MY LOVELY LITTLE BOKKIES
YOU South Africa|21 January 2021
When she came across two injured baby springbok, Sunel couldn’t simply let nature take its course – now she’s their surrogate mom
JACQUES MYBURGH
MY LOVELY LITTLE BOKKIES

A YOUNG woman sets off for a stroll with her pets on leashes. Nothing extraordinary about that, you may think – until you take a closer look.

The two tawny creatures on the leashes aren’t dogs but springbok and they keep their owner on her toes, gambolling about like, well, the young buck they are.

But Sunel van der Merwe doesn’t mind. She’ll do anything for the two bokkies that might well have been a jackal’s dinner if this farm girl from Warrenton in the Northern Cape hadn’t come to their rescue.

Sunel (23) is a manager on her dad Kriek’s farm, which keeps mostly Simbra cattle.

But here at her parents’ guesthouse in town you’ll find a veritable menagerie of animals.

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