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Author's Notes You don’t find the story; the story finds you.   Between December 2012 and December 2013, approximately 1004 rhino were poached in South Africa. The Kruger National Park (KNP), South Africa’s biggest national reserve, experienced the majority of these killings. Not only is KNP home to the largest rhino population in South Africa, but its vast geographic range, and proximity to the Mozambican border - a key trafficking route - make it an ideal hunting ground for poachers. KwaZulu-Natal, also home...

Excerpt. © All rights reserved. The Leopard in the Lala (Prologue & Chapter 1) Maybe he was a tsotsi? February 2013 ‘Yoh, yoh, yoh!’ Baba Khumalo extended an arm to prevent his first wife from moving any closer to the body. What he could see of it was a bloody mess, and the smell of bodily fluids was overwhelming in the heat. The buzz of flies was as intense as the torrent of prayers falling from his wife’s mouth. ‘Stay here,’ he instructed her, before...