Krakow Kid,
The Boer Wars(2 different ones) were interesting times, but you need to go back before then and read about the "Trecks"? and the settlement of the Transvaal and Orange Free State. We somehow get the idea that only British WH(PH) and their clients ever killed any thing in Africa.Settlers,farmers,and natives had to use whatever they could to protect their families and livestock.Pygmies in the Ituri killed elephants with a little bitty bow and arrow.Sometimes it only took 2or3 days for the poison to work.
Mike