kwaNgwanase, also known as Kosi Bay Town, is a small town in

Umkhanyakude District Municipality The uMkhanyakude District Municipality () is the northernmost of the 11 districts of the KwaZulu-Natal province of South Africa. Its seat is Mkuze. It is a very rural district, the largest town being Mtubatuba in the south, with Hluhluwe, Mkuze ...

in the

KwaZulu-Natal KwaZulu-Natal (, also referred to as KZN) is a Provinces of South Africa, province of South Africa that was created in 1994 when the government merged the Zulu people, Zulu bantustan of KwaZulu ("Place of the Zulu" in Zulu language, Zulu) and ...

province of

South Africa South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the Southern Africa, southernmost country in Africa. Its Provinces of South Africa, nine provinces are bounded to the south by of coastline that stretches along the Atlantic O ...

. 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. ...

. The town is inhabited by thonga (''Amathonga'') the Bantu speaking people who flee from Shaka and settled between pongola river Jozini, South Africa and KaTembe river in Southern Mozambique.

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 healthcare institution providing patient treatment with specialized Medical Science, health science and auxiliary healthcare staff and medical equipment. The best-known type of hospital is the general hospital, which typically ...

, managed by the

Department of Health.Manguzi Hospital
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References

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