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Hawks seize documents for alleged R26m fraud in Eastern Cape municipality – Kirkwood

The Hawks in Eastern London, Eastern Cape, have seized documents for the alleged R26-million fraud at Nxuba Yethemba municipality in Cradock. Hawks spokesperson, Lieutenant Colonel Philani …
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Sinovuyo Salela (28) , who is implicated in the March 17 shooting of Lt Col Leroy Bruwer, was denied bail in the Nelspruit Magistrate’s Court today. ALSO READ: Lt Col Leroy Bruwer murder accused …
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Several companies were awarded tenders for road construction and for designing a community hall between 2017 and 2018.
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Quick Addo Fact: Addo features a main camp, featuring a swimming pool, restaurant, flood lit water hole and various accommodation, four other rest camps and four camps run by concessionaires. The main entrance as well as two looped tourist roads in the park are tarred while the others are graveled. There is also an additional access road through the southern block of the park feeding off the N2 highway near Colchester; it joins up with the existing tourist roads in the park.

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The number of pupils who tested positive for Covid-19 at an Eastern Cape school has risen from 98 to 102, with one teacher also testing positive. At the weekend, about 500 pupils at Ethembeni …
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Thirteen more fatalities related to Covid-19 were recorded on Sunday, bringing the death toll related to the pandemic to 15,953, the health ministry said. The Western Cape accounted for six of the …
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The Department of Basic Education in the Eastern Cape says the number of learners – to have tested positive for the coronavirus at Ethembeni High School in Burgersdorp – has risen to 102.
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Quick Addo Fact: The original Addo Elephant Park was expanded to include the Woody Cape Nature Reserve that extends from the Sundays River mouth towards Alexandria and a marine reserve, which includes St. Croix Island and Bird Island, both breeding habitat for gannets and penguins, not to mention a large variety of other marine life. Bird Island is home to the world’s largest breeding colony of gannets – about 120,000 birds – and also hosts the second largest breeding colony of African penguins, the largest breeding colony being St. Croix island. These marine assets form part of the plan to expand the 1,640 km² Addo National Elephant Park into the 3,600 km² Greater Addo Elephant National Park. The expansion will mean not only that the park contains five of South Africa’s seven major vegetation zones (biomes), but also that it will be the only park in the world to house Africa’s “Big 7“ (elephant, rhinoceros, lion, buffalo, leopard, whale and great white shark) in their natural habitat.

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Constance Galeo Mogale on racism, land reforms, food sovereignty in South Africa – Kirkwood

Constance Galeo Mogale is an experienced South African land activist who has played leading roles in several campaigns and initiatives. She led a grassroots movement called the Land Access …
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Live The Dream in this Lifestyle Village. Build your dream home on this large plot with breathtaking views of the mountains in the Crossways Farm Village. Situated in the Eastern Cape, halfway between …
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The Department of Health confirmed the cumulative number of detected COVID-19 cases is 657 627 with 2 055 new cases identified. The cumulative number of tests conducted to date is 4 003 590 with 20 …
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Quick Addo Fact: Addo is a beautiful biodiversity hotspot – Our entire country can be divided into just nine biomes (a unique ecological unit with a characteristic set of plant, animal species and climate) and Addo stretches over five of these biomes, namely the Thicket, Forest, Succulent Karoo, Fynbos and Nama Karoo, and each biome has its own sets of key species. The big goal for the park is now to consolidate the land it has and create a functional ecological unit that stretches from the Karoo all across the mountains, fynbos, forest into the thicket and down across the coastal dune system. This diversity is key to its success. Conservation Manager John Adendorff says, ‘Addo is one of the most profitable parks. There’s nothing that even comes close for its size. It runs at 98% occupancy and there are very few spikes in the year, so it’s just consistent. It’s fully booked all the time and a very difficult place to get into.’

