Have calmed down. Some SP employees are good, some bad. No big secret.
While many including myself, still see plenty rhino along tourist roads, that is a false impression. White rhino especially are territorial, so you see the same over and over.
This one is "too close for comfort", so to speak.
I put it bluntly that the mindless moneygrabbing is getting to a stage where SP/police/Army employees are in on the act, and getting closer to tourist roads.
I know the mentality of entitlement and engorgement very well, and the tipping point is long gone!
Re: Rhino Poaching 2014
Posted: Sat Mar 01, 2014 8:30 pm
by Penga Ndlovu
I am not going to say much about it as I have been extremely p@^$#&d off since this morning and I will be banned because I WILL be abusive, I WILL be political, I WILL be false and extremely agitated and that is no goot, but I think with this I have already said more than enough and have made my point.
Re: Rhino Poaching 2014
Posted: Sat Mar 01, 2014 9:19 pm
by Richprins
No problems, Penga! What is going to happen soon is that a tourist is injured during a walk or night drive...there was an incident near Phalaborwa last year already!
Government doesn't seem to realise the financial implications of Kruger becoming a "no go" zone...the entire Lowveld will collapse financially, and massive knock on effects regarding international tourists who will seek "rhino free" destinations, ironically!
But .gov don't think long-term....
Re: Rhino Poaching 2014
Posted: Sat Mar 01, 2014 10:03 pm
by Dewi
I also want to swear and scream, but know it's a futile excersise at the moment.
My version of a protest song....
tune here......
♫♫♫
There's rhino dyin' down here
Why that is ain't exactly clear
There's a man with a gun over there
A tellin' me, I got to beware
I think it's time we stop, children, what's that sound?
Everybody look another rhino down
There's battle lines being drawn
It's keratin, non medicinal horn
Young people loosin' their minds
Not gettin' any resistance from behind
Time we stop, hey, what's that sound?
Everybody look another rhino down
What a field day for the heat
(Hmm, hmm, hmm)
A thousand rhino turned to meat
(Hmm, hmm, hmm)
Chopping horns and leaving the spines
(Hmm, hmm, hmm)
Just to say, hooray for man's pride
(Hmm, hmm, hmm)
It's time we stop, hey, what's that sound?
Everybody look another rhino down
Rhino mania strikes deep
Into your life it will creep
It starts when you're always afraid
Step out of line, the man come and take them away
We better stop, hey, what's that sound?
Everybody look another rhino down
We better stop, hey, what's that sound?
Everybody look another rhino down
We better stop, now, what's that sound?
Everybody look another rhino down
We better stop, children, what's that sound?
Everybody look another rhino down.
Re: Rhino Poaching 2014
Posted: Sat Mar 01, 2014 10:07 pm
by Richprins
Good man, Dewi!
Re: Rhino Poaching 2014
Posted: Sat Mar 01, 2014 10:09 pm
by Twigga
Dewi!
Q - Do Rhino Poaching get much media coverage overseas?
Re: Rhino Poaching 2014
Posted: Sat Mar 01, 2014 10:14 pm
by nan
Re: Rhino Poaching 2014
Posted: Sat Mar 01, 2014 10:16 pm
by Dewi
Twigga wrote: Dewi!
Q - Do Rhino Poaching get much media coverage overseas?