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Kruger Selati (Pty) Ltd, is applying in terms of the National Environmental Management Act, 1998 (Act No. 107 of 1998), and the Environmental Impact Assessment Regulations, 2014 to the Chief Directorate: Integrated Environmental Authorisations of the National Department of Environmental Affairs; for environmental authorisation at the Basic Assessment level, to develop a 48 bed tourism facility comprised of 12 railway carriages and a lounge carriage on the Selati Railway Bridge over the Sabie River adjacent to the Skukuza Rest Camp in the Kruger National Park, at the GPS co-ordinates 24°59'28.93″S and 31°35'48.71″E.

In addition to this the existing Waterkant Guest Houses will be refurbished as upmarket tourism accommodation comprising of 12 beds with associated lounge and dining facilities. These two guest houses will be replaced by the development of a 12 bed guest house available for use by the general public just to the west of the existing Nyati Guest House.

The development as a whole will reflect the historical and heritage value of the Selati Railway Line and will include additional facilities within the footprint of the existing Selati restaurant building, which is to the south of the Bridge and within the boundaries of the Skukuza Rest Camp, such as themed restaurants for both the general public and for exclusive use of the overnight guests to the facility, themed edutainment and interpretative areas for the general public and reception facilities for the overnight guests. These additional components may function independently of the upmarket tourism accommodation described above and are not part of the application for environmental authorization. To the north of the Bridge it is proposed that a stationary box carriage be positioned on the existing railway tracks to serve as storage and backdrop for bush diner functions and the departure/return of game drives.

The Skukuza Rest Camp in the Kruger National Park falls within the Bushbuckridge Local Municipality within the Ehlanzeni District Municipality (DC32) which is in the Mpumalanga Province.

You are invited to register as an Interested and Affected Party by contacting the Environmental Assessment Practitioner as per the details provided below:
Kevan Zunckel of Emross Consulting (Pty) Ltd.
Address: 7 Annthia Road, Hilton, 3245
Tel: 033 343 1739
Fax: 086 517 5582
Cell: 082 929 4270
Email: [email protected]

In order to ensure that you are identified as an interested and/or affected party, if you so wish, please submit your name, contact information and interest in the above mentioned project to the contact person given above within 30 days of the publication date of this advertisement, i.e. before 26 February 2018. As part of this process a Heritage Impact Assessment is also being prepared by Archaetnos CC. Any interested or affected party who wishes to comment on this is invited to do so in writing to the Heritage Consultant, Archaetnos, at [email protected] before the above date.