“Women can keep secrets!” Felicia releases a high-pitched belly laugh that has her bent double in her camouflage military uniform. “Men like to drink, and sell their secrets,” she elaborates, now with an undertone of sadness.
We’re standing in a map-lined operations room at the Black Mambas headquarters in South Africa’s Greater Kruger National Park and I’ve just asked why this 36-strong group of women solely recruits females to keep the Olifants West Nature Reserve residents out of harm’s reach. A fact, by the way, that makes this the world’s first all-female anti-poaching unit.
