Public outrage followed after a video circulated on social media in January, showing a man abusing a Nile crocodile by kicking it on its head and hitting the animal in its mouth with a metal grass slasher. The man was arrested and scheduled to appear in the Thohoyandou Magistrate's Court on Monday, 17 February, but this never happened.
The man in the video was quickly identified as the self-proclaimed "King of Crocodile" of Duthuni, Mr Robert Munyai. Shortly afterwards, on 13 February,...