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Stranger than Fiction

THIS STORY IS almost unbelievable and I have hesitated to tell it for fear readers will regard it as fiction.

In 1966, as a 19-year-old in the old Rhodes a, having left England a year earlier to fulfil my boyhood dream of becoming nter and game warden, I was at last in the bush. I was posted to Essexvale, just outside Bulawayo; it was hardly the wilderness I longed for, being farming and tribal trust lands, but a step in the right direction. I

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