Heavy Vehicles using Kruger as Shortcut

[Flutterby]

This was posted on the SANParks Kruger FB page yesterday:

Elmari Nel: What are these trucks doing in the KNP? Saw 7 of them on the H4-2 on Sunday, 2nd of March 2014 just before 12:00. A KNP employee at Lower Sabie said that they are entering the park at Kruger Gate and they use Crocodile Bridge to exit the park? Building supplies for the park? I don't think so!

Will be interesting to see SANParks' reply.

[nan]

realy need these big trucks in the park

[Bushcraft]

Interesting Please post SANPark's reply, if there is one

[Lisbeth]

Another

[Flutterby]

Lesego Nko: Permission was duly granted for the trucks to pass through as a result of unrests in the Bushbuckridge area. The trucks provide essential service to various areas adjacent to the park including the park itself.
SANParks controls access into all its national parks and decisions such as this are not common and special concession is made to allow such movements as guided by policy. In this case, open communications between the entry and exit points was kept at all times.

[RobertT]

Lesego Nko: Permission was duly granted for the trucks to pass through as a result of unrests in the Bushbuckridge area. The trucks provide essential service to various areas adjacent to the park including the park itself.
SANParks controls access into all its national parks and decisions such as this are not common and special concession is made to allow such movements as guided by policy. In this case, open communications between the entry and exit points was kept at all times.

They must really have needed those poles in a hurry. What a pathetic exscuse. Essential service, Maybe they were needed for the international poll dancing competition in Komatipoort and that is why there was a rush?

[Bushcraft]

Can someone please explain to me how these trucks provide an essential service to the park

[nan]

Can someone please explain to me how these trucks provide an essential service to the park

maybe Hippos asked for some of these trucks

[Lisbeth]

Maybe they are building a fence of wooden poles along the frontier to Mozambique?

[Bushcraft]

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