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Two staff members from Camdeboo National Park outside Graaff-Reinet received awards at this year’s SANParks Frontier Regional Achievement Awards. The event took place at the Africanos Country Estate near Addo on Thursday, 25 July 2019.

The awards evening takes place annually, giving recognition to individuals, teams and parks for outstanding service in the previous financial year – in this case, 2018/19. The Frontier Region is made up of the Addo Elephant, Camdeboo, Garden Route, Karoo and Mountain Zebra National Parks.

General Worker Supervisor, Alban Booysen, received his second award in as many years. This year, it was a Regional Manager’s Award for his innovation. Regional General Manager, Dries Engelbrecht, said Alban’s innovation knows no bounds, as he is known for making a plan when faced with a dilemma out in the field, making use of what he has at his disposal. A real “MacGuyver”, Engelbrecht called him.

The second Regional Manager’s Award for a Camdeboo staffer went to Buffer Zone Co-ordinator, Bronwyn Botha. Apart from working on the second phase of the Mountain Zebra Camdeboo Protected Environment, Bronwyn has been toiling at implementing numerous facets of its Management Plan over the last financial year. These include the co-ordination of the cultural heritage survey, the alien clearing and soil erosion priority survey and the sensitivity survey.

Engelbrecht congratulated all the recipients on their awards and thanked them for their tireless work. He was joined in congratulating his staff by SANParks’ Managing Executive: Parks, Property Mokoena, who flew in specially to attend the awards. “You are examples of the quality of staff we have working in our national parks. Your dedication, passion and loyalty are evident in everything you do, and we hope that receiving these awards tonight will go a long way in not only motivating you to carry on in this fashion but also see your colleagues striving for better. I, along with your Regional Manager and other top management in the region, am very proud of all the winners this evening, as well as all the other staff members who were nominated,” he said.

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South African National Parks (SANParks) Frontier Region Communications

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