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Cover / Voorblad Die Hartmann se sebra is een van Afrika se taaiste diere om te jag. Ondanks die feit dat hulle tans slegs tot een kontinent, nl Afrika beperk is, het hulle op die uitgestrekte vlaktes van Noord-Amerika ontwikkel as twee verskillende groepe sebras − Grevy se sebra en die berg- en vlaktesebras. Lees meer op bl 30. Foto: © Mark Wardle / Alamy / AfriPics Geweer: Strasser bl 64
ALLERLEI / MISCELLANEOUS
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Die bontebok
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JAG / HUNTING
Anno Hecker passed away in Germany 7 Jagwenke – Noodhulp vir jagters: Tropiese en ander veldsiektes 27 Those big ones are still out there! 38 Africa’s Sportsman Show 42 Heart of the Huntress 48 HARTMANN SE SEBRA Spesie-spesifieke jag – Die Hartmann se bergsebra 30 Hartmann se sebra in die Khomas Hochland 51 Bull at first light 60 Nuutskepping in wildveilings 66 Jaglegendes – Johan Calitz 68 Jaggeleenthede 73 Chasa: Stephen Palos Letter 74 The Border Hunting Club 75 Jagfotogalery 78 GEWERE & AMMUNISIE / GUNS & AMMUNITION
Swarovski’s EL Range 10x42 Merkel Ultimate “Veldskiet” Gong Challenge Bullet Talk Kalibers & ammunisie – Die megakalibers: .500’s en .600’s BHA Grouping Competition, Tzaneen Toonbankstories – ’n Tyd van nabetragting … Strasser – Passionate Innovation
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WILDPRODUKSIE, -BESTUUR & -BEMARKING / GAME PRODUCTION, RANCHING & MARKETING
Veilingsuitslae 84−85 Veilingsverslae: WRSA 121 Legislation – What to do if arrested 67 Lewendewild-handel – Genetika onder die vergrootglas 88 Changing global dynamics 90 Risikobestuur van wild – Diere se keuse van besluit – Toepassing 92 Land Reform – Reaction to new legislation 96 Tebogo Mogashoa Wildboerdery 98 Ekobos – ’n Kosbare hulpbron 100
Uit die Woord
“Dra mekaar se laste, en gee op dié manier uitvoering aan die Wet van Christus.” Gal 6:2.
Grondhervorming – Toekomsstrategie Land financing Managing variation in game breeding Villa Crop – New partnership Gehalte-wildsvleis (7) – Vries Bontebok – Back from the brinks Leeubedryf wil sy huis in orde kry
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Wildbemarking-advertensies – indeks
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NATUUR & BEWARING / NATURE & CONSERVATION
Natuurlewe-pitkos – Ongenaakbare obsessies Proactive Anti-poaching – Perimeter, gate and and security Indringerplante – Bestuur van inheemse indringerplante Deel 7 Herkoms van SA wildname (5) Weskusbetowering – Dorre kraaltjieveld
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GEREELD / REGULAR & ALGEMEEN / GENERAL
Briewe Teken in en wen! / Subscribe and win! WILD & JAG digitaal en op Facebook! 4x4 – Die Kalahari bly mooi Kook saam – Koue wildsvleisbord vir Kersete Boeke Organisasies – Kontakbesonderhede
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Die gerapporteerde stelling van minister Nkwinti ná afloop van die ANC se algemene raadsvergadering in Oktober 2015, naamlik dat dit nou dié party se amptelike beleid is dat boere Jan van der Walt die helfte van hul plase met hul werkers moet deel, het boere Hoofredakteur / Editor-in-chief in onsekerheid gedompel. Dit is teenstrydig met die minister se onderneming tydens ’n vergadering van die georganiseerde landbousektor op 22 Mei 2015. Dié onderneming het onder andere behels dat grondeienaars toegelaat sal word om hul eie vennote te kies, dat daar nie ’n enkele model sal wees nie en dat daar insentiewe sal wees om deelname aan te moedig. Agri SA se dienooreenkomstige standpunt is vroeg in Oktober 2015 aan ’n ministeriële taakspan voorgelê. By die ter perse gaan van hierdie tydskrif het Agri SA nog nie uitklaring van die ANC gekry oor dié party se presiese bedoeling met hul verklaring nie. Behalwe dat ons populistiese uitsprake van die regering te wagte kan wees met die dalende lidmaatskap van die ANC en ’n verkiesing op hande, bestaan die wesenlike gevaar dat die regering wetgewing sal deurforseer om hul doel te bereik en dat boere hulle tot die howe sal moet wend. Onlangse uitlatings deur die topampsdraers van die ANC oor die magte van die howe is egter nie gerusstellend nie. Ons regering het reeds gewys dat hy in staat is om die howe te ignoreer en die integriteit van senior regsbeamptes onder verdenking te plaas met uitlatings soos “die howe is nie die ANC se baas”, “hooggeregshowe se negatiewe narratiewe teen die regering” en “As die hof reëls begin dikteer aan die parlement – dis om te oorreageer”. – Pasopa wena!
