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Damn, how many times are they changing the dates ?

On the road side between Vic falls and Hwange are 2 game enclosures, high fence with cloth walls. Inside are many sable, females, calves and some bulls with the biggest horns i have seen. Beautiful animals!
It was suggested to me that these were sable owned by Bronkhorst and that the bomas were on his game farm.
I mentioned the trouble with the 'smuggling' and was told that it was the South African clients that wanted to avoid VAT (or similar) that had caused the problem.
When i asked about his invlovement with the lion hunt i was told that he was well connected and nothing would happen to him.
This point of view was expressed by at least 3 other Zimbos i met during the trip (no connection between them).
There was also a suggestion that he had a son who had guided the hunt and he was taking the fall for the son, though this was only one persons suggestion and not coroborated by anyone else.
On the same trip i was on a 'game drive' when an English lady asked our guide, choked with emotion, "How is Cecil's family going" ? I bit my tongue for a while and then asked her if she knew how the the family of the guide killed was going??? Surprise, surprise she knew nothing of Quin Swales.
A totally different mindset for sure!
Stu

From yesterday: HWANGE magistrate court Tuesday refused a hunter’s request to drop charges against him for failing to stop the killing of Cecil the lion by an American, who just days ago was cleared by the government.

The government last week said it would not charge Walter Palmer, the American dentist who used a bow and arrow to kill Cecil, a rare, black-manned lion outside Hwange National Park.

A Hwange magistrate dismissed Bronkhorst’s application to have his indictment quashed, as well as his request to be allowed to ask the Constitutional Court to rule on whether his rights had been infringed upon.

His trial has been set for Nov. 20.

Prosecutors say they will call five witnesses, including the owner of the game park where Cecil was killed.

The park’s agency has said prosecutors also plan to present 13-year-old Cecil’s head in court as evidence.

The euphemistically-named landowner "Honest" Ndlovu is now a state witness, which is interesting if predictable. Though he is still facing a different charge in the matter.

Cecil's head is a touch of the macabre.

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Originally posted by Todd Williams:
So, wasn't the trial date for the PH and landowner set as August 28th? Anyone hear details of how it went? Is there a trail underway? Do tell?