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Jul
The Royal Jozini Annual 2019 Fishing Competition The Royal Jozini annual 2019 fishing competition is scheduled for Friday August 30 and Saturday August 31, 2019. There is a R5000 prize for the biggest tiger and also a prize for the largest catch for a boat. Get your entry form completed quickly as already there is
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Sep
Royal Jozini is a game reserve in all its natural, wild glory. Not a sanctuary where orphaned baby elephants are cared for. The herd at Royal Jozini roams and lives free and naturally. Elephanting is NOT being able to have an elephant give you a big “trunk kiss” or for you to groom them and
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Feb
Here’s some background and startling visuals on the major weather events in Southern Africa over the last few decades – from Domoina, to drought, to a touch of Dineo. At the end of 1983, the Pongolapoort Dam (fondly known as Jozini Dam) was at 13% of its capacity and generally thought of as a bit
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Feb
Here’s some interesting information about the history of the Pongolapoort Dam, which flows into Swaziland – where it is known as Lake Jozini. Prior to the construction of the Pongolapoort Dam the land was Africa’s first formally recognised conservation area. The Pongola Game Reserve was proclaimed in 1894 by the then President of the Transvaal
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Dec
Update – December 2018 – Travelling in and out of South Africa with children.
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It’s changing again …..travelling in and out of South Africa with children… documentation requirements for travelling in and out of South Africa are relaxing …….but don’t take a chance! For some years there has been confusion, anger and many tears shed over the anti-child trafficking regulations that the South African government brought into being, which
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Nov
Schizo or Schisto – get your head around these little parasites
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Schizo or Schisto ? Schistosoma flukes could have your brain confused, wondering why, where and what has caused your symptoms of diarrhoea, fever and a rash. And it could be anything up to 3 months after you have been wading in a dam fishing, or have taken a dip in a river before symptoms appear
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Jul
Is there space for elephants? There are historical records to tell us that African elephants appeared about 4 million years ago – but there are less than half a million left in the whole of Africa today – and as you read this, another one will have been killed for its ivory tusks. In the
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Jul
Are there Hammerheads in your Garden? Called to “come and look at this!” at a friend’s house in Durban, there was this long, thin black looking worm with a distinctive hammer head, slithering and sliming its way across the bathroom floor. Eeuw! What on earth is this? Well, it seems that this is a flatworm
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Apr
April 2016 Things are moving and shaking at Royal Jozini Big 6 Private Estate ! WATER – LAKE JOZINI – still moving down Although water levels are still very low in the lake (45.9% full at time of writing) there has been local rainfall and the bush is green and thriving. The summer of 2015/16
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Dec
It was fascinating to research information about Mopane Worms as a valuable food resource for the previous article (To Chew or not to Chew). So when Frank Taylor, a man keen on all things wild, wrote to give us more information, we just had to pass this on to you. Mopane Worms are one of
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