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Four years ago at Mpila camp at Hluhluwe / Imfolozi game park in Zululand we had a night straight from a horror movie (except it would have seemed a bit far fetched). In short a man tried to rob us and a hyena almost made a light snack of my sleeping children. We were staying in the tented camp. This …

  It was not a dark and stormy night.  It was a perfect summer evening in the African bush, which started with no hint of the chilling events which would transpire in the space of one hour of mayhem.  Our luxury tent at the unfenced Mpila camp in Hluhluwe-iMfolozi Park blended into the bush.  Our son Fjord was four then …