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    KNP HISTORY:   The beginning years

    Mar 16, 2018 5 minutes
    by Joep Stevens

    « Joep Stevens is a keen historian who was introduced to the Kruger National Park by his parents in 1966. This ignited his interest in and passion for the Park.

    » Part 3: From 1926 to 1954

    From sanctuaries (game reserves) to a National Park

    With the fledgling Kruger National Park having just been proclaimed under the Minister of Lands in the Union government (it had reported to the Transvaal Province), a national park philosophy, as we know it today, did not exist. It had to be formed over the many decades that followed. With this transition (from provincial game reserve to national park), employees were retrenched. The then warden, James Stevenson-Hamilton, was requested to stay on and it was quite a change as he now had to report to the Board of Trustees. He disliked.

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