Hoedspruit Eastgate Airport lies just outside the town of Hoedspruit, in the Limpopo Province. Situated at the foot of the Klein Drakensberg mountain range, Eastgate Airport is part of the Hoedspruit Air Force Base, which is an airbase belonging to the South African Air Force. The base was officially opened on the 1 July 1978, and was designed to be a highly protected wartime base, with armoured and underground hangers and revetments (barricades of sandbags set up to
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Isaac Mathole
Age: born in 1979
Family and background: I have a wife and two children (son and daughter). I started working with elephants in 2002 here at Camp Jabulani. I worked with different managers as an elephant handler, and enjoyed my work every day. I like the elephants more than everything, and learned a lot from Rorry Nesman and the head grooms.
Favourite part of
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Tigere Matipedza
Age: Born in 1978
Origin: Chinhoyi, Zimbabwe
Family and background: I’m a married father of two, a boy and a girl. I started working in 1996 at the age of 18 as an elephant stable cleaner in Zimbabwe, and my job was to ensure that the elephants were well taken care of. By the time I was 22, I was
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Ingredients for the filling
1 medium butternut
30g butter
2.5 ml grated nutmeg
Salt and pepper to taste
Ingredients for the pasta
200g bread flour (strong flour)
2 whole eggs
5ml salt
20ml olive oil
Ingredients for Beurre Noissette
sage
50g pine nuts
100g butter
Method
Set the oven to 180 ͦC. Roast the butternut in the oven till soft – approximately 2 hours. Meanwhile mix the ingredients for the pasta, and knead till it comes together in a hard, smooth dough. Wrap with cling film
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Our new resident at Camp Jabulani
This Western stripe-bellied sand snake is now officially a permanent resident at Camp Jabulani, and has moved into a hollow in a Leadwood stump near the back of the kitchen. The snake is very mildly venomous, but is not a danger to human beings.
The Western Stripe-bellied Sand Snake (Psammophis subtaeniatus)
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Ingredients
Chocolate Mousse Centre:
500g Dark Chocolate, melted
6 eggs
700ml cream, whipped
4 gelatine leaves, soaked
Genoise (Sponge):
8 eggs
250g cake flour
250g castor sugar
Pinch of salt
Coffee Syrup
250g sugar
250ml
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JP Schmidt
I started developing a love for nature, especially the bushveld, while growing up on a family game farm where I spent all day hiking, fishing or hunting. So needless to say, after school I looked for the fastest way to get back to the bush. To this end, I attended a field guide course.
After my studies I started working in the
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Gnocchi
Ingredients:
1kg peeled potatoes
350g bread flour
1 egg
1 egg yolk
5ml salt
Method:
Serves 6–8
Cook the potatoes and strain out the water. Put the potatoes back on the heat and stir while you cook out all the moisture. Once there’s no more steam visible, remove from the heat and put the potatoes through a masher. Add the flour, eggs and salt to the potatoes and mix by hand to prevent over mixing.
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The world’s tallest mammal is one of the animals that can be viewed while on a game drive at Camp Jabulani. A giraffe’s legs alone are about 1.8 metres, taller than many humans. These long legs allow giraffes to run as fast as 56 kilometers an hour over short distances, and cruise comfortably at 16 kilometers an hour over longer distances. Here are more
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Hippos at Camp Jabulani
The hippopotamus is one of the many animals that can be viewed at Camp Jabulani while out on safari. The word ‘hippopotamus’ means ‘river horse’, and is often shortened to ‘hippo’. Hippos have numerous collective nouns, and a group of hippos is often referred to as a crash, bloat, herd, pod or dale. Here are some more facts on this incredible mammal:
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