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A Dictionary of Kruger National Park Place Names. Barberton: SA Country Life. ISBN 978-0-9584782-1-2. Labuschagne, R.J. (1958). 60 years Kruger Park. Pretoria: National Parks Board of Trustees of the Union of South Africa. Newman, Kenneth (1976). Pride of South Africa: Kruger National Park. Cape Town: Purnell South Africa. Smuts, G.L. (1982 ...
Kruger National Park (Afrikaans: [ˈkry.(j)ər]) is a South African national park and one of the largest game reserves in Africa.It covers an area of 19,623 km 2 (7,576 sq mi) in the provinces of Limpopo and Mpumalanga in northeastern South Africa, and extends 360 km (220 mi) from north to south and 65 km (40 mi) from east to west.
South African National Parks (SANParks) is the body responsible for managing South Africa's national parks. SANParks was formed in 1926, and currently manages 19 parks consisting of 3,751,113 hectares (37,511.13 km 2 ), [ 3 ] over 3% of the total area of South Africa.
April - Mahlangeni ranger post, situated at the confluence of the Groot Letaba and Klein Letaba Rivers, opens. [5]September 28 – An outbreak of anthrax rapidly spreads throughout the area north of the Letaba River. 101 carcasses, mainly kudu, are found and burnt before the epidemic ends in November 1959.
Engelhard Dam is a dam on the Letaba River, between the Letaba and Olifants Rest camps in the Kruger National Park, Limpopo, South Africa. [1] Its main function is to regulate water flow down the Letaba in the direction of Mozambique. The construction of the dam in the 1970s was funded by the American industrialist Charles Engelhard.
The Makuleke are a Tsonga tribe living in the Pafuri Triangle of South Africa at the confluence of the Luvuvhu river and Limpopo river in what is now the Kruger National Park. [1] The Tsonga-speaking agricultural and fishing tribe settled the area in the seventeenth century with decentralized homesteads. [2]
Thulamela is the most dramatic of around 300 archaeological sites identified in Kruger National Park. It is located on heights south of the Levubu River offering a panoramic view. Sidney Miller led excavations from December 1993 to July 1995, [ 1 ] and the site has also been partially reconstructed.
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