Snake ID please...

[drummer]

some good musking

i think baby ball is just warning incase it is an Atractaspis...it is not...you can see the tail length.

[babyball]

@JKA......Well absolutely nothing, I haven't heard of any wolf snake doing damage.... lol!
I'm just suggesting not to get too close in case it turns out to be something nasty which I highly doubt but the risk is real
@drummer......Thanks, learnt something new although I new it wasn't a Atractapis but now I know how to be double sure

[Fooble]

some good musking

have you done some research on snake musk yet?

[Mongoose]

It's a Wolf snake flattening it's body. It's common for them to do this as juveniles.

[Buck Rogers]

Whoop, whoop! I'd say a wolf snake...

[Bushviper]

Cape Wolf snakes are inclined to flatten the entire body like that when disturbed. I have never seen this behaviour in other black burrowing species. The jerky movements are also classic wolf snake movements. My money would be on Cape Wolf snake to the point where I would easily pick it up with my bare hands.

Saudisarah despite what all these people have been arguing about this does not help you. It is a non venomous snake which lives primarily on smooth scaled lizards and it kills then by constricting them. You can just pop it in the bush nearby or else if your dogs will not harm it you can leave it where it is.

[Snakes4Africa]

It is a Cape Wolf Snake. Lycophidion capensis. As BV says. There is no doubt. It cannot hurt you and is in fact disinclined to bite.