Legend has it that when South African statesman Paul Kruger fell out with any of his awkward political chums, they were despatched in no short order to a farm on the barely hospitable Waterberg plateau. Such was their disgrace.
Dry and rocky, it was a nightmare to cultivate and, just to make matters worse, intensive cattle farming proceeded to wreak havoc with Limpopo's rolling grasslands. Not surprisingly, it wasn't long before the native wildlife population was decimated.
Fast forward to the 21st century, however, and