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Reports have emerged that the Kruger National Park is not fulfilling its mandate to increase visitor numbers, and is chronically mismanaged.
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The Kruger National Park is arguably one of South Africa’s favourite game parks and has a large, closely-knit group of followers who share their passion for the beloved park and the wildlife that …
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Many have been yearning for a road trip out in the warm South African sun as a release from the cabin fever associated with the lockdown.While not doubting the love one has for family, several months …
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Quick Addo Fact: Addo is the only national park where you can hire a guide to take you around the park in your own car – A hop-on guide means that you drive and he guides, advising which routes to take and providing insight on Addo history, wildlife, botany and more. At the moment, there is only one hop-on guide in the park, but they are looking for more.

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According to a spokesperson, the first fire started at night when no staff were on the premises and so was implausible to suspect any staff were involved.
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Kruger National Park (KNP) management has confirmed that a fire broke out from the restaurant kitchen at Berg en Dal Rest Camp today, Monday 14 September 2020, at around 10h00. The fire has since been …
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Workers noticed the fire at 10:00 this morning and quickly reacted, containing the fire to the kitchen and dining hall. There were no injuries and the cause of the fire is being investigated,” he said …
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Quick Addo Fact: Sylvester the lion lives in Addo – The iconic black-maned lions of the Kalahari were introduced to Addo over ten years ago. The big reason for choosing these lions (as opposed to somewhere like Kruger) is because they are disease-free and will not affect the buffalo population, which might have otherwise caught tuberculosis. The other reason, is that these Kalahari lions are seen to be the closest match to the now-extinct Cape Lion which used to roam the Addo area. If you want to see Sylvester, the famous lion who managed to duck under the fence in the Karoo National Park, then you need to stay at Kuzuko Lodge in the northern Darlington section of Addo. Getaway was also tipped that the park is finishing adequate fencing in this section and it’ll soon be home to the Big Five.

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Much-loved elephant bull Tembe dies in Addo Elephant Park

The much-loved elephant bull Tembe in Addo Elephant National Park has died. Conservative staff didn’t pick up on his collar’s signal earlier this week …
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Quick Addo Fact: Two major environmental issues facing the AENP: extinction and overpopulation, which are interrelated. Since the AENP’s original mission was to reintroduce certain mega-herbivores, like the African elephant and black rhinoceros, primary ecological efforts were made to preserve mammalian species. However, by overlooking the other contributors to this environmental chain, certain plant species have been subjected to overgrazing and trampling, mostly by the elephants of the park. This overgrazing and trampling not only destroys much of the plant life, but also forces it to adapt its physiology to stimuli that are not inherent to its evolutionary progress. Some biologists argue that it is not herbivorization alone that is threatening the flora, but a number of other ecological factors including zoochory and nutrient cycling. Up to 77 species of South African endemic plant species have been listed as “vulnerable to elephant browsing.”

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Foster parents distraught after not receiving grants this month – Kirkwood

A number of foster parents have been going to SASSA offices in the Eastern Cape asking why their foster child grant payments have not arrived this month. Photo: Thamsanqa Mbovane 6,000 foster parents …
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Gxothiwe said she is grateful that there was no loss of life but urged farmers to take better care of their livestock and to ensure that they do not roam around sleeping on roads.
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Rates & Taxes (Per Month): R 451 EOJ26639 Local property specialists in Jeffreys Bay, Wavecrest, Aston bay and Paradise beach, Eastern Cape, South Africa. Our property consultants specialise in …
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Quick Addo Fact: Addo is the only national park where you can hire a guide to take you around the park in your own car – A hop-on guide means that you drive and he guides, advising which routes to take and providing insight on Addo history, wildlife, botany and more. At the moment, there is only one hop-on guide in the park, but they are looking for more.

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Lion’s Head reopened as mane attraction for Cape Town hikers

Lion’s Head, which has been off limits to Cape Town hikers for most of the lockdown, reopened on Wednesday. Access to the summit, which is part of Table Mountain National Park, would be controlled by …
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Eager hikers can once again make the climb up the popular Lion’s Head. The mountain officially reopens to the public on Wednesday, September 9.
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South African National Parks (SANParks) announced that the Lion’s Head summit situated within the Table Mountain National Park (TMNP) will reopen …
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Quick Addo Fact: Not Just the Big Five – the Big Seven. Addo (as us locals call it!) is home to the Big Seven. This includes the Big Five of elephant, lion, buffalo, leopard, rhino plus great white sharks and southern right whales.

