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12 December 2012

Game farmer wants charges dropped

Editor’s note, November 2026

In June 2015 the North Gauteng High Court in Pretoria ordered the National Prosecuting Authority to honour the agreement under which the Kempton Park charges against Marnus Steyl were withdrawn in November 2012, and interdicted it from prosecuting him on the Vryburg charges or on any other charges arising from the same facts (Steyl v National Director of Public Prosecutions [2015] ZAGPPHC 407, 9 June 2015).

Game farmer Marnus Steyl claims that the hunt featured in this eNCA report was legal and that he had no idea that an international syndicate was using the hunts to obtain rhino horn for black market medicine. Karyn Maughan reports…

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