@Red Leg , South Africa's hunting industry, in particular, is much bigger than people make out. I've said this before, nearly every South African male has had some experience with hunting either directly or through someone else. It will eventually become part of the collective psyche. Regardless of whether or not foreigners stop coming here, our industry will go on because we enjoy hunting ourselves. The same thing with Botswana. Everyone went on about how hunting was "banned" completely ignoring the fact that ranch hunting was just fine and continued as it had decades prior. Yes, the prestige was temporarily gone but the actual hunting wasn't. Note the word "temporary". Hunting of dangerous game was unsuspended despite the UK media's objections.
I'm not "ignoring" the issues facing hunting, I'm very aware of them. I'm saying it's better to base your opinions on reality instead of immediately spreading doom and gloom. You can be aware of the anti-pressure but still have a level-headed approach to the issue. Your comments on the "white-dominated industry" are utterly false perpetuated by propaganda. The average black African couldn't give a rat's ass about whether a whitey is interested in a particular industry or not. Especially in the case of Botswana whose black citizens didn't have to struggle through Apartheid.
Don't base your opinions on social media vitriol. It's just doing what it's intended for, spreading sensation either through fear or any other possible method.
On the subject of British and SADC relations, don't you remember the fact there was a travel ban just because one of our scientists reported the presence of Omicron? Well, South Africa certainly does and we're not impressed with the UK's knee-jerk style of governance. Such bans can cause a ripple effect in peoples' opinions of said country. The Russian and American tensions happened primarily because the US still viewed the country with hostility, even after the USSR's fall. That's how Putin got elected, not because he was a good candidate but because Russia's view of America soured when it didn't need to. That's how the oligarchs got into power.