A South African facing 1,600 criminal charges at home has been ordered out of a lucrative Botswana hunting concession by the community. He doesn't want to go anywhere. Dawie Groenewald - convicted in the US in 2010 for smuggling a leopard skin into the country, and facing 1,600 charges in South Africa related to rhino poaching, trafficking, racketeering and money-laundering - has been ordered to leave a lucrative trophy-hunting concession in Botswana's Okavango Delta by the community whose ancestral land it is. The San's ultimatum came after it emerged that Groenewald had been operating on the concession near Shakawe since October 2024 without consulting the roughly 2,500 San residents of Tobere. A Botswana High Court order, issued in November, had already told his company - DK Superior (Pty) Ltd, registered in Polokwane - to cease hunting and vacate. Groenewald is ignoring that, too. Asked for his response, he shifts responsibility. "All these problems and stupid resolutions are Leon's work," he says in an online interview, blaming Leon Zille, the director of rival operator Old Man's Pan, whose lease was terminated to make way for his own. "But let's wait, get the popcorn and watch the movie. Just wait and see." The dispute is the latest chapter in a saga that Currency has been following since January, when it reported that the community had accused Groenewald of allegedly using the political influence of former Botswana justice minister Machana Ronald Shamukuni to secure the concession over the objections of community members who cited his criminal record. Set deep in the Okavango, the NG13 concession has a hunting quota that includes lions, leopards, buffalo and 25 elephants – with elephant hunts marketed at about $90,000 per kill. For a remote community where formal employment is scarce, it is one of the few significant income streams tied to the land. That community has now gone two consecutive seasons - 2024 and 2025 - without receiving the benefits it is owed.