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Sanparks

SANParks aims to alleviate poverty in WC with community social legacy programme

By Dominic Majola

SANParks has gifted a group of pensioners from Wilderness Heights on the Garden Route with food gardening tools and the relevant licences to fish.

  • 'Recovery will continue for years' - 1 year after devastating CT fires

    On 18 April 2021, a devastating fire caused major destruction in parts of Cape Town, destroying historic buildings such as the Rhodes Memorial Restaurant and the University of Cape Town’s Jagger Library. It’s been exactly a year since then - this is how the recovery is looking. #CTFires

    35 days ago
  • The remnants of the Rhodes Memorial Restaurant and Tea Room a year after a fire on Table Mountain that started on 18 April 2021 left the heritage site gutted. Picture: Kaylynn Palm/Eyewitness News

    A year after devastating Table Mountain fire, recovery expected to take years

    On 18 April 2021, hundreds of firefighters and a range of emergency services flocked to parts of Table Mountain where an "out of control" fire was burning.

    35 days ago
  • FILE: A rhino in the Kruger National Park. Picture: 123rf.com

    SANParks concerned about number of rhinos being killed in Kruger National Park

    This follows the release of a report last week by the Department of Forestry, Fisheries, and Environment confirming that seven rhino had been killed in the park recently.

    152 days ago
  • Handcuffs. Picture: @SAPoliceService/Twitter.

    Man arrested on Signal Hill for being in possession of dangerous weapon, drugs

    The special group of rangers operates on Lions Head, Tafelberg Road, Signal Hill, and Table Mountain to ensure the safety of visitors, especially during the festive season.

    161 days ago
  • Generic rhino horn, rhino poaching. Picture: @SAPoliceService/Twitter.

    Rhino cow euthanised after being shot and mutilated: SANParks

    SANParks said bullet wounds were visible in her head and foreleg and there were open wounds to her nasal cavity where her horn had been brutally hacked off.

    162 days ago
  • The Kruger National Park. Picture: @SANParksKNP/Twitter

    SANParks bracing for booking cancellations in wake of Omicron emergence

    Omicron is believed to be behind the latest spike in coronavirus infections, especially in Gauteng.

    175 days ago
  • Elephants at a water hole in the Addo Elephant National Park in the Eastern Cape. Picture: Kaylynn Palm/Eyewitness News

    Addo Elephant Park ready to welcome visitors during free SANParks week

    It's the 16th annual SANParks Week, and South Africans will have free access to the Addo, Table Mountain, Kruger and the Tsitsikamma section of the Garden Route National Park.

    182 days ago
  • Picture: somchai999/123rf.com

    Kruger National Park's Lower Sabie filling station completely gutted after fire

    Management at the Kruger National Park has confirmed that a filling station at the Lower Sabie camp has burnt down after it was struck by lightning on Sunday.

    189 days ago
  • Inside UCT's Jagger Reading Room that was gutted by a fire on 18 April 2021. Picture: Shamiela Fisher/Eyewitness News.

    CT authorities offer R10,000 reward for info on destructive April fire

    The City of Cape Town's JP Smith said that the reward could be increased.

    332 days ago
  • Firefighters leave an area where the flames become too aggressive, as a forest fire burns out of control on the foothills of Table Mountain, above the University of Cape Town, in Cape Town, on 18 April 2021. Picture: Rodger Bosch/AFP

    April's Table Mountain fire did not start naturally, investigation finds

    Independent investigator Rob Erasmus said that his probe found that the fire did not start naturally or accidentally.

    333 days ago
  • An elephant crosses in Kruger National Park. Picture: Abigail Javier/EWN.

    MY TAKE: Nothing could have prepared me for the Kruger National Park

    Dominic Majola writes that the early morning sound of hyenas in the Kruger was a wake-up call that made it very real for her that humans are not the only ones occupying planet Earth.

    343 days ago
  • This picture taken in Cape Town on 18 April 2021 shows a fire-fighting helicopter picking up water from a reservoir to help extinguish a forest fire burning out of control on the foothills of Table Mountain, above the University of Cape Town. Picture: Rodger Bosch/AFP

    Restoration work continues on Table Mountain after fire - SANParks

    Restoration work has concluded in some parts of the national park, which means some areas are ready to reopen.

    346 days ago
  • FILE: The section is one of three that remain closed to the public following last month's Table Mountain blaze. Picture: 123rf.com

    SANParks ranger getting counselling after attacked by cyclists in Newlands

    The official at the Newlands picnic site was insulted, racially abused and pelted with stones after cyclists demanded entry to a cordoned-off section earlier this month.

    362 days ago
  • Picture: @SANParks/Twitter

    SANParks calls for attacks on rangers to end after CT incident

    Earlier this month, an official at the Newlands picnic site was insulted, racially abused and stoned by cyclists demanded entry to a cordoned-off section.

    363 days ago
  • FILE: South African National Parks (SANParks) CEO Fundisile Mketeni. Picture: www.sanparks.org

    SANPArks board: We take sexual assault claims against CEO Mketeni seriously

    The organisation confirmed on Tuesday that Fundisile Mketeni had been placed on special leave following recent claims.

    376 days ago
  • FILE: South African National Parks (SANParks) CEO Fundisile Mketeni. Picture: www.sanparks.org

    SANParks CEO takes special leave over sexual assault allegations

    SANParks board chairperson, Joanne Yawitch, said that in line with SANParks' commitment to ethical conduct and the seriousness of the allegations, Mketeni has requested to take special leave until the matter has been resolved and the law has taken its course.

    377 days ago
  • FILE: An elephant crosses the road in Kruger National Park. Picture: Abigail Javier/Eyewitness News.

    Elephants 'trample' rhino poacher to death at Kruger National Park

    Rangers on routine patrol spotted three poachers who ran into the elephant herd while trying to flee.

    399 days ago
  • A view of Kalk Bay in the Silvermine Nature Reserve. Picture: EWN

    Body of man (69) who disappeared while hiking at Silvermine found

    A body was discovered floating in the Silvermine Dam earlier on Saturday.

    422 days ago
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