FAREWELL TO A FRIEND
It is funny how certain people have an influence on your life. Some drift past, like ships passing in the night, while others linger a while and make life easier (or sometimes more difficult!) and then abruptly disappear from the scene. Others, though, leave a lasting impression and when they move on, leave a void that cannot be filled again.
One such person that left an unfillable void in my life was Barry George Style. Barry was a professional hunter with Buffalo Range Safaris, one of the original four safari companies licensed by the then-Rhodesian Government. The company was started by Barry’s late father, Clive, and in addition to hunting on Buffalo Range, the Style family’s 85 000-acre farm in the Rhodesian lowveld near Chiredzi, also offered hunting over the years in parts of the Zambezi Valley and other parts of the country.
A FIRST MEETING
I first met Barry in 2010 through a mutual Australian friend. One thing quickly led to another, and later in that year I found myself around a campfire with Barry in the Chiredzi River Conservancy (of which
