Eden recalled: Lioness, leopard, dog unlikely pals

One of the first things one notices when walking into the Mmegi newsroom is a framed copy of the September 20, 2013 Mmegi edition whose front page read: “Wena? O rua tau wena?”

The story was about government’s brash refusal to let Leganang Mutanzi, a Gumare farmer, capture some terror lions and tame them.  The story became political when it surfaced that the same government had however offered then cabinet minister, Christiaan de Graaff the right to keep lions at his leisure. The story later unfolded to the canned hunting of the lions and this piled pressure until government finally changed her policy towards predators in captivity by banning the practice.  So, naturally, when a lead came through of a couple rearing a lion on the outskirts of Gaborone, a Mmegi news team rushed out to investigate.