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No name change for Kruger National Park, confirms Environment Minister Dion George
The Star
|October 24, 2025
THE Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment says there has been no name change for the Kruger National Park.
The department was responding to recent reports that about a proposed change to the name. It added that those spreading misinformation are urged to refrain from doing so immediately.
It was reported recently that a motion was tabled on September 23 by the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) in the Mpumalanga Provincial Legislature in which the party proposed that Kruger National Park be renamed to Skukuza National Park and the Kruger Mpumalanga International Airport be named the late former deputy president David "DD" Mabuza.
This story is from the October 24, 2025 edition of The Star.
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