Environmental Affairs Minister, Edna Molewa, has welcomed the stiff sentences imposed on three Mozambican rhino poachers.
The men were sentenced in the Phalaborwa Regional Court yesterday to 25 years each for illegal hunting of rhinos in the Kruger National Park in 2010.
Department spokesperson, Albie Modise, says they are satisfied with the outcome of the case.
He says Minister Molewa believes the court sentence will send a strong message
and hopefully act as a deterrent to poachers and would be poachers.
It is hoped that this sentence coupled with anti-poaching activities that the government has embarked on with various law enforcement agencies will act as a deterrent to poachers.
