Serious game, hunted the right way

You hunt one on one with your PH, on foot when the ground allows it, with trained trackers reading the veld ahead of you.

JVZ Safaris hunts private concessions in the Waterberg and around Thabazimbi, ground chosen for the abundance of game, the variety of species and the calibre of trophies it produces. Because there is only ever one group in camp, the pace of the safari is yours: glass from a ridge all morning, follow a track until it makes sense, or spend the last hour of light at a waterhole.

Jacques hosts and guides every safari personally. His career spans two decades of professional hunting, including twelve years running his own big game concessions in Mozambique, on elephant, leopard, lion and buffalo. That experience sets the standard for how JVZ hunts everything, from a duiker to a buffalo bull.

And it is done the way he was raised to do it: the traditional Afrikaans way. You walk, you track, you put in the hard hours, and you take your trophy fairly and with respect for the animal. The fire at night is earned, not scheduled. That is the way of the Boer, a hunting tradition handed down father to son for nearly four centuries.

Guide and guest, last light