Balepye Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/balepye/ The low down on African affairs Tue, 24 Mar 2015 22:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://i0.wp.com/jjcornish.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-Fountain_Pen_favicon-812.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Balepye Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/balepye/ 32 32 Let us sell rhino horn legally, or we’ll poach it https://jjcornish.com/2015/03/let-us-sell-rhino-horn-legally-or-well-poach-it/ Tue, 24 Mar 2015 22:00:00 +0000 https://jjcornish.com/2015/03/let-us-sell-rhino-horn-legally-or-well-poach-it/ Limpopo community leader Reuben Malema says Rhino horn is a commodity that his people must be allowed to sell. Malema tells a workshop organised by the Department of Environmental Affairs if this doesn’t happen, poaching will increase because a hungry man will do anything to put food on the table. Reuben Malema was speaking to […]

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]]> Limpopo community leader Reuben Malema says Rhino horn is a commodity that his people must be allowed to sell.
Malema tells a workshop organised by the Department of Environmental Affairs if this doesn’t happen, poaching will increase because a hungry man will do anything to put food on the table.
Reuben Malema was speaking to a panel of 22 experts who’ll recommend whether or not government supports legalising the sale of rhino horn at next year’s meeting of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species.
He says members of his Balepye and Selwane Communities in Limpopo need a stake in conserving rhino otherwise there will be poaching from within their own ranks.
Malema says community involvement must be at the forefront of any decision South Africa takes to CITES.

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