kwaNgwanase, also known as Kosi Bay Town, is a small town in Umkhanyakude District Municipality in the

KwaZulu-Natal KwaZulu-Natal (, also referred to as KZN and known as "the garden province") is a province of South Africa that was created in 1994 when the Zulu bantustan of KwaZulu ("Place of the Zulu" in Zulu) and Natal Province were merged. It is locate ...

province of

South Africa South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa. It is bounded to the south by of coastline that stretch along the South Atlantic and Indian Oceans; to the north by the neighbouring countri ...

. It is located some 15 km south of the

Mozambique–South Africa border The border between Mozambique and South Africa is divided into two segments, separated by the kingdom of Eswatini. The northern segment, which is long, runs north–south along the Lebombo Mountains from Zimbabwe to Eswatini. The southern seg ...

, and is situated near

Kosi Bay Kosi Bay is a series of four interlinked lakes in the Maputaland area of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Ecology The lakes form part of the iSimangaliso Wetland Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The closest town is Manguzi, some away from it. K ...

Communications

The Manguzi Wireless Internet is a project that provides Internet access, e-mail and learning resources to schools where no telecommunications infrastructure exists utilising a unique combination of radio and satellite broadcasting technologies.

Healthcare

Manguzi Hospital, founded by the Methodist Church in 1948, is a 280-bed District (level 1)

hospital A hospital is a health care institution providing patient treatment with specialized health science and auxiliary healthcare staff and medical equipment. The best-known type of hospital is the general hospital, which typically has an emerge ...

, managed by the

Department of Health.Manguzi Hospital
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References

Populated places in the Umhlabuyalingana Local Municipality {{KwaZuluNatal-geo-stub