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Article: Game ranching pros and cons. (Column)
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- Sports Afield
- Article date:
- October 1, 1993
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In the native tongue of the Northern Transvaal, kwalata means "sable," the great black scimitar-horned antelope, the most African of African antelope. Kwalata is also the name of a ranch that, along with two other contiguous pieces of property, makes up a 170,000-acre private nature conservancy. Marginal agricultural land at best, until a few years ago cattle were raised here. With the cattle came an invasion of noxious brush and trees. Now all the cattle are gone, and in time wild animals will graze and browse the country back to its original state of savanna.
Sable--once numerous in these parts but now rare--have been brought here to help recreate that wild ...