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Lucky escape for SA couple in leopard attack

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A terrified South African couple fought off a hungry leopard with a pillow, a paperback copy of Michael Pollan’s Cooked and determined fists, and survived to tell the tale.

Retired SAA pilot Gavin Allderman and his partner Jill Sheard, both 67, were on holiday in the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park in Botswana when the beast thought they looked good enough to eat and tried to claw its way into their rooftop tent where they were chilling with their books.

Speaking to the Sunday Tribune Allderman said he had spotted

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