During 2018, we spent a lot of time obtaining stakeholder feedback on the kinds of programmes we could offer that would lead to job placement. This was largely as a result of the fact that a number of students who completed our SADC programme in 2017 were yet to be absorbed into the industry. In...Read More
Having established a formal relationship with the Mayibuye Game Reserve (Mayibuye Community Trust specifically) in October 2017, the RISE Unit, which falls under the Community, Youth and Development department, has used a ‘learning-by-doing’ approach at the Mayibuye project site, testing methods relating to stakeholder engagement, governance and leadership in line with project objectives. This was...Read More
Looking back on this year of 2018, we have had the privilege of engaging with people from all over the world who have visited our college from both foreign and local universities. This included visits by student groups with their faculty from five different continents – Asia, Africa, Australia, America and the Europe. These groups...Read More
I had the opportunity to train our Higher Certificate in Nature Conservation Implementation and Leadership class for six days in the introductory topic of tourism. This is a very important topic for most of our students attending this particular course in Natural Resource Management mainly due to the fact that all of them work for...Read More
On Friday 26 October, the Southern African Wildlife College celebrated Founder’s Day, which is an opportunity to commemorate not only the day on which His Royal Highness Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, unveiled the foundation stone of the Southern African Wildlife College, but to highlight to fact that every staff member has played a...Read More
Early August saw the start of our second Dangerous Site Guide course for 2018. In keeping with the department’s aim of providing quality training we again only took on ten students, four of whom are from Malawi’s Department of National Parks, funded by The Royal Foundation. Other students are two young women from Makuya Trust,...Read More
The Southern African Wildlife College (SAWC’s) K9 Unit won a prestigious Kudu Award at a gala event at the Gallagher Convention Centre in Gauteng on 16 November. They shared this honour with the Meerkat Project, a high tech surveillance operation in the Kruger National Park. Both projects were recognised for their innovation and results in...Read More
The last few months have been rather strange weather wise. Normally we start to experience a few warm days during September with a light rain shower here and there, so when October arrives we already have a slightly elevated humidity factor. This coupled with blistering hot days makes for a rather uncomfortable time in the...Read More
On 21 September 2018 the Department of Environmental Affairs (DEA) released an official press release with the latest statistics on rhino poaching. Below is the breakdown of rhino lost in the various provinces for the period January to August. It’s extremely encouraging that we have observed a decrease in poaching statistics over past few months....Read More
A message from the Board of Directors We have once again successfully finalized another year of our responsibility to ensure the delivery of education, training and skills development, whilst contributing to the natural resource management of the southern African region. Amidst the welcome and generous infrastructure development funded by the German Development Bank via KfW...Read More
