Chapter 19
Sannie, hands on hips, surveyed the task force she had put together to search the entire village of Killarney by the light of the new day.
There were four uniformed officers, two men and two women, and a pair of guys from the Kruger Park Stock Theft and Endangered Species unit there on the promise that their search might turn up a weapon used in the reserve or some rhino horn. There was also Sipho’s illegal reptile collection to deal with.
‘Be careful,’ Sannie said to them. ‘We’ve had people shot in cold blood here and let me remind you that this sort of thing usually does not happen here. This is not Joburg. This is Mpumalanga.’
‘What do we do about the snakes?’ one of the male officers asked.
‘You can work on loading them – safely – as long as someone else is with you. I
