The community should visit Kruger Heritage sites too

The should visit Kruger Heritage sites too

By BRIAN KAJENGO

Thanyani Madzhuta the Kruger National Park, Heritage Site Offer, plead with the `members of the community   to apply first if they would like to do anything in the park.

He said, “We are pleading with the members of the community or either the tourists whose beloved ones perished here to inform the Heritage site management the day and time they would like to perform their rituals.”

Last year this paper published the story whereby tourists prayed rituals and past the photos on the rocks in the Kruger without the consent of the officials.

“We don’t want a situation whereby people just come in to the Kruger National Park to perform rituals, and if the animals attack them. The blame lay against Kruger National Park.” Thanyani Madzhuta said. 

Madzhuta told Bvunza Mutupo SADC that right now there are many things to see in the Kruger National Park than seeing animals.

“We would like to inform members of the community and our patrons that they can also visit our Kruger Heritage sites in the Kruger national Park. We have many heritage sites within the Kruger National Park which we would expect community as well as our tourists would visits also.” Thanyani Madzhuta said.

Madzhuta told BVUNZAMUTUPO SADC VOICE that there are 588 Heritage sites within the Kruger National Park.

“People who would like to visit the Heritage sites should inform the Heritage Management on time and they have to come in the morning the same applies to those who want to pray rituals should come in the morning. Community should give its time to visit these Heritage sites, because there are lots of things to learn from them.” said Madzhuta.

Kruger National Park spokesperson, William Mabasa said, “Community should know that there are many species animals that need to be protected by all of us. We are very much worried about the decreasing in number of our rhinos poached. Last year we lost about 601 rhinos, and these first two months of 2014 the Kruger National Park lost 74 rhinos so far, of which 36 alleged suspects arrested.”                        ``                                                                                             

William Mabasa advised the tourism information Officers to take the information and spread it to the community.