killingforprofit.com, 2012 to 2019
This site accompanied the publication of Killing for Profit in November 2012. Between November 2012 and September 2017 it carried more than 60 posts on the cases, people and syndicates in the book, alongside reviews, an extract, court documents and broadcast interviews.
The text is preserved as it was published. Dated editor’s notes record what happened later in the cases, and links that no longer work point to archived copies.
The book
A terrifying true story of greed and corruption
The 2012 description, publisher details and the Alan Paton shortlist.
Extract
Poacher’s Moon
Two mounds of earth under the dead limbs of a marula tree mark the spot where Dario Zitha and his friend, Maqombisi Mongwe, are buried.
Reviews
“One of the most important works of investigative reporting to come out of the southern Africa region”
Ron Nixon, New York Times, writing in Southern African Muckraking
Documents
Court papers and reports
US indictment of Dawie Groenewald, October 2014. Rhino horn moratorium judgment, 2015. Tipping Point, part 1, GI-TOC, 2016.
From the blog
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Rhino horn trafficker Dawie Groenewald fined R2m after landmark 16-year case
Sixteen years after the spectacular arrest of notorious game farmer, hunting outfitter and rhino horn trafficker Dawie Groenewald, one of South Africa’s longest-running wildlife crime prosecutions grinds to an end this week, with Groenewald expected to plead guilty to hundreds…
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Diplomats and Deceit – North Korea’s Criminal Activities in Africa
A new report written for The Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime by Julian Rademeyer, the author of Killing for Profit, lifts the lid on state-sanctioned North Korean criminal activity in Africa, exposing diplomats and embassies linked to illicit trade in rhino…
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Organised criminal gangs behind rhino horn processing in South Africa
A TRAFFIC report has revealed disturbing new evidence that some criminal networks of Chinese origin operating in South Africa are now processing rhino horn locally into beads, bracelets, bangles and powder to evade detection and provide ready-made products to consumers…
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