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Must be a strangler fig - don't know which species though (sycamore?) and the other tree looks dead.

Well done to craigsa for noting that it is some sort of fig , and then to Senyetse for nailing the answer , although you could have just stopped at strangler fig , as it is not a sycamore fig.

I would say you guys are close enough to the location , and it is just north of the Ntomeni spruit , where the river goes past the main tar road .

This is actually called the Strangler fig , or more commonly known as the "Common wild fig" , which very often starts life as a strangler before eventually overcoming its host , and standing on its own .
This one has grown up the trunk of an old leadwood , and it would be difficult to say if it managed to kill the leadwood , or if it just used the dead stump considering leadwood stumps stand so long.

Here is a link with some pics , scroll down to strangler figs .

This is the last of my pics and shows the root system very nicely growing around the base of the old stump that you can see part of on the left .

Fun quiz, bucky! I enjoyed it. Thanks.

So what now - who is going to carry on the legacy of this thread - we cant let die.

I have one, may I post it, Bucky?

I take no reply as a 'yes'

What are these and what has been eating them?

not an easy one freda....i'm gonna guess parts of an anthill first of all

Freda - doumbfounded -
looks like an anthill knobly thing - you mean these things have a name?

Gonna hit the books on this one.....

It is dung balls. Dung beetles bury these balls with their eggs inside. These hatch and the grub grows in to an adult dungbeetle inside this bal, eating it from inside..

These balls were dug up - most probably by a ratel (honey badger). They just love dung beetle grubs, and often dig in to middens and also dig up these buried balls which they locate through smell. It is actually not un-common to see these balls that has been dug up in the bush.

The inner layer is pure dung, while the outer layer is harder, and is a combination of dung and earth.

Imberbe has said it all.

Ah yes Imberbe...now i see it

Imberbe - thanks - never to old to learn I am

Spot on, Imberbe
Think we will have to ban you from these quizzes
Over to you!

Imberbe - You are so good with answers but it is now your turn to grace us with a question.