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Originally posted by Code4:

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Originally posted by shakari:

Hope you'll excuse me saying that according to the Global Peace Index here you'll find that RSA scores 118 & Zimbabwe 140.

The good news is Mozambique scores 48 & incidentally, the USA scores 82.

Move to Australia Steve. We score 18. Portugal might be 17 but their wine really is shit.

The day you find Steve drinking anything other than a really good single malt, take a look out the window. There will be a real big rock coming from out there?

Hunter dies in wife’s arms
August 8 2011 at 09:28am
By ANNA COX


Professional game hunter Devlin Carton-Barber has been shot and killed in front of his wife while taking two American tourists on safari near the Kruger National Park.

Devlin and Jo-anne, who lived in Fourways, north of Joburg, booked into the Glory Hill Country Manor in White River, on the edge of the Kruger Park, with the tourists.

After they had checked in, Devlin went to the bathroom, and while there he heard a noise.

When he investigated, he was confronted by a man threatening to shoot Jo-anne. When he tried to protect her, he was shot.

Devlin died in his wife’s arms.

The intruder then escaped with Jo-anne’s handbag, which had no money in it – “not even a R1 coin”, as a relative put it.

The tourists were in another room and did not see the shooting. However, they immediately cut short their safari visit to South Africa.

Devlin’s uncle, Ed Carton-Barber, explained that because there was no accommodation in the park, the couple and the tourists had booked into the lodge.

He said more American clients arrived on Sunday, and the family, who run a tourist safari and game hunting business, had informed them of the murder and gave them the choice of cancelling their tour.

“We handed them over to another company. We have not yet heard whether they decided to stay or go, but this is bad news for South Africa.

“The tourists who were with Devlin are going to go back to the States. It is not good for South African tourism.”

Carton-Barber was educated at Christian Brothers’ College in Boksburg. He studied game ranging management at the Tshwane University of Technology and was working on a postgraduate degree in conservation when he was murdered.


“Devlin was an exceptional young man and brought joy and light into everyone’s lives,” his uncle said.

“His passing is bringing unspeakable grief to the family and friends. I am not over-dramatising, but his memory will live on forever.”

He found it sad that his nephew was supposed to go to Texas to do his postgraduate degree in March, but that the plan had fallen through at the last minute.

Ed said he had heard that there had been a number of attacks on tourists in the area.

However, White River police commissioner Wessie van der Westhuizen denied this.

“This is the first murder we have heard of in a long time in the White River area,” he said, adding that they were working on leads, but no arrests had been made.


Linda Godley who runs the guesthouse, referred The Star to the police. - The Star

Holy Crap; I hunted with Devlin in 2008 and Jo (his fiance at the time) helped out at the lodge. Wonderful people. His father runs Xomaqua Lodge.

Was just thinking about him yesterday. He was starting a Website/Company kind of like Monster.Com for wildlife related jobs in RSA.



Rest in peace Bwana.

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Originally posted by Nakihunter:
I knew that this debate would go down this slippery track the moment apartheid was brought in.

Yes all those things like schools, hospitals & roads were built during apartheid. But how many people benefited from it? A very small minority. During that period a small number of farmers with average holdings & using local labour at very low wages enjoyed a very high quality lifestyle that no farmer in any other country in the world could have enjoyed or even dreamed of. Farming (except some elitist / niche products like truffles etc) by its definition is one of the lowest paying and highest risk profession unless it is heavily subsidised / protected / artificially controlled.

For all the schools, hospitals etc built during apartheid there were an even higher number of indigenous Africans and other ethnic groups who were killed, imprisoned with out trial and the huge number of tribes, villages and families whose homes were confiscated & were forcibly moved out. All that is beyond recovery & I am amazed that people still talk favourably about apartheid!

What does all that have to do with this poor PH who was murdered and his family who are grieving now?

You just don't get it. You really have to come to grips with your racial outlook of the world.

You try to justify and equate immoral acts by some other acts that the victim had nothing to do with.

Acts of violence should not be tolerated by all in society.

RIP Devlin.


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