Pretoria - A well-known East Rand family has put up a whopping R1 million reward to “strike fear in the hearts” of the masterminds of a recent rhino attack on their game reserve. “We’re after the kingpins, not the poachers,” Franco D’Arrigo, of Springs, said this week of the unprecedented reward amount for the rhino killings. “We’re taking the fight to them. We want to nail them. We will never get to the end of rhino poaching in this country if we don’t get the kingpins.” His family’s reward is for the “successful arrest, prosecution and recovery of the stolen rhino horn” of those involved in an attack on the three dehorned rhinos on their father’s reserve, in the Soutpansberg area on October 28. Armed poachers shot dead two rhino, injuring another, but she and her calf survived. In 2010, poachers slaughtered another bull on their property. No arrests have been made in either case. The reward, believes D’Arrigo, will create chaos between rival gangs.
Posted on: Sun, 16 Nov 2014 07:30:14 +0000