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Article: Ridgetop recluse: a huge bushbuck interrupts a kudu that high on mountain in KwaZulu-Natal.
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- Sports Afield
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- November 1, 2005
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I had kudu on the brain, and it was like a sickness. No amount of Dr. Van Tonder's nor Dr. Joubert's Magical African Elixir would remedy it.
"You must get high for the kudu in the early morning," PH Pierre Van Tonder told me. "Kudu come into the clearings to get the first rays of sun. They get cold overnight in the winter."
So each day we were up well before dawn, hiking high into the hills. I just had to get that kudu. On day four of my safari, PH Leon Joubert, known as Spyker, and I were sweating in the chilled air as we climbed high into the mountains of Kwaggashoek. The group also included Monte Pienaar, the land manager; two game trackers, Isak and ...
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