{"id":239058,"date":"2022-10-04T18:28:13","date_gmt":"2022-10-04T16:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/press\/minister-barbara-creecy-condemns-the-murder-of-a-german-tourist-travelling-to-a-communityowned-safari-lodge-in-the-kruger-national-park?lang=en"},"modified":"2022-10-04T18:28:13","modified_gmt":"2022-10-04T16:28:13","slug":"minister-barbara-creecy-condemns-the-murder-of-a-german-tourist-travelling-to-a-community-owned-safari-lodge-in-the-kruger-national-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/minister-barbara-creecy-condemns-the-murder-of-a-german-tourist-travelling-to-a-community-owned-safari-lodge-in-the-kruger-national-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Minister Barbara Creecy condemns the murder of a German tourist travelling to a community-owned safari lodge in the Kruger National Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/files\/large\/9e83b2ae8e7314d\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/files\/large\/9e83b2ae8e7314d\" alt=\"Republic Of South Africa: Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment\" style=\"max-width:500px\" \/><\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/files\/download\/9e83b2ae8e7314d\">Download logo<\/a><br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/africarc\/loganalytics?press_id=219794&amp;press_source=Republic Of South Africa: Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Minister of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment, Ms Barbara Creecy, condems the murder of a German tourist travelling to a community-owned safari lodge in the Kruger National Park via Numbi in Mpumalanga.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I appeal to the Mpumalanga police to work tirelessly to bring the perpetrators of this heinous crime to book,&rdquo; said the Minister.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The group of German tourists were en route to the Mdluli community-owned safari lodge when they were held up by a group on the Numbi Road on Monday afternoon.&nbsp;One member of the group of four tourists was shot and killed during the attack.<\/p>\n<p>The killing of a foreign tourist to South Africa is detrimental to the country&rsquo;s attempts to recover from the challenges posed by the Covid-19 pandemic.&nbsp;The safari lodge, which opened its doors to the public shortly before the international travel ban to stem the spread of&nbsp; the pandemic, employs 200 local community members comprising 95% of the staff complement.&nbsp;These men and women are also part of a skills development programme.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The murder of the tourist will undermine our programme to put tourism and job creation back on track as we emerge from the pandemic,&rdquo; said Minister Creecy.<\/p>\n<p><i>Distributed by APO Group on behalf of Republic Of South Africa: Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/\">Source: Africa Newsroom &#8211; APO<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Download logo The Minister of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment, Ms Barbara Creecy, condems the murder of a German tourist travelling to a community-owned safari lodge in the Kruger National Park via Numbi in Mpumalanga. &ldquo;I appeal to the Mpumalanga police to work tirelessly to bring the perpetrators of this heinous crime to book,&rdquo; said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":239059,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4584],"tags":[4585],"class_list":{"0":"post-239058","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-africa-news-2","8":"tag-apo","9":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/minister-barbara-creecy-condemns-the-murder-of-a-german-tourist-travelling-to-a-community-owned-safari-lodge-in-the-kruger-national-park.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239058\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}