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The Department of Justice says an IT crash is to blame for beneficiaries not getting their maintenance payments during the Covid-19 lockdown. At least 622 of the 1,500 families affected by the IT …
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Eastern Cape universities are set to reopen in July and August. The universities will open gradually, as part of measures set out by the department of higher education & training to combat the spread …
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Benz pulled the covers off its advanced new S-Class, featuring an elegant new look and a dazzling array of features, and now it appears that the next-generation C-Class will inherit a lot of its …
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Quick Addo Fact: Spekboom is a superhero. Spekboom is prolific in the main game area of Addo and helps to sustain the Addo Elephant Park’s hearty population of over 600 elephants. The succulent spekboom regenerates quickly so the landscape doesn’t look devastated as it does in Kruger due to destructive elephant feeding. The plant is so good at converting carbon dioxide that ten hectares of spekboom would equal taking 25 cars off the road for a year. There are also places where the precious thicket opens up revealing wide plains of game with pinpricks of zebra in the distance and bigger blobs of eland. 79% of the park is covered in subtropical thicket and it is especially concentrated in the main game area. It may look uniform, but the subtropical thicket contains 112 different vegetation types and is comprised of 1 558 plant species – 322 of these species (20%) are endemic and found nowhere else.

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Sappi undertakes Arbor week activities

In celebrating Arbor Week, Sappi Southern Africa has highlighted the company’s efforts to help protect the pepper-bark tree, also known as the Warburgia salutaris. The company points out that the …
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Quick Addo Fact: Addo features a main camp, featuring a swimming pool, restaurant, flood lit water hole and various accommodation, four other rest camps and four camps run by concessionaires. The main entrance as well as two looped tourist roads in the park are tarred while the others are graveled. There is also an additional access road through the southern block of the park feeding off the N2 highway near Colchester; it joins up with the existing tourist roads in the park.

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As part of StreetARToronto, local artists have turned bare stretches of walls and alleys into tributes to essential workers …
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Eastern Cape police on Thursday hailed the services of their search and rescue dog Misty, which managed to sniff out a man who had kidnapped his toddler and gone into hiding with her.
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Eastern Cape police have arrested one suspect and are searching for his two accomplices following a robbery at the Kareedouw Post Office.
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Quick Addo Fact: The flora within the AENP is quite varied, and like all plant life, is a central factor to the ecological system in place. Several species of rare and endemic plants, particularly succulent shrubs and geophytes are native to the South African region within the AENP. Many species are under environmental pressure, however, and are facing possible extinction.

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Chief Executive Officer, Fundisile Mketeni, said the National Parks Week has been moved from September to November. “SANParks has postponed the free access week, which is traditionally held in …
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South African National Parks (SANParks), together with Total South Africa and FNB will be hosting the 15th annual SA National Parks Week from November 16 to 20, 2020. SANParks Chief Executive Officer …
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Chief Executive Officer, Fundisile Mketeni, said the National Parks Week has been moved from September to November. “SANParks has postponed the free access week, which is traditionally held in …
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Quick Addo Fact: Addo is home to the biggest dune fields in South Africa – In a lesser-known stretch of Addo, where the park meets the sea, there’s a great gathering of high and wide dunes known as the Alexandria Dune Field. This dune sea, as it’s also known, is the largest and least degraded of its kind in the whole southern hemisphere, stretching over 15 800 hectares, with its widest point being five kilometres from the sea. You can park your car at Woody Cape Backpackers and stroll along for ten minutes on the boardwalk and see the immense dune field from a beautiful viewpoint on the beach. Go and see the dunes when the coral trees are also in flower, from June to October, when they form a red blanket over the tree canopy.

