Summer 2018-2019

Kruger Magazine

A celebration of Africa’s GREATER KRUGER!

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SETTING the SCENE
Summer is here and the rainy season for the upper part of South Africa has started. This means beautiful shades of green are appearing all over the Greater Kruger region. Newborn animal babies everywhere make all our amateur photographers grab their
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From The Publisher’s Pen
Here we are – at the end of 2018. For us, this year was so blessed – being able to say that KRUGER MAGAZINE is growing with each issue, is more than we could have hoped for. Our Facebook group’s membership has exceeded the 34 000 mark now and is grow
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Favourite Spots
For non-stop action and sheer diversity of sightings, the Sunset Dam at Lower Sabie is hard to beat! Considering that the best spots for early morning photography face west to get the best light, the dam is ideally situated. An added advantage
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Feedback On Our Fourth DESERVING PROJECT Elephants Alive
This group of people have, through their studies of elephants over the past 20 years, opened our eyes to innovative ways to best manage expanding populations in fenced reserves within South Africa. The elephant has always been, and will always be, on
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Coffee at CROCODILE BRIDGE
Crocodile Bridge is a small but delightful camp. THE PARK’s SHOP is similar in character and is managed by a passionate team, led by Mariëtte Strydom. Mariëtte has dedicated 17 years to the Park and her love of all things Kruger is evident in the sho
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My First Visit To Kruger Greater
Remembering good times is awesome, but remembering that first time you did something amazing in your life is precious, and a good way to start any conversation. It is also a way of connecting with people, for enjoyable ‘first times’ are normally shar
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Timeless TALAMATI
Talamati Bushveld Camp is one of five bushveld camps of SANParks. Set on the western boundary of the Park, its nearest gate is at Orpen, about 31km to the north, and Satara rest camp about 52km away. Talamati Camp forms part of a relatively new con
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Game Drives
It is always a good idea to plan your route the night before – and make sure you pack everything you need to make a day of it. Charge your camera’s batteries and download your photographs so that you don’t run out of space on your SD-card at that cru
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CHEETAH Speed Is Not Everything
« Dr Ian John Whyte is an independent environmental consultant who retired from SANParks in 2007. He was previously engaged in full-time wildlife research in Kruger National Park from 1970-2007. At the time of retirement, he was responsible for the c
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Cheetah Photographic Census
Cheetahs have come to occupy an erroneous place in the human imagination. Most people envisage an elegant and docile predator roaming the vast open grassland plains of East Africa, casually assumed to be the conservation stronghold of the species. Th
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BARBETS Avian Property Developers
« Dr Ian John Whyte is an independent environmental consultant who retired from SANParks in 2007. He was previously engaged in full-time wildlife research in Kruger National Park from 1970-2007. At the time of retirement, he was responsible for the c
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Mahlometela
« Ralf Kalwa is an Ecological Consultant at Malelane, a position he has held since December 2001. He established Rhengu Environmental Services in the Malelane area and is trails leader for the Lebombo Eco Trail. Prior to holding this position, Ralf w
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KNOB-THORN – A Characteristic Tree Of The Kruger
« Nick Zambatis was the former Manager: Biodiversity Conservation in Conservation Management: Kruger National Park. He retired in 2016. His first job in the Kruger was as a research technician based at Skukuza, which he started in 1987. “The transfe
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TAMBUZI Awareness
Situated on the R40 between Hoedspruit and Phalaborwa in the Limpopo Province, is the Maseke Game Reserve, a relatively unknown reserve in the corner of the Balule Nature Reserve. Maseke stretches over 8 000ha in the Greater Kruger, with very few lod
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The Story Behind The Winning Photograph
At the age of six, when I first visited Satara, I enjoyed the open terrain around camp for finding predators; now, I plan Satara into most of my itineraries owing to the exquisite grassland sunset backdrops to any animal and the eternal promise of ac
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Improve Your Photography Right Now
« Roger de la Harpe is a freelance photographer based in South Africa. He has long had a passion for conservation, natural history, wild places and indigenous cultures and has plied his trade in various regions of the African continent for 25 years.
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Pristine PAFURI
RETURNAfrica’s Pafuri Camp is situated in the 26 000ha Makuleke Contractual Park, the far-most northern portion of the Kruger National Park. In 1994, which marked the end of South Africa’s apartheid era, the Makuleke people claimed back their ancestr
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HISTORY KNP : History of camps
« 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. In Issue 5 of KRUGER MAGAZINE, we looked at the maturing years of the Kruger National P
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Impala & Beautiful Graceful
« Salomon Joubert (Dr SCJ Joubert) started his conservation career in 1964 as a postgraduate student in the Sabi Sand Wildtuin, and was appointed to the Kruger National Park as Junior Ranger at the end of 1964, stationed at the remote Klipkoppies Sec
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Scorpions
« Donald Strydom runs the Kinyonga Reptile Centre, formerly known as Swadini Reptile Park, which was founded in 1984. He has been involved in the filming of approximately 50 documentaries and has worked with Sir David Attenborough. Through the Kinyo
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Our Happy Place
As lovely as the other two parts were, with Cape Town having so much to offer in its surroundings too, the Kruger stole our hearts from the moment we entered Malelane Gate that year. We love a hot summer beach holiday around June in the likes of Duba

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