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Entity: Kyalami Estates
Entity VAT No: 2018/031605/07
Entity Reg No:
Invoice Date: xx May 2019
KRUGER SHALATI

Bill to:
THE TRAIN ON THE BRIDGE
Attention:xxxxx xxxxx
Tax Invoice No: xxxxx xxxxx
Xxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxx Recipient VAT No: xxxxx xxxxx
Xxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxx BY JAMES CLARKE AND MARY BROADLEY
PO Number: xxxxx xxxxx
t’s a specially designed train and it The government soon realised that For a birder, this alone was a thrill and I
stands, permanently, on the century- tourists were more entranced by the stop- now wonder which is the better birding
old Selati Railway Bridge downstream over on the bridge than by the journey. vantage point - Selati Bridge, or Lake
Account:
Ifrom Skukuza, Kruger National Park’s Your Reference: Tax Reference:
Panic’s famous bird hide, 10 minutes’
People hankered for a chance to stay
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main rest camp. Despite the precipitous Kyalami Estates Kyalami Estates drive away.
down below in a camp among the giant
fall-off in overseas visitors caused by riverine trees with the night-time roar
the COVID pandemic, ‘The Train on the of lions and the cackle of hyenas. This In the hazy distance to the west, one can
Bridge’ is open to guests. spurred the 1926 declaration of Kruger watch spectacular sunsets over the
National Park and the development of its kilometre-high Drakensberg Escarpment
The stone-pillared bridge spanning the first rest camp – Skukuza. Tax Reference:
while, to the east, one can see the crest of the
Description:
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Sabie River provides an evocative link R000 0000 R000 0000 Lebombo Mountains on the Mozambique
Xxxxx xxxxxxxxx
between the Kruger Park and its 19th Having known the landmark bridge for border stretching southwards to eSwatini
R000 00000
R000 0000
Xxxxx xxxxxxx
century beginnings. The bridge was built most of my life, I was anxious to see (formerly Swaziland) and Zululand.
in 1893 to accommodate a railway loop the train, and with photographer Mary
from the main Delagoa Bay–Pretoria line Broadley, we went to Skukuza’s revamped At the end of the Boer War, there was
and was hastily planned to carry goods Selati railway station and were cheerfully uncontrolled hunting along the Sabie
greeted, though, because guests were
and labour up to the mountain ridge Sub Total: R000 000.00 and the government called in a Scot,
VAT 15%: R000 000.00
beyond Gravelotte where a gold rush was occupying the train, we could not enter Lieutenant-colonel James Stevenson-
causing great excitement. But the rush Total: R000 000.00 Hamilton, to stop the killing which,
the ‘carriages’ but were taken up to
quickly fizzled out and investors, including the bridge. Each carriage is an en-suite incredibly, he did. A quarter-century later,
the British government, lost millions. apartment with a glass wall allowing he became the first warden when the
guests to either sit in armchairs or lie in
Account Name: Kyalami Estates region was proclaimed as a national park.
bed observing the elephants bathing and
The Selati railway became a line to Bank: Investec I met him on his 90th birthday and heard
watching the ever-present fish eagles
nowhere. Account: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx first-hand how he took control.
patrolling the river.
Account Type: Current
In the 1920s, it was re-opened to offer Branch Code: xxxxxx He was called ‘Skukuza’ by the local
tourists a nine-day railway tour of the On the south side of the carriages, guests people. One interpretation of his name is:
can stroll along the bridge’s walkway
Lowveld which included a night on the Estate Office & Administration ‘the man who turned everything upside
bridge looking down at the wildlife of the or lean against the railing watching for down’. Fair enough. But some historians
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1. Stay Home by Pedro Ninja Email: info@kyalamiestates.co.za believe the name given to him by the tribe
Sabie and experiencing the night sounds,
whatever might be moving about down
and spotting game as the sun rose. PO Box 50, Kyalami Estates 1684 living there and who, for centuries, had
below.
For more information and to book a tour, please email Mahidi Maeko
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