A MAN who gunned down an elephant in the Kruger National Park and hacked out its 65kg tusks, was sentenced to 20 years in the Skukuza Magistrate’s Court on Wednesday. The sentence is the stiffest given in the history of the South African National Parks. The poacher, Shalate Khoza, is currently also serving a 10-year jail sentence for poaching a rhino last year. He was arrested for the elephant kill on July 26 this year when a senior ranger, Don English, caught him in the park with elephant meat, an automatic rifle and nine rounds of ammunition. Khoza was sentenced to eight years in jail for the possession of an illegal firearm, ten years in jail for illegally hunting elephant and two years for the illegal possession of ammunition.