Background
He is the son of Cas and Margaret Bakkes and the brother of C. Johan Bakkes.
He is the son of Cas and Margaret Bakkes and the brother of C. Johan Bakkes.
Foreign a time he worked as a game ranger in the Kruger National Park, where during the early 1990s he was involved in elephant culling, a practice to which he developed ethical objections. In 1994 he suffered serious injury inside the park in a crocodile attack. Hereafter he commenced a new career in die Damaraland desert, where he acts as guide and conservation official for Wilderness Safaris.
He is described as a fan of punk rock music