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When Sipho Khumalo walked through his half-hectare maize field near Mgampodo stream, he found the crop he had hoped would feed his family flattened and eaten. He and other residents along Eswatini’s southern border say bush pigs, warthogs and other wildlife crossing from nearby Harloo Private Game Reserve in South Africa have repeatedly destroyed crops and killed livestock — losses for which they say no one compensates them.

Abandoned by the State: Living alongside wildlife, bearing the costs By Vuyisile Hlatshwayo Wildlife moving from the direction of Harloo Private Reserve in KwaZulu-Natal has, residents say, repeatedly crossed into Eswatini, destroying crops and killing livestock in four communities along the southern border. The reserve’s own price list shows hunters are charged as...