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.