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Jeetan Patel is hopeful of continuing in a role as England’s spin coach after he retires from playing and would relish a full-time position if it were available.
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The DA has not, and will not, lose sight of why we do what we do. Which is to offer hope, dignity and opportunity to South Africans through governments of the people, by the people and for the people.
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South Africa’s Naledi Boltina collaborates with award-winning Nigerian artist Ice Prince to celebrate black African love.
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Quick Addo Fact: Addo is home to the biggest dune fields in South Africa – In a lesser-known stretch of Addo, where the park meets the sea, there’s a great gathering of high and wide dunes known as the Alexandria Dune Field. This dune sea, as it’s also known, is the largest and least degraded of its kind in the whole southern hemisphere, stretching over 15 800 hectares, with its widest point being five kilometres from the sea. You can park your car at Woody Cape Backpackers and stroll along for ten minutes on the boardwalk and see the immense dune field from a beautiful viewpoint on the beach. Go and see the dunes when the coral trees are also in flower, from June to October, when they form a red blanket over the tree canopy.

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PE guard robbed of his gas pistol and knife – Kirkwood

Port Elizabeth police are investigating a case of armed robbery after three suspects allegedly threatened a security officer with a firearm and fled with his gas pistol on Thursday.
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An Eastern Cape municipal project manager, four contractors and two companies will appear in the Butterworth Magistrate’s Court on Friday for alleged fraud, theft, corruption and money laundering.
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We do not know who to cry to now because they are all failing to assist us. It’s even worse what the ANC has done sending back Mlahleki.’ …
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Quick Addo Fact: The penguins in Addo are in trouble – Despite having elephant in the name, Addo Elephant National Park extends right down to the ocean and currently protects some very important islands in Algoa Bay, namely St Croix and Bird Island. African Penguins are more threatened than rhino are at this stage. Because they’re not a key species or a high profile one that people really know about, or care about penguins are on the sidelines. Their numbers have dwindled alarmingly and every ten years or so, their numbers halve and if it goes on at that rate, in the next twenty or thirty years there won’t be penguins around.’ Addo is responsible for the protection of about 50 percent of the total African Penguin population.

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Women in hot water for saying KNP staff turned accommodation into a ‘squatter camp’ – Addo

SANParks said it would lodge criminal and civil complaints against two women who allegedly wrote on Facebook that accommodation in Skukuza has been turned into a “squatter camp” by employees.
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For Women’s Month, Ford South Africa spoke to three women about how they are making their mark in the conservation sector.
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Quick Addo Fact: Most Diverse Game Park – Addo Elephant National Park is said to be the most diverse game park on Earth. The area includes five biomes – Karoo, grassland, fynbos, thicket and forest.

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S. African tourism sees rebound following easing of COVID-19 lockdown

South Africa’s tourism sector has seen a rebound since the country further eased COVID-19 lockdown restrictions last week. The past few days have seen locals going to tourist destinations, including …
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The Ezemvelo KZN Wildlife conservation agency is in the news again for all the wrong reasons after the entire board of directors was suspended last week following ‘prima facie allegations’ of …
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Quick Addo Fact: Sylvester the lion lives in Addo – The iconic black-maned lions of the Kalahari were introduced to Addo over ten years ago. The big reason for choosing these lions (as opposed to somewhere like Kruger) is because they are disease-free and will not affect the buffalo population, which might have otherwise caught tuberculosis. The other reason, is that these Kalahari lions are seen to be the closest match to the now-extinct Cape Lion which used to roam the Addo area. If you want to see Sylvester, the famous lion who managed to duck under the fence in the Karoo National Park, then you need to stay at Kuzuko Lodge in the northern Darlington section of Addo. Getaway was also tipped that the park is finishing adequate fencing in this section and it’ll soon be home to the Big Five.

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SANParks Lays Charges After “Racist, Incorrect, Defamatory Postings” about Kruger National Park – Addo

SANParks has announced that it will be laying charges against individuals who posted allegedly racist and defamatory remarks about the Kruger National Park’s accommodation. South African National …
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SANParks’ Kruger National Park Airwing has been named as the Best Conservation Practitioner at the annual Rhino Conservation Awards announced on Friday 31 July to coincide with World Ranger Day. The …
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Since the announcement by President Cyril Ramaphosa that nearly all restrictions on the country’s economy would be eased from Monday, residents have been planning family visits, meals and trips out.
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Quick Addo Fact: Tourism – In 2018 the highest visitor count in the park’s 87-year history was recorded. The park received 305,510 visitors between 1 April 2017 and 31 March 2018 (up from 265,585 in the previous year). International visitors make up 55% of this number, with German, Dutch and British nationals in the majority.

