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Originally posted by HJ wild:
A friend of mine, Klaus Spiegel, who is not a member of the AR Forum asked me
to publish his report about his elephant PAC hunt in Zimbabwe:

Outfitter: Evenas Makanza
PH: Joseph Chitambwe
Country/Area: Zimbabwe/Hartley/Sanyati Area
Hunted: PAC Elephant
Date: March 18. to March 24.

End of February 2014 I received an offer for a PAC elephant hunt from the German IVA (that is an German Hunters Association to help hunting in foreign countries) .

IVA member Hans J. Wild had received this offer from Evans Makanza but forwarded it to the IVA hunters because he was not able to take it up himself due to health reasons.

After a telephone discussion with Hans I quickly decided to take this hunt. Hans also helped me very much organizing this safari and translating the sometimes hectic email trafic. The safari had to be arragned rather quickly. Many thanks again to Hans for his help!

The Zimbabwean outfitter was Evans Makanza, Hans knew him form four successful big game hunts between 2001 and 2005.

A first problem turned up transfering a 50% down payment to Makanzas bank. After having transfered the money to Mankanzas bank (Barcleys branch in Vic Falls) Makanzas asked to transfer the money to another of his accounts, Barcleys branch at Harare. This request arrived on Tuesday with the hunt starting on Sunday the same week.

After this somewhat chaotic beginning arriving at Harare all the formalities was taken care of and Makanza received the second 50% of the total amount agreed upon for the safari.

Makanzas PH licence was cancelled some years back – National Parks confirmed. So he had to use Joseph Chitambwe from Great Five Safaris as Professional hunter and to organized the hunt.

I am sorry to say that the safari had several shortcomings and was unsatisfactory over all. The hunting area was new to Joseph Chitambwe. This was one of the problems. My experience with hunting trips is based on 15 safaris in Africa, Asia and Canada. On this safari the accomodations were very primitive, even compared with the usual African safari standard.

The organisation of the hunt was between not good and unprepared. The hunting locations were chosen spontaneously and were oftenly far away from the camp resulting in drives to the hunting area of four to eight hours. Oftenly the locations were totally new for the PH who then did not know how to get here. “Hunting is hunting” – that is a well known aphorism. Several times in my past hunting trips I was not able to hunt successfully. The local conditions in the hunting area were oftenly the deciding factor. I am well able to judge what was the cause for the lack of success: was it the behaviour of the game and/or the weather conditions or was it an organistional problem as in this case? Anyhow during the whole hunt I never saw one single elephant and so of course I did not shot any elephant!

On the last day in Harere airports departure hall Makanza presented the final bill. The stipulated refund of $3400,- in case no elephant was shot together with other overcharged costs were accepted from Makanza as well as J. Chitambwe. Since Makanza had not enough money to settle the debt he promised to transfer the money immediately to a bank account I specified. He gave me this in writing.

When after two weeks no money was transferred Makanza was asked why it took so long transferring the money. Makanza answered on April 11: “I did send a request to barclays checking on the status of the transfer of Klaus's money its being done it takes a while because it goes thru the central bank you know the financial situation in this country all payments going out of the country do go thru the central bank thats why it takes a while but he will get the refund”

Makanza was then confronted with Barcleys internet statement saying that they
usually transfer any nomination (pound, dollar rand etc. ) to Europe within 4 days.
I then asked Makanza to send a copy of the bank statement of his transfer.

After this I never heard from Makanza again – it was as if he had been swallowed by a black hole… I gave him another deadline to send the money – but to no avail! Up to now no money ever matrialized on my account. Guess for yourself if Makanza ever intended to pay the money he owes me!

Klaus Spiegel

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Originally posted by Thierry Labat:
Tell your friend to take this up with the German Hunters Association, as they should know that no PAC by a foreign paying client is allowed in Zimbabwe. They should have also known that Evans Makanza licence was taken away for a good reason and yet they still try and deal with him!!!!! WTF???

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Originally posted by jaegerfrank:
German IVA has no authority and no relevance. Strange that people buy into this crap. Definitely the German hunting association must not be associated with this.

