  The MeerKAT telescope is a precursor experiment to the full Square Kilometre
Array. The latter's potential to explore the nature of dark matter, via
indirect detection, has received attention previously in the literature. In
this work, we demonstrate the potential of MeerKAT to make initial forays into
the dark matter parameter space through a Stimela-based simulation framework.
In particular, we show that 20 hr MeerKAT observations at U- and L-band of the
dwarf galaxy Reticulum II can improve the constraints on WIMP dark matter by a
factor of 3 compared to current gamma-ray observations. Furthermore, these
MeerKAT constraints are an order magnitude better than Fermi-LAT estimates from
similar galaxies.