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SANParks announces accommodation booking rules for lockdown level 2 – Addo

As per regulations, the number of guests in camps will not be allowed to exceed more than 50 per cent of its capacity.
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Under level 2 of the lockdown, which came into effect at midnight South Africans, can once again buy alcohol and cigarettes legally.
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Quick Addo Fact: Most Diverse Game Park – Addo Elephant National Park is said to be the most diverse game park on Earth. The area includes five biomes – Karoo, grassland, fynbos, thicket and forest.

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JOHANNESBURG – SANParks says it’s more than ready to welcome visitors under Level 2 lockdown. SANParks says it is already received a large number of bookings. “We have opened 50% of the accommodation …
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SA National Parks (SANParks) has urged the public to pre-book their overnight stays at its parks, saying it will not allow walk-ins. From Tuesday, SA moves to lockdown level 2, and the restriction on …
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South African National Parks (SANParks) has been experiencing a surge in bookings since President Cyril Ramaphosa announced on Saturday that the ban on interprovincial travel was lifted, allowing …
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Quick Addo Fact: You can also see super pods of dolphins – Algoa Bay has been named as the bottlenose dolphin capital of the world after photograph proof and scientific studies showed that an estimated population of 28 482 individuals make use of these waters, making it the largest along the South African coastline.

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South African National Parks will be open to the public again from 14 August 2020. To celebrate, SANParks is offering a “welcome back” discount on accommodation.
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Quick Addo Fact: Spekboom is a superhero. Spekboom is prolific in the main game area of Addo and helps to sustain the Addo Elephant Park’s hearty population of over 600 elephants. The succulent spekboom regenerates quickly so the landscape doesn’t look devastated as it does in Kruger due to destructive elephant feeding. The plant is so good at converting carbon dioxide that ten hectares of spekboom would equal taking 25 cars off the road for a year. There are also places where the precious thicket opens up revealing wide plains of game with pinpricks of zebra in the distance and bigger blobs of eland. 79% of the park is covered in subtropical thicket and it is especially concentrated in the main game area. It may look uniform, but the subtropical thicket contains 112 different vegetation types and is comprised of 1 558 plant species – 322 of these species (20%) are endemic and found nowhere else.

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Vodacom pumps R200m into ECape network expansion drive – Kirkwood

The capital expenditure will go towards the deployment of 20 new base stations in urban areas and 18 new base stations in rural areas.
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Just last weekend, a total of 10 suspected livestock thieves were arrested in the province. Five of them were nabbed at Sulenkama in Qumbu within the confines of the OR Tambo Municipality.
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Just last weekend, a total of 10 suspected livestock thieves were arrested in the province. Five of them were nabbed at Sulenkama in Qumbu within the confines of the OR Tambo Municipality.
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Quick Addo Fact: The penguins in Addo are in trouble – Despite having elephant in the name, Addo Elephant National Park extends right down to the ocean and currently protects some very important islands in Algoa Bay, namely St Croix and Bird Island. African Penguins are more threatened than rhino are at this stage. Because they’re not a key species or a high profile one that people really know about, or care about penguins are on the sidelines. Their numbers have dwindled alarmingly and every ten years or so, their numbers halve and if it goes on at that rate, in the next twenty or thirty years there won’t be penguins around.’ Addo is responsible for the protection of about 50 percent of the total African Penguin population.

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Quick Addo Fact: Happy Elephants – Guides in Addo don’t carry firearms because these elephants are some of the gentlest in the country. They don’t feel threatened around cars and even in musth pose little threat – that said tourists should never get too close as it makes an elephant feel threatened, rather give them space and park the car a little away. More often than not, the ellies will come to you. A large majority – rumoured to be around 90 percent – of the female elephants in Addo have no tusks. Bull elephants were introduced from Kruger to the widen genetic pool, so tusks are becoming more common.

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