Kruger Magazine

A celebration of Africa’s GREATER KRUGER!

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SETTING the SCENE
Whether the shifting rainfall season can be attributed to climate change, needs to be researched further, but we still had some rain showers late in July, which is unusual for the Kruger Lowveld. The Lowveld is not as dry as we are used to this time
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The World-renowned Kruger National Park
Is one of the largest game reserves in Africa. It covers an area of nearly two million hectares (20 000km2) in the province of Limpopo and Mpumalanga in the north-east of South Africa. It extends 360km from north to south and 65km from east to west.
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Publisher: Pat Botha Editor: Quintus Strauss PRODUCTION TEAM Erika Alberts Meldt van der Spuy Aletta Pretorius-Thiart Ronelle Oosthuizen Martin Botha Tanya Lacey LAYOUT & DESIGN Carmen le Roux EDITORIAL CONTRIBUTORS Pat Botha Quintus Strauss Ray Moor
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From The Publisher's Pen
September is KRUGER MAGAZINE’S birthday and this year we celebrate our efforts and joy for the fifth time! What a wonderful five years and what awesome people we met, places we visited and experiences we had. We are privileged and grateful to have be
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My Meeting With KENNETH NEWMAN
My father was a hostel manager at the time when Simon (an employee) arrived with this rather stressed and beautiful young eagle. Simon was probably familiar with eagles while growing up around Bushbuckridge, leading him to carefully picking up the bi
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Secretive Pafuri
We have visited the northern Kruger National Park (KNP) quite extensively, but the old-time feel of Pafuri Border Camp is well-worth adding to your bucket list. Located at the border of three countries, the camp’s early history is that of labour recr
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My First Visit To Greater Kruger
My first visit to the Kruger National Park happened to be in 1977. That trip was the beginning of a lifelong love affair with the Park. We enjoyed a winter family holiday in the Lowveld with a visit to the Kruger being the highlight of this road trip
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Game Drives
With the border camp filled with a rich history, so too, is the area. The name Crooks Corner is believed to be derived from the corner where unscrupulous characters could evade the law on so-called ‘no man’s land’, where South Africa, Zimbabwe and Mo
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Porcupines Prickly Customers
There are many species of porcupine worldwide that are separated into two geographical groups. The OldWorld porcupines are found in Italy, Asia and most of Africa. They are large, terrestrial and strictly nocturnal. Taxonomically, they form the famil
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Temporary Wetlands Of The North
Conservation project sponsored by KRUGER MAGAZINE's KRUGER BIRD CHALLENGE Conservation Project sponsored by KRUGER MAGAZINE’s KRUGER PARK CHALLENGE The Kruger National Park (KNP) is an expansive conservation area characterised by the presence of a mu
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CUCKOOS Not Model Parents!
Cuckoos are birds in the family Cuculidae, which worldwide also includes species such as the roadrunners, koels, malkohas, couas, coucals and anis. There are 33 genera with 147 known species. The subfamily Cuculinae are the cuckoos of the Old World (
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Mahlometela
To ensure an understanding of the effects of management interventions, i.e., water hole provision, management fires, and culling, including natural phenomena such as disease outbreaks, wildlife managers need to conduct annual game counts of the vario
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Paperbark Thorn
The paperbark thorn, Vachellia (previously Acacia) sieberiana var. woodii, is a medium to large (18m) deciduous tree, usually with a magnificent, flat-topped, spreading crown, which sometimes can be round - a ‘characteristic’ tree of Africa. It is fa
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TOP 10 AMATEUR photographs
THEME GRAZERS and BROWSERS Our Spring competition had us at the edge of our seats when the top 50’s race for the most votes started as soon as the announcement was made. The last two days of the competition had us challenging each other for our perso
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Mountain Zebra National Park Revisited
It’s been ages since we visited the Mountain Zebra National Park near the little Eastern Cape Karoo town of Cradock. All I really remember from our last visit was seeing a few very distant Cape mountain zebras on a vast plain overlooking distant, haz
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KNP HISTORY: History Of Camps
» Berg-en-Dal (25,428083S 31,444307E) – in amongst the mountains In Issue 20 of KRUGER MAGAZINE, we featured the history of Mopani. In this issue we look at the history of Berg-en-Dal Camp. Joep Stevens is a keen historian who was introduced to the K
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Extraordinary AEROTEL
For many ‘long-haul’ travellers trying to get some sleep on a plane is the least enjoyable part of their trip, except for those few that can afford first-class travel. There are hundreds of tips online on how to make it as comfortable as possible, in
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The Shingwedzi River
Asked which is their favourite rest camp in the Kruger National Park (KNP), many will immediately respond with Shingwedzi. This is not strange given the large trees, the open sandy riverbanks, the waterholes and just the all-pervasive tranquillity of
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Favourite Spots
Whether your FAVOURITE SPOT is related to a memorable sighting, or special to you for personal or sentimental reasons, or even an area you feel connected to, all KRUGER MAGAZINE Facebook members are invited to share their favourite spots with the com

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