Final respects paid to biking 'rhino poacher'

22 March 2020 - 00:00 By TONY CARNIE

Dressed in leather jackets, boots and specially made memorial T-shirts, dozens of bikers gathered near the Kruger National Park boundary last weekend to pay their last respects to "Baas Leon" - a man fellow motorcyclists described as a "soldier" and a "brother"...

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