Face to face with a leopard

Man fights off wild cat in five-minute scrap

A routine Saturday afternoon checking on the cattle grazing at a nearby water hole disintegrated into a life-and-death fight with an angry leopard for a Matopi man recently.

40-year-old Bashi Kobo was mauled by the savage wild cat, surviving the five-minute ordeal to tell his story.

"I was walking close to a foothill when I heard a growl. It was so intense I fell to the ground in fear," recalls the bandaged warrior, speaking to The Voice from his yard in Mauteng ward on Friday, six days after his scrap in the wild.

The father-of-...