Apply your managerial minds
Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2013 8:53 pm
As a result of our calling for Dr Mabunda's resignation, we need to come up with an alternative to the way that our parks are being managed at the moment....no finger pointing, just good positive discussions. Think outside the box, no matter how wild the idea may sound in the beginning, many minds could fine tune it into a workable alternative.
For a while now, there has been talk on privatizing the camps in our national parks. Surely this is just one very small aspect of what goes on in the parks and I for one don't see it as an answer to the bigger problems that our parks face today. However lets discuss this issue as a stepping stone to bigger things.
There is no doubt that camps ( and I'm referring primarily to Kruger) are not in the best state of repair. This could be because of a number of reasons like high maintenance requirements due to age etc shortage of funds and manpower amongst many others. So one solution would be to privatize the camps and let someone or some company with the expertise look after them from here on in. In a nutshell I would presume it would work like this........SanParks calls for tenders and the applicant is well scrutinized. The applicant pays SP a yearly fee with maybe an upfront lump sum and the camp then becomes the new 'owners' problem for them to run and manage in a way that they can turn that camp into a profitable business. This is probably not the only scenario, so lets hear them and then we can start discussing the pro's and cons on each scenario.
For a while now, there has been talk on privatizing the camps in our national parks. Surely this is just one very small aspect of what goes on in the parks and I for one don't see it as an answer to the bigger problems that our parks face today. However lets discuss this issue as a stepping stone to bigger things.
There is no doubt that camps ( and I'm referring primarily to Kruger) are not in the best state of repair. This could be because of a number of reasons like high maintenance requirements due to age etc shortage of funds and manpower amongst many others. So one solution would be to privatize the camps and let someone or some company with the expertise look after them from here on in. In a nutshell I would presume it would work like this........SanParks calls for tenders and the applicant is well scrutinized. The applicant pays SP a yearly fee with maybe an upfront lump sum and the camp then becomes the new 'owners' problem for them to run and manage in a way that they can turn that camp into a profitable business. This is probably not the only scenario, so lets hear them and then we can start discussing the pro's and cons on each scenario.