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Limpopo man on horror hyena attack: ‘ I realised something was eating me right there and then’

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Trust Ndlovu, a game-farm security guard, has undergone extensive reconstructive surgery since he was brutally attacked by a hyena. (PHOTO: Supplied)
Trust Ndlovu, a game-farm security guard, has undergone extensive reconstructive surgery since he was brutally attacked by a hyena. (PHOTO: Supplied)

The left side of his face, his head and his shoulder are a mass of scars and a thick ridge of flesh covers the area where his eye should be.

The wounds tell of a night of horror and trauma – a night a predator stepped out of the shadows and attacked him as he lay sleeping on a sweltering bushveld night.

It’s a miracle he’s alive, Trust Ndlovu says. The 38-year-old dad of two was working as a security guard on a game farm near Musina in Limpopo where wild animals were treated with utmost respect. This was their territory and humans and animals kept their dis­tance from one another.

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