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From Yvonne Verkaik, October 2006:
"Although burdened with mixed feelings about leaving Ziwa, I'm happy to introduce you to my successor: Deren Coetzer. "Deren has a good experience in game ranch management. Having grown up on a game ranch in South Africa and having worked at various game ranches, he has been involved in many aspects of game ranching that are valuable to our situation - electric fencing, game captures, wildlife counts, carrying capacity planning, microlight flying, preparing management plans, budget control, diesel mechanics, road construction, building of camps etc. He also has a diploma in Game Ranch Management (Pretoria Tech). "Deren has started his employment on the 1st of October, so at the moment we are working together to ensure a thorough handover for a seamless continuation of the project. I am very confident that Deren will carry the rhino re-introduction project to its next level.
"Bruce and I will leave Uganda around the 15th of October, to allow a handover with the current owner of our farm in France before we take over on the 1st of November."