Unfortunately RSA has the worst record by far for leopard hunting cons and probably one of the lowest success rates for genuine leopard hunts. RSA farmers have spent the last 100+ years killing leopards by any means they can. That has resulted in very clever leopards.

There are so many charlatans, tricksters & con men in the leopard business in RSA it's not worth even considering. For anyone looking for a fair and honest leopard hunt they should look to Namibia, Tanzania, Zimbabwe or pretty much anywhere else except RSA.

RSA is great for plains game and Rhino darting, but for Dangerous Game I would reccommend any hunter to look elsewhere.

Iqbal, I'm a member of PHASA myself..... so perhaps this is the wrong medium to air my views.... but here it is anyway! To be frank I have very little time for PHASA anymore. They seem to have been taken over by outfitters and now (IMHO) treat the PH members as second class citizens..... It's more like the outfitters association than the Professional Hunter's Association. This to me creates a major conflict of interests. Your friend will probably achieve a great deal more if he complains to the relevant Game Conservancy direct as they are the guys who issue the Professional Hunter and Outfitter with their licences.....and in most provinces it's actually illegal for a PH to hunt a leopard (whether he shoots one or not) without a licence and also illegal for an outfitter to offer a leopard hunt for sale before he has a leopard licence!