the hospital would help to address the health needs of at least 2.5-million people in a rural region that was "formerly little more than a labour reservoir and a homeland of endemic ill-health".
	www.southafrica.info /ess_info/sa_glance/health/mandela-hospital.htm (268 words)

	SABCnews.com - politics/the_parties
		The African National Congress (ANC) is to embark on what it calls a "sustained campaign" to strengthen local government in the coming year and over the next decade.
		The announcement was made today in a policy statement released by the organisation's national executive committee to coincide with the ANC's 93rd anniversary rally on the outskirts of Mthatha.
		Speaking at a fund-raising dinner in the town last night, President Thabo Mbeki, the ANC leader, in fact joked that he did not know who the mayor of the Mthatha council was.
	www.sabcnews.co.za /politics/the_parties/0,2172,95366,00.html (678 words)

	Eastern Cape Development Corporation - News Room - Mthatha bakery rises to the occasion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		It is considered the first of its type in Mister Bread’s operating area.
		Located in Mthatha, Amendu Products’ bakery operation, Mr Bread, produces 5 000 loaves of bread an hour daily throughout the year, and generates annual revenues in excess of R100-million.
		Following the BEE transaction, the remaining 70 per cent of the equity will be effectively held by the founders of the business, Chris Vafiades and John Pitsiladis or their nominees.
	www.ecdc.co.za /media/article.asp?pageid=878 (334 words)

	Paulsen
		He would then come here to us in Mthatha, SouthAfrica from Feb. 12th to the end of Feb., hopefully joining us for our Provincial Chapter which will be at Mariannhill, beginning on the evening of the 27th and ending in the afternoon of the 28th of Feb.
		Prior to the beginning of the retreat (that is in the afternoon), there will be a pre-election meeting preparing for the provincial council and the elections which will be part of the PC.
		He is also taking advantage of this time to familiarize himself with the affairs of the Mthatha community there in Kenya.
	www.mariannhill.de /dcms/sites/cmm/provinzen/umtata/rundbriefe/paulsen.html (1933 words)

	Dispatch Online - Your premier Eastern Cape news site
		YANDISA Mfeya is the CEO of the Mthatha Hospital Complex and a councillor in the King Sabata Dalindyebo Municipality.
		He is confident that Mthatha and its people have a bright future.
		Ndudula Street in the heart of the oldest township in Mthatha, Ngangelizwe.
	www.dispatch.co.za /2005/11/17/Easterncape/byandi.html (388 words)

	Umtata, South Africa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Before the Voortrekker era, the Mthatha River was regarded as the boundary between the Tembu and Pando tribes who were amongst the earliest people in the area.
		The nearby Mthatha River is said to have received its name from the number of Thathe or Sneezewood trees, which flourish along its banks.
		A notably treacherous river when it floods, another theory suggests that the name derives from the word thatha (taker), owing to the damage and fatalities caused by the flooding river.
	www.go2africa.com /south-africa/wild-coast/umtata (284 words)

	Weekend Post: News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		“The suspects arrested so far are mostly from Mthatha, but we are working on syndicates from PE all the way along the coast in both directions,” said operations commander for Operation Fast Lane, Superintendent Anil Bramdutt.
		He said the unit was “working around the clock to bring down syndicates” and that they were targeting both suspects and stolen vehicles as part of their investigation.
		Police spokesman Superintendent Mzukisi Fatyela said police had noticed a slight increase in the Mthatha area in motor theft, which resulted in Operation Fast Lane, but said statistics were not yet available.
	www.weekendpost.co.za /main/2005/09/17/news/nl07_17092005.htm (655 words)

	SABCnews.com - south_africa/health
		A burst water pipe in Mthatha is still affecting various settlements in the Eastern Cape.
		Sections of the hospital, such as the intesive care and theatre units, are in dire need of water.
		Mthatha ran dry on December 16 after the water level in the drought-affected Mthatha Dam dropped below the intake level for the treatment works.
	www.sabcnews.com /south_africa/health/0,2172,118644,00.html (137 words)

	Dispatch Online - Your premier Eastern Cape news site
		Saleem van Staaden, of the Mthatha Muslim Foundation, said the organisation secured more than R17m four years ago to build a "school of excellence" which will focus mainly on teaching maths and science.
		The matter was brought to the attention of the Daily Dispatch a day after the Public Service Accountability Monitor released a report saying the Eastern Cape Education Department was in need of R15 billion to roll back its infrastructure backlog.
		Van Staaden said over 90 percent of business people in Mthatha and environs were forced to send their children to East London, Durban, Ugie, Maclear and Elliot as there were very few "quality" schools in the area.
	www.dispatch.co.za /2005/12/07/Easterncape/bland.html (511 words)

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