MANNETJIE Ganaseb is probably the only person in Namibia who can claim to have been trapped underneath a wild, black rhino and lived to tell the tale. Ganaseb, the Manager of Save The Rhino (STR) Trust’s camel patrol team, was lucky to escape with his life after a close encounter with a black rhino cow and her calf near Khowarib in the Kunene region last month. He survived several charges by the over-protective mother. His clothes were torn off his back by the rhino’s horn and he ended up being trapped underneath the 1,5 ton wild animal. The rhino also sprayed Ganaseb with mucous. “If it was not for the donkeys who received all her attention, I would not have been here today,” a wide-eyed Ganaseb said. – The Namibian