South African National Parks (SANParks)

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1. Story
2. The statutory agency managing South Africa's national parks, including Kruger. SANParks was the counterparty in the Makuleke restitution settlement, which required it to accept community title inside a national park while retaining conservation management — the institutional template later described as a 'contractual park'. Its revenue model is unusually tourism-dependent for a state conservation agency, which makes park budgets sensitive to visitor collapse.
3. Knowledge
4. South African National Parks (SANParks)
5. Connections
6. Kruger National Park
7. Makuleke community
8. Kruger National Park constituted from the Sabi and Shingwedzi reserves
9. Makuleke land claim settled; about 25,000 hectares of Kruger restored in title
10. Evidence
11. Kruger National Park was constituted in 1926 from the Sabi and Shingwedzi game reserves and covers approximately 19,485 km2 under SANParks management.
12. The Makuleke were removed from the Pafuri area in 1969 and their land incorporated into Kruger National Park; a 1998 settlement restored roughly 25,000 hectares in title on condition of continued conservation use, with commercial rights to the community. South African protected areas were expanded through forced removals that post-1994 restitution law reopened as legal questions.