The Msunduze Valley has always been suitable for wildlife and traditional Zulu (Nguni) cattle. It was a seasonal grazing area and traditional hunting area of the Zulu clans that lived away from the valley. Lack of water and disease (Malaria and Ngana- sleeping sickness) precluded habituation. After the First World War the area was subdivided into small (uneconomical) ranching and cropping units. Gradually these were developed, boreholes drilled and later were amalgamated into larger cattle ranching units, and then into game ranches, eventually culminating into the Zululand Rhino Reserve of today. In 2005 the ZRR received a SOCS award (Sight of conservation significance), and we are currently in the process of proclaiming the area under the Protected areas act. Launch On the 14 October 2005 the Zululand rhino reserve celebrated the official opening of this endangered species reserve as well as the release of our twenty- one Black Rhino.
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