Struben Guest House - Skukuza (Staff Accommodation Crisis)

[Richprins]

This guest house has been closed for "renovation" for a while now, so unavailable to tourists. Yet a Kruger employee and family are confirmed to be living there.

This is not maybe the end of the world, but the guesthouse makes hundreds of thousands of rands income for SANParks every year from tourists, so a dangerous precedent being set, IMO.

There is currently a drastic shortage of accommodation for SP staff in Greater Skukuza, but this is not the way to go, and will get worse once work on the hotel starts.

[Alf]

On that note I wonder how often the director uses his guest house inside the staff village

If i remember correctly it was a 4 bedroom house and in the yard there are a lady living there that cleans the house and her husband who looks after the garden.

[Richprins]

VVVIP, Alf!

Glad the lady cleans her husband, though!

[Alf]

[Flutterby]

We drove past Struben's a few times this week at different times of the day and there was no activity there...looked empty to us.

[Richprins]

Dear Valued Stakeholders

Kruger National Park Technical Services is in the process of finalizing the redesign of the structure, this process will be completed by the end of December; the initial upgrade design had to be redesigned to ensure full compliance with legislative framework that governs upgrades in National Parks Such as Kruger.

The upgrades are scheduled to Start in January 2017 and will take 2 months to be completed. The expected date of completion is on or before Wednesday, 01 March 2017.

Regards

Lesley Nyawo
Public Relations Assistant
Tel: 013 735 4358
Email: lesley.nyawo@sanparks.org..

[Bananaboy]

But in the staff village there are at least 5 awaiting poachers still living there. One is driving with his official vehicle as traffic official from hazyview every day to his home. Yes..... He got a job while still getting paid from Sanparks as a traffic official in hazyview. AAND he is also a freelance guide for Safaris Direct.

[Lisbeth]

How do you know that

[Scipio]

It is common knowledge this side.

[Bananaboy]

Everybody here knows