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I'm your host, Farinaq Amidi.
Kruger National Park in South Africa is one of the most famous nature reserves in the world.
But like so many things in South Africa, it has a complicated history.
It is named after a man called Paul Kruger.
He founded the park to protect nature.
But for many South Africans he is viewed as a relic of the country's racist past,
as he was one of those responsible for driving black Africans off their land,
and is seen by some as an architect of the country's later system of legalized racial segregation known as apartheid.
We have a clip of a black South African man who worked in Kruger Park during apartheid in 1968.
Ironically,
it is in the Kruger National Park that Africans are allowed to carry guns in order to protect the whites against the wild animals.
As a black man,
I have come to realize that the animals have far better freedom than the black people of this country.
The Kruger National Park is segregated in the sense that They're separate facilities for both black and white.
So one will come to realize that the animals have a far and a better freedom of movement than the African people.
Apartheid was officially ended in 1994, 26 years after this man was speaking.
But South Africa is still reckoning with its past and with Paul Kruger.
The economic freedom fighters say the defacing of the Paul Kruger statue in Pretoria is part of the nationwide campaign to bring down all apartheid-era statues.