KNP by any name will be as majestic

There’s thoughtful anguish in the words of Juliet in Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet: “What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet”... and they bear thinking about today as there is a clamour to rename the Kruger National Park.

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If it is called “Skukuza” - as a politician from the EFF in Mpumalanga has proposed - will the memories recalled by travel expert Michael Catterson, in our story today, fail to exist? Those memories of a family holiday in the park, “watching monkeys, honey badgers and hyenas patrol the fence”.

No, we would like to suggest, they won't, because the magic and majesty of Kruger won't disappear because it is called something else.