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Originally posted by cal pappas:
No surprise here. I hunted with Evans in 2003. He is a joke of a PH and and absolute piece of human shit that ever walked the planet. That dick wad kept my tip money for the staff, kept the trophy fee so Parks would not release the trophy, ran a poor camp, and spent a large percentage of the time on his cell phone. Later he did lose his license--and rightly so. With his total lack of any acceptable standards of mortality and decency, I truly hope he contracts a case of the saber toothed crotch crickets and spends his final years in a Zimbabwean jail as somebody's girl friend.
Evans: if you read this fu-- you and your family.
Cal

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Outfitter: Evenas Makanza
PH: Joseph Chitambwe

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Originally posted by Buzz Charlton:
Hi HJ WILD!!

As many have said due diligence certainly was not done here and as is almost always the case a "deal" that has gone sour- apart from been illegal. The German Hunters association should not only know that PAC is illegal but they should NOT be booking with anyone outside of Zimbabwe's Professional Hunters and Guides association.

I feel sorry for Klaus- he could not have got mixed up with a worse partnership of Makanza and Chitambwe and would strongly suggest that he contacts National Parks and reports the case- I doubt very much that he will see a penny back from this hunt though!!!

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Originally posted by cal pappas:
No surprise here. I hunted with Evans in 2003. He is a joke of a PH and and absolute piece of human shit that ever walked the planet. That dick wad kept my tip money for the staff, kept the trophy fee so Parks would not release the trophy, ran a poor camp, and spent a large percentage of the time on his cell phone. Later he did lose his license--and rightly so. With his total lack of any acceptable standards of mortality and decency, I truly hope he contracts a case of the saber toothed crotch crickets and spends his final years in a Zimbabwean jail as somebody's girl friend.
Evans: if you read this fu-- you and your family.
Cal

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Originally posted by Saeed:

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Originally posted by cal pappas:
No surprise here. I hunted with Evans in 2003. He is a joke of a PH and and absolute piece of human shit that ever walked the planet. That dick wad kept my tip money for the staff, kept the trophy fee so Parks would not release the trophy, ran a poor camp, and spent a large percentage of the time on his cell phone. Later he did lose his license--and rightly so. With his total lack of any acceptable standards of mortality and decency, I truly hope he contracts a case of the saber toothed crotch crickets and spends his final years in a Zimbabwean jail as somebody's girl friend.
Evans: if you read this fu-- you and your family.
Cal

Cal,

Can you please give us some details on "the saber toothed crotch crickets"

I asked my doctor about it, and he seems to be totally ignorant of this one.

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Originally posted by infinito:

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Originally posted by Saeed:

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Originally posted by cal pappas:
No surprise here. I hunted with Evans in 2003. He is a joke of a PH and and absolute piece of human shit that ever walked the planet. That dick wad kept my tip money for the staff, kept the trophy fee so Parks would not release the trophy, ran a poor camp, and spent a large percentage of the time on his cell phone. Later he did lose his license--and rightly so. With his total lack of any acceptable standards of mortality and decency, I truly hope he contracts a case of the saber toothed crotch crickets and spends his final years in a Zimbabwean jail as somebody's girl friend.
Evans: if you read this fu-- you and your family.
Cal

Cal,

Can you please give us some details on "the saber toothed crotch crickets"

I asked my doctor about it, and he seems to be totally ignorant of this one.

They sound worse than the West Vietnamese Fighting Fleas I came across once.......man did those suckers NOT want to die!!!

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When I was in college we had a more technical term for them. We called them crabs!

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Originally posted by jorge:

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Outfitter: Evenas Makanza
PH: Joseph Chitambwe

That about covers it...

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Originally posted by GOB:
http://www.swradioafrica.com/2...of-illegal-activity/


Check the above link, it is a link to a lengthy article and broadcast by an independent short wave radio station. It goes into detail on the crooked operators in Zimmbabwe. One which the journalist mentions is Mr Buzz Charlton. It provides contact information for the journalist if she is still alive. Evans has a photograph of himself standing in front of a Mall in Zimbabwe complete with the best wrap around plastic shades on Linkedin.

Obviously one does not know if any of the information provided is true but certainly worthy of examination.