Fri May 24 10:16:32 SAST 2013

Strange trio linked to illegal rhino trade

Jul 5, 2012 | Sapa | 7 comments

A fruit and vegetable vendor, a Transnet employee and a driving school owner will appear in the Durban Magistrate’s Court today on charges of dealing in rhino horns.

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Fri May 24 10:16:33 SAST 2013 ::
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Jul 5, 2012

CheeseBoy

The punishment should fit the crime.

drop them in the middle of Kruger national park with nothing but a knife. and let them survive rhinos and other wild animals there. who ever survives gets to walk away.
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Jul 5, 2012

LBS

If the safety of our rhino can't be guaranteed why worry about this trash?
Let them suffer the consequences of dealing in/and destroying our willd life.

To view the horrific suffering caused by this scum go to

http ://www.indiegogo.com/rhinos?a=747499

remove the space between http and :
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Jul 5, 2012

LBS

Hi CheeseBoy - The rhino don't get a fighting chance why should they?

No knife no weapons of any sort. Hopefully they would get caught in a snare and suffer a long painful death!!
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Jul 5, 2012

eisleben

Transnet people are 'always' involved in the horn crime value chain. Maybe they are used as couriers. I know of one dude who was caught with an elephant tuks a while ago. A strange trio, not.
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Jul 5, 2012

Rosco

Can afford R 20 000.00 bail selling fruits and veggies,does he own the fruit farm?Clearly they are not falsely accused.
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Jul 5, 2012

shaharazad

Hi Cheeseboy & LBS- That is poetic justice, eye for an eye.

If they can afford R20K bail, who said they wont abscond and go to retrieve their hidden 'stock' and disappear? Rhino horn trade is lucrative to these walking oil-slicks. The judge should set the bail at R25million each and place them under house arrest
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Jul 5, 2012

CheeseBoy

@LBS

you right, a knife is too much. they need to be unprotected just like the rhinos they hunt.
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