Little girl's plea over rhinos prompts president to reply

April 17th, 2012

A little girl's plea over keeping South Africa's rhinos safe has touched the heart of President Jacob Zuma and prompted him to reply, Times Live reports.

The letter from seven-year-old Afeefah Patel of Evans Park (as seen above) was sent to the editor of Joburg-based newspaper, The Times and Mr. Zuma was quick to respond to her in the same manner, through the paper.

In his letter addressed to Ms Afeefah Patel, the president said: ""Thank you very much for your touching letter on the plight of the rhinos, which was published in The Times newspaper on April 16 2012.

"I am happy that at such a young age you have an interest in your environment and want to play a role in its protection.

"I want you to know that our government has been as highly concerned at the staggering numbers of rhinos that have been killed in just this year alone. I am told that the total number is over 103 rhinos."

For more of the president's letter, visit Times Live.

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Submitted by peet rudolph on Tue, 04/17/2012 - 16:04.

Why must our country lose our entire natural live to Chinese?
Abalone from the cape the rhino`s from our entire country.
Other animals like lions, cheetahs are getting murdered by the hunger of the Chinese.
We have the green scorpions to protect our environment.
But seems the green scorpions just don’t get it done.
We have the SANDF that is not active, with soldiers on the payroll that are stagnated in training camps doing nothing day after day.
Deploy them!!
Major unemployment problem under South- Africans youth re- instate 1 or 2 year military training.
Train them and use them to protect our environment. We have the Kruger Park hundreds of hectares that needed protection. And also many other natural parks and coast lines and border lines to be protected against poachers.
Please think what it can do for our country and environment. We have to protect our own country the Chinese will not they will rape and cripple South Africa.