The flesh around the bite was necrotising – dying. The process gives off a smell like rotting meat. The only treatment that could hold off the damage was snake antivenom. Kamidikolo (60), a handyman ...

One local snake catcher spent his Valentine’s evening wooing a black mamba out of the roof of a home in Mtubatuba. Frighteningly, the 2m snake – reportedly a long-term roof resident – was just a few ...