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Mine Workers
Kruger Park History Information: With the help of the government's taxes, the 'runners' and many of the chiefs, WNLA managed to set up a more efficient system of recruiting labour for the mines...
Von Wiellighs Camp
Kruger Park History Information: There is even an historical Baobab tree near the confluence of the Olifants and Letaba Rivers (near Olifant's Restcamp), where GR Von Wielligh and company set up their camp number 19. Von Wielligh...
Harold Trollope
Kruger Park History Information: Malelane Restcamp has a hut named for Harold Trollope, a big game hunter and one of the original owners of the Camelthorn Reserve, who was actively involved in the early development of both the...
Struben Cottage
Kruger Park History Information: The historical Struben Family Cottage in Skukuza is named for the Struben brothers, Fred and Harry. They arrived in South Africa from Germany in about 1840, with the idea of becoming gold...
Stols Nek
Kruger Park History Information: An early family to be associated with the area were the Stols'. They were famous hunters and wagon makers from the White River area, during the two decades before the Second Boer War. One such...
Prospectors Graves
Kruger Park History Information: Skukuza Restcamp is also home to some Prospector's graves. Many of the graves from the gold rush days are unnamed. Most face east to west but some face north to south. The latter are the graves of...
Thomas Hart
Kruger Park History Information: The somewhat rough and ready times of the Trade Route, are also remembered at Thomas Hart's grave. Hart was a 'stationmaster' on trade route to Delagoa Bay. He died on 22 August 1876 at...
Sardellis Store
Kruger Park History Information: Sardelli's store is another such ruin. Sardelli was a trader who ran a shack in the Lebombo near the Zenga-Zenga Mountain. He brewed and sold an intoxicating drink made from the fruit of the marula...
Alf Roberts
Kruger Park History Information: One such reminder is on the Crocodile River, and is known to be Alf Roberts' trade store. Today its site is marked by a couple of mounds and a few broken bottles, lingering wistfully on as a memory...
Engelhard Dam
Kruger Park History Information: The Engelhard Dam is a large concrete weir in the Letaba River, east of the Letaba Restcamp, and is named for an American millionaire businessman, Charles Engelhard, who donated funds to the...
Joe Ludorf
Kruger Park History Information: Plaques were clearly a popular means of commemoration, as can be attested by the Joe Ludorf plaque (at Napi Kop). Ludorf was a staunch nationalist and sometime chairperson of the National Parks...
Kruger Memorial
Kruger Park History Information: Naturally, Paul Kruger is, himself, memorialised at the Park, both with the Kruger Monument (at the Kruger Gate), and the Kruger memorial tablet. The latter is to commemorate the foundation of...
Rabelais Gate
Kruger Park History Information: The Original hut at Rabelais' gate is still preserved. This was the original entrance gate to the central region, on to the old Orpen road to the east of the N'wamatsatsa Drift. The Hut is 9...
JH Orpen
Kruger Park History Information: JH Orpen, a surveyor and member of the National Parks Board helped sponsor boreholes for the park. His wife Eileen bought up seven farms immediately to the west of Rabelais gate during...
W.A. Campbell
Kruger Park History Information: An example of this is Council member W.A. Campbell, who once owned the Mala Mala farm on the Game Reserve border. He donated an amount of R 300-00 for a rest cottage in 1929. He made several...
William Lloyd
Kruger Park History Information: Another casualty of the times was William Lloyd, Ranger at Satara in 1920. Satara was so remote in those days it could only be reached on foot or horse back. Lloyd, his young wife, and three small...
Leonard Henry Ledeboer
Kruger Park History Information: Another place of recent historical interest is Ranger Ledeboer's quarters. Leonard Henry Ledeboer came from Holland as a young man in 1888. He hunted elephants with such well-known characters...
Dukes Windmill
Kruger Park History Information: Perhaps as an acknowledgement of the importance of water, Duke's windmill, was also named after one of Kruger National Park's earliest rangers, Tom Duke. He was was based at Lower Sabie between...
De Laportes Windmill
Kruger Park History Information: De Laporte's Windmill is situated approximately 7 kilometres from Skukuza on the Naphe Road to Pretoriuskop. It too, (perhaps surprisingly) was named a former Park Ranger...
The Future
Kruger Park History Information: What is the next step for the new SANParks? The Former Chief Executive, Mr Mavuso Msimang: “...our corporate plan, which was developed and approved by the Board recently, clearly states that 'we...
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