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Re: SANParks beefs up security at gates into KNP
Posted: Sun Feb 03, 2013 8:00 am
by Peter Betts
Richprins wrote:Glad you don't ask dishonest questions, Amoli! -O
Pafuri is not a hotspot regarding rhino poaching carcasses discovered at all!
But there have been exhaustive discussion on the unroadworthy vehicles entering from Moz there to do shopping in SA via Punda or Pafuri exit gates on the Western side.
All sorts of promises were made that they would have to overnight in a camp etc, as per Giryondo too.
Ain't happening!
This media release lends itself to rhino, but security issues are more than that.
The Pafuri gate is also a major conduit for the proceeds of crime up country...affirmative shopping
Re: SANParks beefs up security at gates into KNP
Posted: Sun Feb 03, 2013 12:35 pm
by Sprocky
After being in the park for a short while today due to a flat camera battery, when I was leaving at the gate I told the guard that I might come back later. He took my entry document and wrote in it. When he gave it back to me the exit permit was still in it. This is what he had written...
Now my question, where is the control and there was NO beefed up security???
How the hell does anybody there now know if I am still in the park on the roads or not???
Re: SANParks beefs up security at gates into KNP
Posted: Sun Feb 03, 2013 4:24 pm
by General Gump
SPROCKY ,if they do not know you by now
Re: SANParks beefs up security at gates into KNP
Posted: Sun Feb 03, 2013 4:38 pm
by Sprocky
General Gump wrote:SPROCKY ,if they do not know you by now
General, these are the security guards, not KNP staff! They get rotated on a daily basis. And if they do know me, all the easier for me as a "poacher" to ply my trade. Rule number one of engagement,...know your enemy!
There was NO sign of "beefed up" security!! Was this just another smoke screen from SANParks to satisfy the belief of those distant folk who watch the news for their info on current affairs??
They (SANParks) said in their media statement, "with immediate effect"! What is immediate in their chronological terms?
I hear what you said before, about this was in the planning already, and training and blah, blah, but when a statement is made they should stick to it, if they ever can!
Re: SANParks beefs up security at gates into KNP
Posted: Tue Apr 15, 2014 8:44 pm
by Richprins
Here's a brilliant video, partly revealing the feeble border post checks at Pafuri:
http://rhinokiller.co.za/
Re: SANParks beefs up security at gates into KNP
Posted: Sat Jan 16, 2016 12:17 pm
by RogerFraser
Re: SANParks beefs up security at gates into KNP
Posted: Sat Jan 16, 2016 12:38 pm
by Lisbeth
Will it ever change? Will they ever learn to control not only the gates, but everything? It's like talking for deaf ears
Re: SANParks beefs up security at gates into KNP
Posted: Sat Jan 16, 2016 2:52 pm
by Bushcraft
Yes, we all had high hopes, but it seems to just be a case of window dressing and selling the perception to the press that they are taking things seriously
Re: SANParks beefs up security at gates into KNP
Posted: Sat Jan 16, 2016 3:18 pm
by Mel
Totally unacceptable state of affairs, methinks.
Re: SANParks beefs up security at gates into KNP
Posted: Sat Jan 16, 2016 3:40 pm
by Richprins
Try pitching up with a beer...then you have chaos!