Don't give them money or alcohol

The hunting trip I referred to earlier, started of with going over an extensive list of rules. Since there are guns and people involved it can get dangerous. Most stuff was pretty standard like; don't drive around with a loaded gun; always point the gun upwards; don't shoot a bok who fell or trembled over something, please give him a fair chance; don't wander away from the place at which you were dropped of, you might end up walking into some others shooting range.


Two of the rules really stood out for me. Those were the ones that concerned the people who came along to locate the animals and drive closer to the hunters. They were local (coloured) people. According to the farmer we had to treat them with respect. "You will see that I will treat them with respect and they treat me with respect and I want you to do the same". Wow, treat people with respect? Does he really have to explain that? According to my South-Africans friends there are still lots of white people out there who need to be reminded of that. The second rule was: " Don't give them money or alcohol. Otherwise they will come back for it time after time and bother not only you but also the people who come after you. If you really want to give them something you can give them some food". We're still talking about people here right? Not dogs?