Up to 2014 game prices in South Africa soared, driven by a small number of wealthy buyers. Some game species saw prices at auctions soar by 5 times over the course of six years. In that year game ranching was valued at over 12 billion Rand. One saw the likes of billionaires Anton Rupert paying the obscene price of R 40 million for a single Buffalo bull, Cyril Ramaphosa joined the fray paying similar prices. Then along came the mutant colour forms, the ‘Golden Wildebeest’ (we have blogged ...


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