{"id":35320,"date":"2026-05-25T10:02:23","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T08:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=35320"},"modified":"2026-05-25T10:02:23","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T08:02:23","slug":"sas-kruger-national-park-security-boosted-after-tourist-deaths","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/sas-kruger-national-park-security-boosted-after-tourist-deaths\/","title":{"rendered":"SA&#8217;s Kruger National Park\u00a0security boosted after tourist deaths"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>South Africa&#8217;s National Parks (SANPARKS) says it is deploying additional park rangers and will also enhance its technology to improve surveillance and early warning capabilities at the Kruger National Park, Mpumalanga Province.<\/div>\n<div>\nThis is after an elderly tourist couple was found murdered\u00a0in the northern remote section of the park on Friday last week.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment Minister Willie Aucamp has described the incident as shocking and unprecedented, saying it&#8217;s the first case of its kind reported in the history of the Kruger National Park.<\/p>\n<p>SANPARKS says the outcomes of police investigations on this matter will also help guide specific interventions needed to strengthen existing security at Kruger National Park.<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\nSANPARKS says these actions will reinforce its ongoing commitment to visitor safety and operational readiness.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>They have also confirmed that existing technology systems assisted in identifying the vehicle linked to the missing tourists.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8211;SABC&#8211;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":23735,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[26],"class_list":["post-35320","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":"","news_description":"","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":"Kruger National Park\u00a0murder case"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/35320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/35320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35321,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/35320\/revisions\/35321"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=35320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}