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Skukuza Golf Course

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Skukuza Golf Course
Skukuza Golf Course
Skukuza Golf Course
Skukuza Golf Course
Skukuza Golf Course
Skukuza Golf Course
Skukuza Golf Course
Skukuza Golf Course
Skukuza Golf Course
Skukuza Golf Course
Skukuza Golf Course
Skukuza Golf Course
Skukuza Golf Course
Skukuza Golf Course
Skukuza Golf Course
Phone:
+27 13 735 5543

Address:
Kruger Park, Skukuza, South Africa

Skukuza , located 50 km east of Hazyview at the confluence of the N'waswitshaka and Sabie Rivers in Mpumalanga, is the administrative headquarters and main camp of the Kruger National Park, South Africa. It is the largest rest camp in the country and also the largest rest camp in the Kruger National Park. It is also South Africa's number one safari destination and is the most popular of all game reserves in the country, highly favoured by both domestic and foreign tourists alike, for simple reasons; Africa's big five game are in abundance when compared it to all other game reserves in the country. A tourist in Skukuza does not have to go out looking for Africa's big five, Africa's Big five simply come to you while you are enjoying your drinks at the deck of the Jackalberry restaurant. Lions, leopards and Cheetahs regularly kills their prey on the beautiful green lawns of Skukuza golf course, or on the Skukuza cricket club lawns, this is what makes Skukuza an amazing game reserve in Africa. The game reserve is situated in a high rainfall area , well wooded and thick dense forests of the southern banks of the Sabie River as well as the Nwaswitshaka river banks in Mpumalanga Province. The name Skukuza was given by the local Tsonga people as a nickname for James Stevenson-Hamilton. It could be translated as 'to sweep', as Stevenson-Hamilton was perceived as to sweep the land clean of poachers and other criminals operating in the area. But according to Dr HA Junod, an expert in Tsonga history, the name Skukuza reflects the Tsonga people's attitude and resentment towards forced removal from their beautiful and fertile land. The area around Skukuza was inhabited by the Tsonga people until 1905, when they were forcibly removed by the Colonial Government as it was decided from the beginning that if the park were to succeed, no humans could be allowed in the reserve. The evicted Tsonga were resettled in villages around Hazyview, such as Hoxani, Cunningmore, Mkhuhlu and the greater Hazyview area where there was already a problem of overcrowding by large Tsonga speaking communities. Before the forced removals, the Tsonga people occupied the whole eastern part of the town of Hazyview, which is where the majority of private game reserves in Mpumalanga are situated today.
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