Department of Tourism Deputy Minister, Fish Mahlalela officially launched the Mont’Dor Orpen Kruger Lodge in Mpumalanga on Thursday.Department of Tourism Deputy Minister, Fish Mahlalela officially launched the Mont’Dor Orpen Kruger Lodge in Mpumalanga on Thursday.
Three years ago the Cooperative was funded R5 million by Industrial Development Corporation to get the project off the ground. This helped the Cooperative establish a lodge next to the Manyeleti Game Reserve. Over 8 000 people from the nearby village will benefit.Welverdiend is one of the rural villages faced with high unemployment. A few years ago young people in the area formed a cooperative with the aim of creating job opportunities.
Clifford Mathebula, a member of the Cooperative, believes that partnering with different agencies would help their business thrive.Mathebula explains, “If MTPA can help us by dropping the fence we can be a viable or feasible business where we can charge double, and also will help us in terms of the animals’ movement. They will be able to get in here and be shown to our tourists that are going to visit our lodge.
Wasnt a German tourist killed there in the last couple of weeks?
I give it 6 months until its destroyed and bankrupt.