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‘Even though you might leave Africa, Africa never leaves you,’ says South African-born Julian Koski. He left South Africa for the US in the 1980s, but his vivid memories of his childhood safari holidays stayed with him. Now living with his wife Aida and raising their twins Leo and Tess, his thoughts turned again to his childhood memories of the South African wilderness. ‘I wanted to give them a piece of what I had growing up,’ he says. He saw the potential of a holiday home in a nature reserve to open up a new realm for them, a counterpoint to the privilege of

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