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Modernisation
Kruger Park History Information: In 1991, Robbie Robinson became Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the South African National Parks Board. Robinson began the transition of the Park into the new South Africa. One of his many...
A New Era
Kruger Park History Information: Land claims, and the Makuleke (a Tsonga speaking tribe): In 1912 several Makuleke villages in the northern part of Singwidzi Game Reserve, (Pafuri area), had been relocated. Owing the scarcity of...
Harry Wolhuter
Kruger Park History Information: One of Kruger Park’s most famous stories is the 1904 saga of Harry Wolhuter (one of the Park’s first rangers). Wolhuter was riding on horseback along what is today the Lindanda Road (S35), when two...
First Warden
Kruger Park History Information: James Stevenson-Hamilton (October 2 1867 - December 10 1957) born in Scotland was the eldest of nine children. He married Hilda Cholmondeley, who was 34 years his junior. She bore...
Kruger Park Proclamation
Kruger Park History Information: The First World War delayed further progress on this matter but ironically, an antagonist initiated the first move. In March 1916, SH Coetzee, member for Lydenburg, forced the issue in the...
Game Conservation
Kruger Park History Information: In the 19th century, it was assumed that blacks were the exterminators of wildlife in the Transvaal. This was a curious assumption as visitors to the region found an abundance of wildlife before...
Transvaal Republic
Kruger Park History Information: De Cuiper was just the first of a long line of “modern” visitors to the area, but it was from other quarters that most of the new visitors came. The history of the Limpopo and Mpumalanga Provinces...
Sir Percy Fitzpatrick
Kruger Park History Information: Fitzpatrick was born in King William's Town 24 July 1862 (and died at Amanzi (Uitenhage) 24 January 1931). He was the eldest son of James Coleman Fitzpatrick, judge of the Supreme Court of the Cape...
Joao Albasini
Kruger Park History Information: Albasini was born 1 May 1813, in Lisbon, Portugal. He came to Lourenço Marques in 1831 and became a slave trader and Elephant hunter. The remains of his trading post can be found at the new...
Kruger Park History
Kruger Park History Information: The first documented occurrence of outsiders exploring this area comes from Dutchman François de Cuiper who led a Dutch East India Company expedition, in June of 1725, looking for local inhabitants...
Makahane
Kruger Park History Information: A completely different way of life is represented by the ruins of Makahane, northeast of Punda Maria, next to the Levuvhu River, and the dwelling place of the Vhalembethu. The political structure...
Masorini
Kruger Park History Information: This site is situated some 11km from the Phalaborwa Gate, on the road to Letaba. As the letters PI-NE appear on the trigonometric beacon, it was incorrectly believed to be another name for...
Thulamela
Kruger Park History Information: At sites such as Thulamela, in the north of the Park, evidence of this bustling trade still exists in the form of glass beads, Chinese porcelain, imported cloth, ivory bracelets, gold, bronze and other...
Iron Age
Kruger Park History Information: The next period of pre-history is the Iron Age, the name derived from the fact that the people of this era developed the ability to make weapons and tools from metal. These new inhabitants also...
Late Stone Age
Kruger Park History Information: Using clues left behind over the millennia, we can trace our history in southern Africa from the very beginnings of human development, some 2.5 million years ago, to the present...
Middle Stone Age
Kruger Park History Information: The Stone Age spans a lengthy period - from about 2 million years ago, to 1 800 years ago, and gets its name from the use made of simple stone tools. Divisions into early, middle and late Stone Age...
Early Stone Age
Kruger Park History Information: Using clues left behind over the millennia, we can trace our history in southern Africa from the very beginnings of human development, some 2.5 million years ago, to the present...
Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park
Kruger Park History Information: The Kruger National Park is the largest game reserve in South Africa. It is roughly the same size as Israel or Wales, and covers some 20,000 square kilometres. It extends approximately 350...
Rock Art
Kruger Park History Information: The age of rock art has been determined by using the radiocarbon method to date charcoal (carbon) from the layers from which painted and engraved stones were excavated. This method, which provides
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