FOR sale: 2 000 white rhinos and two farms on 8 500 hectares of North West bushveld paradise.
The price? Around $10 million (R193m), but buyers will need to have very, very deep pockets over and above paying the asking price.
The rhinos on this land form the world’s largest private herd – one-fifth of the global white rhino population – and farming and protecting the animals is an expensive business.
Just ask John Hume (81), owner of the Platinum Rhino Project who’s throwing in the towel after nearly three decades of rhino breeding and conservation.
It breaks his heart, but he simply can’t carry on any longer.
“It’s impossible to say what these 2 000 rhinos have cost me,”