Ons wens al ons lesers – jagters, wildboere en bewaarders / liefhebbers van ons natuur – liefde, vrede en vreugde toe oor die Kerstyd. The reported statement of Minister Nkwinti following the ANC National General Council meeting of the ANC in October 2015, namely that it is now the party’s official policy that farmers are to share half their farms with their labourers, has left farmers with a great deal of uncertainty. This contradicts the minister’s undertaking during a meeting of the organised agricultural sector on 22 May 2015. This undertaking entails, among other things, that landowners be allowed to choose their own partners, that there will not be a single model, and that there will be incentives to encourage participation. Agri SA’s corresponding statement was submitted to a ministerial task team early in October 2015. At the time of going to press of this magazine, Agri SA had not yet received clarification from the ANC as to what exactly the party meant by their statement. Apart from the fact that we could expect populist utterances from government with dwindling ANC membership and the forthcoming elections, there is a real danger that government will force legislation in order to achieve its goal and that farmers will have to turn to the courts for help. However, recent statements by top ANC officials about the powers of the courts are anything but reassuring. Our government has already showed that it is able to ignore the courts and cast suspicion on the integrity of senior legal officials with remarks such as “the courts are not the master of the ANC”, “supreme courts’ negative narratives against government” and “If the court starts laying down the rules to parliament – it boils down to overreaction”. – Pasopa wena!
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nno Hecker has died at the age of 87 years in his home in Germany on 12 October this year. Anno had been a tsetse control officer, a lecturer and a project leader at the wildlife college in Tanzania between 1955 and 1968. Upon his return to Germany, he was the forester in charge of a forestry district for another 23 years. Situated in the Eifel, a low mountain range in Western Germany, this forestry district is now a national park with excellent red deer and wild boar populations. Anno had always been a passionate hunter – in Africa and likewise in Germany. Growing up as the son of a wellknown church painter in Cologne, he studied forestry in post-war Germany. In 1955, he accepted the invitation of his wife’s uncle to go to Tanganyika, the former German colony, and manage eucalyptus plantations. But that turned out to be a flop, and the greenhorn signed on instead as a tsetse control officer. His task was now mainly to cull all kind of wildlife in order to fight the tsetse flies. Thus young Hecker learned big-game hunting from scratch. Two years after independence, the College of African Wildlife Management, Mweka, was established near Moshi at the foot of Kilimanjaro. The Federal Republic of Germany assisted
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Anno Hecker Passed Away in Germany
the running of the college as part of its development cooperation. Anno became the responsible German project manager and also worked as a senior lecturer. He was also the instructor for the practical hunting training. His hunting skills are legendary and still remembered in Tanzania. At the Hunting Fair in Dortmund, Germany, a Tanzanian Wildlife director, one of his former students, said, “This man knows more about big game and African hunting than anybody else at the whole exhibition.” He had spoken in English, and the response is typical of Anno, who responded by saying, “How good that hardly anyone here understands English.” Anno himself recounts some of his adventures in the many articles that he wrote for hunting magazines and in his book, This is Africa! (Rowland Ward 2007). This book, subtitled Thorns, thirst and tsetse flies, also shows his dry and profound humour. The laugh lines were always visible on his face. His 13 years in Africa were the best ones of his life, he told me once. Africa did not let go until the very end. “Nowhere is the sky bluer than in Africa,” he wrote as dedication in my copy of his book. Between 1970 and 2002, he set out from the Eifel for an African safari every year. Either he visited his daughter Katharina,
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who has inherited the artistic talent of her grandfather and works as one of Africa’s best taxidermists in Pretoria, or he went hunting in the east, south or west of the continent. “Anno Hecker has rendered outstanding services to the Federal Republic of Germany,” wrote the permanent secretary of the German ministry for economic cooperation to Anno when he retired from his work at the Mweka Wildlife College in 1968. Once again a typical reaction from Anno, and I pass over to him: Surely a noble gesture but admittedly not as much appreciated as the words of an old, illiterate tracker from the Luwegu River in the Selous. In the 1980s, when a friend had wounded an elephant, I asked our professional hunter, a Maasai, whether he would allow me to finish off the wounded beast, which had gone into the thick stuff. The Maasai handed over his .458 FN Mauser with pleasure for the coup de grâce. On entering the thicket, Mfupa, the withered old tracker, wanted to guide me, an offer I kindly declined, as I preferred to go alone on probably the last elephant hunt of my life. Whereupon Mfupa, with a respectful look in his eyes, remarked in Kiswahili, ‘Huyu, huyu ni Mzee ya zamani – ah, this one is still one of the old ones from very long ago.’” 3
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