
Pongola
Town in South AfricaWikipedia
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Search complete. 11 mentions across 5 episodes found for "Pongola".
Oct 16, 2026
Flashback - Carlo & Hugo Engelbrecht | Rhino Wars
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4:59RobbieHOST
Yeah
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4:59Carlo EngelbrechtGUEST
... uh, the southern part of Swaziland, you, you, you will find, um, uh, a s- the small town Pongola.
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5:07RobbieHOST
Yeah.
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5:07Carlo EngelbrechtGUEST
And, uh, j- just, just to the west of that on the, on, on the highlands, you get Paul Pietersburg, Vryheid, Dundee, that small settlement th-there that is, um, uh, it's a promo- uh, mainly German settlement.
9 MINS LATER
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14:39RobbieHOST
I get to see parts of South Africa that very, very few South Africans get to see, and they're exceptional.
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14:47Carlo EngelbrechtGUEST
Yeah, definitely.
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14:49RobbieHOST
Like the, the place that you guys live, the Makuzi area, Makuzi Game Reserve, Pongola area, I don't think many South Africans realize it's almost wild Africa.
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15:02RobbieHOST
It's like you can take, put yourself, drop somebody in the middle of Makuzi Falls and, and I was there with Gary Kelly in April.
Pilot, TV Presenter & Adventurer ✈️ The Incredible Story of Wouter Botes
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2:20Wouter BotesGUEST
The dream started when I was extremely small.
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2:23Wouter BotesGUEST
I was about six or seven years old, and my dad bought a Mercedes in Vryheid in Natal, and we were living in Pongola.
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2:31Wouter BotesGUEST
And a very well-known family in Pongola, the Rouliats, they had a plane, and we were friends with them.
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2:39Wouter BotesGUEST
And his dad, this, this friend of mine, his dad said, "Why don't you use our plane to go and fetch this M- Mercedes or this car that you bought in Vryheid? My pilot will take you." So I got into this little plane with my dad.
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2:54Wouter BotesGUEST
It was 182 at that stage.
Flashback: Is A Rhino Hunt Conservation? Part 1.
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66:18RobbieHOST
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66:19RobbieHOST
in the strip from, in Kwazulu-Natal from, like, Ladysmith down to Pongola, used to be, I think he said 18 rhino owners, and today there's three.
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66:30LewisGUEST
Hm.
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66:34RobbieHOST
Because it doesn't work for them.
ECR Newswatch @ 10H01
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1:47Nushera SudhiyalCORRESPONDENT
The police's Robert Nechuenda says he's been connected to a rape in Matlabatini in January 2010.
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1:54Robert NetshiundaSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Whilst out on bail, he allegedly raped seven women in Pongola, four women in Primrose and Jamestown in the Chauteng province, and one woman each in Paul Petersburg and Magudu policing precincts.
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2:03Robert NetshiundaSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
His murderous operandi was to break either a window or a door of houses of women who were staying alone and threatening them with a knife.
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2:10Robert NetshiundaSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
During his arrest in 2010, police did due diligence in collecting evidence, and investigations linked him to all the cases through DNA analysis.
ECR Newswatch @ 08H59
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0:38speaker_1HOST
He was arrested in that matter and later released on bail.
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0:42Robert NetshiundaSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Whilst out on bail, he allegedly raped seven women in Pongola, four women in Primrose and Jamestown in the Chauteng province, and one woman each in Paul Petersburg and Magudu policing precincts.
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0:52Robert NetshiundaSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
His mother's operandi was to break either a window or a door of houses of women who were staying alone and threatening them with a knife.
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0:58Robert NetshiundaSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
During his arrest in 2010, Police did due diligence in collecting evidence and investigations linked him to all the cases through DNA analysis.