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KARMA IN THE KRUGER

The signs are everywhere: ‘Don’t feed the animals’. After countless visits to Kruger Park, it has become abundantly clear to me that the fences in the reserve are to keep people in, not animals out.

Take, for example, that one July when some friends and I did what we always did when we were home from varsity - we grabbed a braai grid and some tents and gapped it to Kruger.

We booked a campsite at Satara, one of the busier camps, especially in the school holidays, so

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