‘Their magic is strong,’ Nomvula said without hesitation.
Sannie exhaled. ‘You think they make themselves invisible.’
‘Either that or their muthi makes your police officers, or the soldiers, confused, or they go somewhere else, when these men move at night.’
Sannie checked her notebook again. ‘You say the area where the girls went missing, this bad place, is near the border of the Sabi Sand reserve?’
Nomvula nodded. ‘Yes, it is close.’
‘We’ve had extra patrols along the perimeter fence, private anti-poaching patrols on the reserve’s side and police on this side.’
‘See? Like I said, even with all your extra people patrolling, the tsotsis are able to get past them.’
That was true, Sannie admitted to herself. Even Julianne Clyde-Smith’s intensively patrolled and monitored property, Lio
