PinkHunt in theKaroo

When you are tested by life and the carpet is ripped from under you with a breast cancer diagnosis on an October morning, you feel as if the hole is getting deeper and deeper and that the pain and sadness of life is getting too much.

You then cling to your loved ones, seek comfort and help in your faith, and approach the treatment path with devotion. You must live! Sometimes life is merciless, and you end up standing in front of an open grave on a January morning and mourn the loved one who passed away.

My hunting journey began in 2017, with the privilege of being part of an ancient act of survival whereby you are part of nature and hunt to provide for your family. Subsistence hunting became my way and gave me an opportunity to live again.

In the hunting world, the norm is for a man and his friends to announce one morning: “Darling, me and the guys are going hunting”. But for a woman to simply load a hunting rifle into the bakkie, closing the door behind her to go out and announce to the world that she’s going hunting, does not happen every day.

The main goal of PinkHunt is to empower women hunters

This even in a time where social distancing, hand sanitisers and face masks have become the hallmarks of our existence. So many obstacles stand in the way of a woman doing this on her own.

This is where the PinkHunt concept originated. Empowerment of the woman hunter